[BC] Yes, EAS works!

[Broadcast List USER]

I go to sleep nearly every day.  How does having a radio or TV on get  
around that?

Southern Maryland and the are across the river in Virginia have a lot  
of mobile homes.  God hates mobile homes, which is the reason for  
tornados.  These areas are in the DC Metro.  There can be tornados on  
the ground, and the DC TV stations will not sound duck farts.  They  
put three to five beeps on the program audio, then just run a crawl.   
They don't want to interrupt programming!

I do realize that stations in tornado country do a better job than DC  
stations.

As I wrote yesterday, only two stations (well, both have more than one  
transmitter) sound duck farts.  They are both LP-1s.  So, unless you  
tune to one of them, an EAS receiver, if they were actually available,  
wouldn't work.

I have two NOAA Weather Radios, one tuned to the Manassas, VA  
transmitter, and one tuned to the fairly new DC transmitter.  They  
transmit the same information, but it is a form of redundancy for us.   
If one transmitter fails, we still have the other receiver.

One receiver cost just under $50, but it includes a WWVL receiver, so  
it is also a very accurate clock.  The other one cost just under $14.   
EVERYONE should have a NOAA WX Radio, and at $14 they are very  
affordable.

As an aside, the Manassas transmitter is 1 kW, and runs into a 10 dBd  
antenna.  That is 10kW of narrow band FM, or basically the coverage of  
a 100 kW FM station.  They even have a back-up transmitter and  
antenna.  I have only visited one other NOAA transmitter, in  
Washington, just north of The Dales, OR.  It was very low power, but  
really high.  The radio station that used to own the site before the  
station was moved from The Dales to Covington, WA, gave NOAA the site  
as they cried poor.  The site was given back to the land owner, so I  
have no idea what is there now.

--chip

On Jun 15, 2012, at 8:00 AM, broadcast-request at radiolists.net wrote:

> Message: 18
> From: Robert Meuser <robertm at nyc.rr.com>
>
>    From:
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> If those people did not have a TV or Radio turned on, it is their
> problem. If they did not have a radio or TV turned on then EAS would  
> be
> useless. If they choose not to be informed then why should we pour  
> money
> into trying to help themselves despite their resistance? Stupid people
> cost society too much money.
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