Words of Advice:
"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne
“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *
"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown
“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie
"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul
"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad
"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown
"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers
"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown
"Eck!" -- George the Cat
* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone
2 comments:
It used to be called the Emergency Broadcast System, and was run out of a bunker in Colorado. Now it's the Emergency Alert System and comprises two heavily fortified containers at transmitter sites around the nation, but has some issues in that someone has to go out to the tower and physically turn on the EAS generator and physically connect the EAS transmitter to the tower to override the signal. The next generation is supposed to deal with that.
That said, I just read the Army spec, and they're full of shit. There are software defined frequency-hopping wide band radios, yes. An iPhone is one of them, for example. But there aren't *high powered* software defined frequency-hopping wide band radios, other than the specialized ones created for radar systems. All COTS radio gear capable of putting out the 10,000 to 100,000 watts of a commercial radio station has tube finals because there are no semiconductors capable of handling the wattage, and is capable of handling only a single frequency at a time. Where multiple frequencies are transmitted through one antenna, multiple transmitters and a large plenum are needed (the plenum is to prevent one transmitter's output from feeding back into another transmitter and destroying it, it's basically a giant LC filter... as in, bigger than your average minivan).
Yet more waste of taxpayer money chasing unicorns, in other words...
Hey, I know folks who are being paid good money to chase down those unicorns!
:)
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