[BC] Evansville Tornado

[Ron Cole]

The best solution is a Broadcast solution. Cell systems have to Page each
phone individually to alert them. Paging channels are slow so paging all the
phones in an emergency would take some time. Probably too much time.

Ron


On 11/7/05, Barry Mishkind <barry at oldradio.com> wrote:
>
> At 09:52 AM 11/7/2005, Scott Cason wrote
> > >>What would have been really effective is a
> >reverse 911 if that can be executed fast enough...(well, probably
> >not).
> >
> >And an even better solution is having an NOAA weather radio.
>
> Of course. But just as the radio industry
> resisted buying EAS boxes, consumers
> have been VERY slow to buy the
> existing receivers.
>
> On the other hand, there are plenty of
> cell phones on hand!
>
>
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