Former FEMA Leaders Continue Push for AM (radio) Preservation in EVs

[Zoidz]

RadioWorld - "On Feb. 26, seven former leaders of the Federal Emergency Management Agency penned a letter to Secretary Pete Buttigieg of the Department of Transportation advocating for the preservation of the senior band and urging regulators to take action to protect the nation’s public safety."

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[COdogman]

If they don’t add AM I think they should add an emergency/ weather band.

 

[CharonPDX]

My BMW i3 came with "no AM radio". But the head unit was the same head unit as many ICE BMWs deep down, so it was possible to use a coding tool to enable the AM portion. I did.

The signal was atrocious. Direct line of sight to the transmitter, maybe 4 miles away, it on one hilltop, me on another hilltop. VERY strong transmitter (one of the main AM stations in a "top 25" US city.) It sounded like a crappy handheld transistor radio from dozens of miles away.

Still, it was better than nothing to listen to my sportsball games. (Until the AM station later got simulcast on an HD-2 feed of an FM station.)

 

[Riviot]

We were sitting in a cell dead zone outside Snoqualmie the other day during heavy snow, stuck in traffic for 90 minutes because a semi jackknifed on an overpass. We wanted to tune in to the AM channel on the flashing sign, but alas...

 

[WSea]

I’d be more concerned about getting latest emergency info out on twitter. That site is so messed up now

 

[Zoidz]

I’d be more concerned about getting latest emergency info out on twitter. That site is so messed up now

Their concern is a scenario where your cellphone does not/will not/cannot get info, either due to a cellular system collapse, or an internet collapse. Could be a manmade SHTF scenario, or natural such as a Carrington Event type Coronal Mass Ejection, which scientists say may have a 2% chance of occuring by 2029.

 

[WSea]

Their concern is a scenario where your cellphone does not/will not/cannot get info, either due to a cellular system collapse, or an internet collapse. Could be a manmade SHTF scenario, or natural such as a Carrington Event type Coronal Mass Ejection, which scientists say may have a 2% chance of occuring by 2029.

I think radios would be f’d in that event too

 

[Zoidz]

I think radios would be f’d in that event too

Yeah, there's extensive debate as to how much damage a Carrington Event would really cause to modern day power & internet infrastructure, and radio receivers. Lab simulations are one thing, real world is another. There's never been a modern day event even close to the 1859 event, so who knows?

 

[WSea]

Yeah, there's extensive debate as to how much damage a Carrington Event would really cause to modern day power & internet infrastructure, and radio receivers. Lab simulations are one thing, real world is another. There's never been a modern day event even close to the 1859 event, so who knows?

Fried telegraphs?

 

[Zoidz]

Fried telegraphs?

In 1859, yes. Today the damage would be in the trillions just in the US:
"In June 2013, a joint venture from researchers at Lloyd's of London and Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER) in the US used data from the Carrington Event to estimate the cost of a similar event in the present to the US alone at US$600 billion to $2.6 trillion (equivalent to $698 billion to $3.02 trillion in 2021[28]),[3] which, at the time, equated to roughly 3.6 to 15.5 per cent of annual GDP. "

 

[Count Orlok]

doesn't everyone travel with one of these? https://ccrane.com/cc-skywave-ssb-2-with-am-fm-sw-wx-and-aviation-bands

 

[racekarl]

My I-pace has AM radio and, as expected, it does not work very well in an EV. I imagine there would be a lot of engineering required to make AM widely useful in a BEV.

 

[Zoidz]

doesn't everyone travel with one of these? https://ccrane.com/cc-skywave-ssb-2-with-am-fm-sw-wx-and-aviation-bands

I have one of these:
https://www.tecsun-radios.com/product/h-501/

 

[Riviot]

Their concern is a scenario where your cellphone does not/will not/cannot get info, either due to a cellular system collapse, or an internet collapse. Could be a manmade SHTF scenario, or natural such as a Carrington Event type Coronal Mass Ejection, which scientists say may have a 2% chance of occuring by 2029.

... Wouldn't the entire truck be fried?

Wait, what's 2% risk of losing a $90k asset?!

 

[SANZC02]

doesn't everyone travel with one of these? https://ccrane.com/cc-skywave-ssb-2-with-am-fm-sw-wx-and-aviation-bands

I keep this in our emergency kit.

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