[BC] FEMA

[Rich Wood]

------ At 10:03 AM 11/29/2005, Dave Orienti wrote: -------

>Question to the brain trust out there.  In the past several months, 
>we have been "moved" off of several frequencies in the 5 and 7 MHZ 
>international shortwave broadcast band by FEMA reserving those 
>frequencies.  Not only do they want the frequency, they want a 
>"guard band" about a mile on either side.  Anybody know what's going on.

They're desperate. The biggest technological complaint is that they 
can't communicate. I guess they figure that the heat will be off if 
they're perceived to be doing something about it. Unfortunately, they 
need to communicate within a few miles, not throughout the world. Why 
not just take the facilities of the VOA? They're in place. They cover 
the world and the Cold War is over. One of the major drawbacks is 
getting handheld 100KW transceivers so they can communicate with the 
Grim Reaper Heading Homeland Security in Washington.

Rich

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