[EAS] So THERE !!!

[Clay Freinwald]

The problem is that 'John Q' has no clue where he is in reference to the TV
(or radio for that matter) transmitter.    He could be behind a hill in a
shadow area expecting reception that he will never get.

If you are in a major city, like NYC or Chicago, where the transmitters are
downtown on building tops - This is great.   But if you are in the
flat-lands where transmitters are located on tall towers outside of town,
that's another.   If you are in a mountain filled area - Good luck.

The assumptions being made by these technophobes is scary.   Still think
this might be about trying to make political 'brownie points'

Clay

Exactly why I mentioned the absence of headphone jacks on the latest Apple,
Samsung and HTC products, and will be dumped from the next LG and Google
Pixel phones.  Which makes it a serious problem for an application reliant
on a headphone jack to serve as a mobile antenna.

Now, here's a different concept - for TV rather than radio on smartphones.
One little startup came up with a very cool add-on for smartphones ... to
put broadcast TV on the device.  https://quarterback.airwavz.tv/.  Still
hasn't hit the marketplace yet, but  I played with a beta version last year,
deep inside a building downtown DC.  And I was very surprised at the number
of TV channels it picked up.  Yes, it's more "portable" than mobile, given
ATSC 1.0's limitations on mobility, but it is rather neat nonetheless.