[LINK] home emergencies

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

>> Right now and by next summer, one guesses that many Aussies will
>> like Tom's idea of home-emergency CB-radios for essential services.
>> Your own in-home police/fire/ambulance/anti-terror/power/phone/medical
>> communications device, for a once-off hundred dollars? You'd want one?
>
> I'm sure they would. It's a very attractive idea.. It just won't have
> any actual, practical effect .. no-one is suggesting they be two-way
> (are they?!?) Just exaggerating for effect. It's still a bad idea.

Certainly an exaggerated response to genuine efforts to save lives still
the purely-personal no-proof effort to respond's appreciated thanks Karl

Last time i used one battery CB radios will reliably get signal through
when phone and power etc are down, and yes, they are definitely two way

For many years Taxi systems used radio in mission-sort-of-critical jobs
with little black boxes that identified individual senders, and allowed
selective & private two-way communications. An existing reliable system
that works, cheap & basically low-tech.  Living in the sticks, I'd have
one tomorrow, if it meant that good old Jason, out town cop, could make 
contact with us en-masse about anything he might want to. And being two
way, selectively and securely, it *would* save lives in medical moments.

But we know you won't agree.. you prefer the stay in your home and pray
and dont put any hope at all in any technology approach. Hmm might work.
Note, just being sarcastic in return, and also offering no proof at all
regarding home-emergency communications instead of simply smoke-signals


Cheers,
Stephen