A real EAS system

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

NBC reports that in Israel they have a silent radio channel that only comes
on when there is emergency information.  At times of crisis, like these,
Israelis are told to leave the radio on that channel when they go to bed and
emergency information will be broadcast when needed  -- waking up those that
have left the radio on.

I have always thought that the EAS system would be useless in the middle of
the night when most people are asleep.  The Israelis have thought of a way
to solve that problem.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine