[EAS] Fwd: [ChicagolandSkywarn] WEA Enabled Phones to Receive Emergency Messages

[Adrienne Abbott]

The other ugly little secret to the whole FM-on-your-cell-phone proposal is
that the FM radio component only works with those screwy little ear phone
attachments. Your blue tooth "ear weenie" isn't going to do any good. So,
how many of you actually know where your cell phone ear phones are? If we
get hit with a fire or tornado or some other warning, it's going to take me
several minutes to grab my purse out of my desk and pull my ear phones out
of it and stick them in the phone and my ears, bring up the radio and dial
around to a local station that's got some news of the warning that's now 8
minutes old. Meanwhile, the guy in the next cube who shouldn't be allowed
more than 10 inches of dental floss at any given time is still scrambling
around in his briefcase forgetting that his dog ate the ear phones 3 months
ago...I'll have better luck with the email or text messages I get from our
radio and TV stations now than fumbling around trying to find someone who's
still talking about that EAS activation.

Adrienne Abbott
Nevada EAS Chair
"Radio burps, it cries, it needs to be fed all the time, it requires
constant attention, but we love it." Jim Aaron WGLN 

-----Original Message-----
From: eas-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:eas-bounces at radiolists.net] On
Behalf Of Clay Freinwald
Emergency Messages

OK...So I have a cell phone with an FM Radio in it.....In this market we
have about 30 FM signals...How am I going to know which station will have
emergency information for my location?
By the time I tuned through the band the one or two stations that -might -
break programming to air it was have already done so.

I can understand the advantage of having FM in cell phones, however, there
is a lot more work to  be done to make this a viable means of providing
citizens with emergency information.
Perhaps it would have been smarter to have them able to receive NWR.   At
least they won't be ignoring life-saving messages so they can play the hits.

Clay Freinwald

This confirms what I have long believed: The majority of cell carriers will
not do anything in the public interest unless they're dragged into it
kicking and screaming. More justification for FM in phones.

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