[BC] UK gets strange digital law

[Jerry Mathis]

This shows the consequences of POLITICS triumphing over COMMON SENSE. We are in line for the same thing in this country. Time and time again I read where the local (and national, for that matter) Emergency Management Agencies are equipping their staff with CELLULAR PHONES as the primary means of communications, and relying on the Internet for long-distance communications. Anyone with ANY lucidity knows that, almost no matter what kind of disaster, cellphones and Internet service are the FIRST things to quit working. They've set themselves up to be the biggest victim of a catastrophe!
 
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Jerry Mathis
 
When looking for replacement brains, the most expensive are Politician's brains. Why? First, they are hardly used. And second, do you know how many Politicians it takes to get an ounce of brains?
 

 
On 4/9/10, Kevin Raper <kj4hyd at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 4/9/2010 3:39 PM, Barry Mishkind wrote:
>> The lame-duck UK Parliament has decided to kill off analog broadcasting in five years:
>>

>From another list I am on:

>I HAVE THE SOLUTION!!!

>It is a terrible solution but... IT WORKS!!!

>Guess which was the best seller device in the last month here in Chile (after the mega earthquake)...

>THE OLD STANDARD BATTERY ANALOG RADIO TUNER, WITH AM!!!!!!!

>Why? Because:

>1) Cellular phones didn't work.

>2) Digital media (Internet, etc.) didn't work.

>3) The power electric lines collapsed so... there wasn't electricity almost all over the country!!!

>4) The only one operative service was... THE OLD ANALOG BROADCASTING RADIOS (AM and FM) AND TV CHANNELS (here we still have analog NTSC service). Of course, the old radio ham service was operative all the time. We could know about the first, and second, and third tsunami waves because a brave ham from "Constitución" (one of the very devastated cities near the central earthquake point), even the fact the local government didn't know about this (they didn't have direct communication with the sea coast zone because the cellphones weren't operative, it was a very exasperating situation).

>SO... The solution is a very huge, mega, earthquake in the area of the FCC central office!!! Then they will understand (maybe) what important and serviceable is the old analog radio communication system.

>Of course, it is a pity that office is in a very crowd area. Maybe we could invite the FCC people to Chile to learn about this problem, "in situ".

>GOD BLESS YOU ALL!!!!!!!

>Juan J. Paredes G.
>> From Curicó, Chile, South America, with a lot of love and hope (and some aftershocks from time to time).

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>73,
>Kevin Raper
>KJ4HYD
>CE WCKI WQIZ