ATSC 3.0-Based First Responder Pager System

[KQA726]

What are they smoking? Takes MINUTES, BS. It takes all of 20 seconds to use a nice smoking 300W VHF pager to cover a nice area with a good signal. Minutes, they must be thinking of how long it takes for an EAS message to ever make it out over a broadcast radio station??
You know why paging has been the same for 50 years? BECAUSE it WORKS....leave it alone.

 

[krokus]

Except that's what they're doing everywhere. Lots of places using a public cell network. And the very least non-emergency users would be bumped off in an actual emergency.

They are using it as a supplement, not primary. (In most cases. I have no doubt that places have started to use cellular as primary, and that will cause problems in a SHTF time.)

Most networks do not have a public safety preemptive capability, the public safety users are just users.