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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. On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 10:27:09 -0700, Richard Clark wrote: 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?" No one, in the end, will care about that, Richard, it's buzz words. The economic hooks are in lessened liabilities and coordinating better emergency evac and site control plans. Money talks here. 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. That piece is a given, no argument there, the AM/FM piece is just one more way to insure commo. 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. Yes, but as we recently saw, things left to the "if come" often don't "come" ask FEMA. The plan needs to be in place and the control out of the hands of anyone except local/reg/national authority. 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. Nothing wrong with that if you know where to tune. I don't, come to think of it. 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 MOF, it's an idea that came up over dinner during FEMA/NOLA, don't know about the sirens, all I do know is once FEMA got there, they shutdown most commo inc police in some cases. They want total control so this p[iece has more play at the immediate response (local/state) levels. -- Drop the alphabet for email |
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