Re: A real EAS system

[Aaron Read <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 12:13 AM 3/20/2003 -0500, David Moisan wrote:
>At 10:41 PM 3/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>Better still would be to encourage more people to get a alerting weather 
>radio and to pass on EAS alerts to NWS.  I believe they already do 
>this.  My weather radio is *quite* capable of waking me in the middle of 
>the night before I hear any thunder.
>
>Take care,
>Dave


Not a bad idea, but the problem is that Weatherradio reception is a dodgy 
proposition in most areas.  Weatherradios (in New England at least) were 
originally optimized for sailors, so usually you can get reception along 
the coast no problem.   But go inland and it's anybody's guess.



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