[EAS] HD developer proposal for EAS

[Dave Kline]

Adrienne, I resemble those remarks. ;-)
I don't normally carry a cell phone. My wife's pseudo-smart, Trac-phone is a POS. I'm shopping for a flip phone replacement with a physical dial-pad that doesn't go away when you need it the most. But hey! Seven bucks a month? You can't complain, though I do anyway. Still have a landline and the shop phone has a wire going to the wall.
I do own a Win-10 computer! And a couple of flat panel TV's but no more government cheese converters. The last one went away at the big garage sale. Though recently my former (now retired boss) was looking for one. He had some idea about OTA reception and needed an old converter and a VHS recorder. Old engineers never die. They just get even whackier ideas than when they were working.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 7:54 PM Adrienne Abbott <nevadaeas at charter.net> wrote:
>The problem is that we are creating a two-tiered society: the Informed and
>the Less-Than-Informed. The Informed, with their HD Radios, Smartphones and
>next-gen TV's will not only know that there is an emergency, they will know
>what it is, where it is and what to do about it. The Less-Than-Informed will
>know, at best, that there is a problem.

>Unfortunately, warning systems will still have to cater to the lowest common
>denominator to make sure everyone gets the information.

>Think of your family and the people you know...some of them don't have cell
>phones or computers and don't intend to ever own either one. Some still have
>flip phones and don't intend to upgrade. Some are still watching analog TV
>with a converter box and rabbit ears. Some avoid Social Media like the
>plague. Some have 4K TV's, terabyte computers and iPhone X Max's...we are
>trying to reach everyone with the same platform.

>Adrienne

>Adrienne Abbott, W6BCY
>Nevada EAS Chair

>-----Original Message-----
>From: EAS <eas-bounces at radiolists.net> On Behalf Of Clay Freinwald

>The advantage of being this old is that I vividly recall the same things

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