You think that's bad? How about the A Number One Key Emergency Radio System, the one operated by the US Government specifically (in part) as an emergency alert system, the one that many, make that MANY, companies, people, utilities, governments, sirens, and _other_ radio stations slave off of ...
... has NO backup power in 1/4 of its locations?
I'm referring to the NOAA (formerly "weather bureau") radio network.
I noticed that their transmitters covering NYC were off the air in the
2003 blackout. I've been looking into this and have recently gotten the figures that about _one quarter_ of their transmitters will go dead when utility power cuts out.Not very shmmmarrrtttt, is it.
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