[BC] RE: The Future of EAS

[Tom Taggart]

1.  Cell-phone alerts.  This is fine if you can opt out of being alerted.   
Many volunteer fire departments now use auto-dialers to alert their  
responders.  It would not make sense to me to have an emergency responder  
miss an alert on his cellphone because the system is jammed up with a  
severe thunderstorm alrt from two counties over.  And yes, given the  
natural tendency of bureucracies, given an inch, to grab a mile and start  
charging toll, we will have overuse of the system. (See #3, BELOW).

2.  Satellite fed warnings.  Watch, big brother will get you. The folks in  
Washington will want us to install satellite receivers at our transmitter  
sites so the bureaucrats can push a button and be on 13,000 stations at  
once.

3.  "All Hazards Radio" (which is already being use instead of national  
weather service on some of their stations in  our area) will never be more  
than a bad joke, even with some kind of satellite fed back-bone, unless  
there is someone with intelligence running the operation.  I still get  
emergency messages with no message from Pittsburgh NWS (header, pause,  
eom).  Gave up talking to a brick wall.

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