[BC] Tornado hits ERI's old area

[Bernie Courtney]

so now despite the fact that after god knows how many years the folks at NWS
still can't get an EAS test/alert sent out right, we are now going to give
them a new technology to learn, one that gives direct pipe into the homes of
thousands of people, awaken them in the middle of the night, and send them
running for cover fearing some impending doom--- all because somebody
pressed the wrong button running an overnight test.

no thanks.

On 11/7/05, Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com> wrote:
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> At 06:04 AM 11/7/2005, Mike McCarthy wrote
> >Problem is the CO switch probably could not handle tens of thousands
> >of calls at once. Limited call outs like the FD example are limited
> >to maybe 100 calls. Then comes the who gets called first and how
> >that is determined on less than a few seconds questions.
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> Simple answer: Cell phones all monitor the
> cell site whenever turned on. Simply
> have each cell phone "listen" for alert
> codes - not unlike EAS actually - and
> the equivalent of, say, TOR just makes
> all phones RING (regardless of vibration
> setting) and display TORNADO! or
> perhaps the location.
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