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On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 11:28:32 -0400, Ari Silversteinn
wrote: Yes, the budget is rich with expected legal expenses. Since DHS has become a player in this, we are hopeful that we can get the necessary punch to overcome FCC and statutory issues. Hi Ari, The various pieces of this jigsaw puzzle is beginning to reveal a picture here. With the introduction of two governmental organizations, and their regulations, your "plan" has all the appearances of being suitably crafted to work on paper. It responds to the individual issues that any squinty-eyed bureaucrat would demand be satisfied for his postage sized turf, but in the overall it would fail miserably, or drive costs so high as to be tainted with the plea that "aren't people's lives worth the price?" Let's see, the original spec calls for a disaster situation that is confined to within 1 mile; that demands the local population be informed; that over-rides their usual paths of communication; that reaches them even when they are not engaged in listening. As already pointed out, big sound trucks do wonders, and have worked well since the beginning of the last century for this purpose. That kids inside their home can hear the ice-cream truck a mile away is a testimony to this simplicity. Knocking on the door of the local broadcasters and commandeering their air-time has a time honored tradition of working quite well too. This involves no more time than getting that expensive mobile power plant rigged with wide band transmitters working into hugely lossy antenna systems into the same danger area. After-all, you could as easily call the first most obvious radio station as them, and you could be calling the others before they even got on the road. The solution demanded is that all radio stations respond to a disaster network alert and citizens tune to the Civil Defense frequency when so warned by them. Is this another administration cut-back that was shelved as one of those unnecessary "entitlements?" Have they clipped all the wires to those old Air Raid sirens? When did the lights go out in FEMA? 73's Richard Clark, KB7QHC |
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