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Blackouts & Radio

Even my ~$35 flipphone has an FM radio - maybe produce some public service ads about what to do when the power is off, the cell network is down and even landline phones don't work - try to tune in radio stations using your cell phone (maybe some kind of silly catchphrase: Radio = Life).


Kirk Bayne
 
kfbkfb said:
Even my ~$35 flipphone has an FM radio - maybe produce some public service ads about what to do when the power is off, the cell network is down and even landline phones don't work - try to tune in radio stations using your cell phone (maybe some kind of silly catchphrase: Radio = Life).
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Practically no current cellphone has radio. The Apple ones have no way to add radio as there is no phone jack (the cable is the antenna) and a number of new models from other sources have no phone jack any more.

Telling people to use their phone as a radio has two issues: first, most can't get radio anyway and, second, using the phone that way rapidly discharges its battery and in an emergency, most people will have no way to charge batteries.
 
It's really better to just get emergency messages to phones, instead of "buy a long wave radio, then a medium wave radio, keep batteries nearby, stand on your head, try to tune in a station 500 miles away, oh and try to find shortwave too"
 
gr8oldies said:
It's really better to just get emergency messages to phones, instead of "buy a long wave radio, then a medium wave radio, keep batteries nearby, stand on your head, try to tune in a station 500 miles away, oh and try to find shortwave too"
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A better action would be to suggest that everyone have at home one of those backup charger batteries. Some will give multiple recharges to a phone, and they are inexpensive. We have several, and they sit in the same place in the house as our family printers.
 
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