When he moved us away from analog signals for local tv and into only digital signals, he took away citizens' ability to stay updated on local weather through local tv stations. Do we have a new FCC Director under PDJT? Can we please have at least a couple analog stations for public safety issues? Digital signal is iffy at best when the tornado sirens are blaring.
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You can also blame Bill Clinton for the FCC de-regulation with led to the consolidation of ownership of most radio stations under just a handful of owners, who are all effectively bankrupt because they played the private equity game. This means they don’t even have local people who could go live on the air to talk about local emergencies.
If worse comes to worst you can hijack fm signals in Minecraft with a raspberry pi. Network a couple together and scatter them around town, you can take over a station but doing something like that would be a federal crime.
After watching pixilated teevee screens on many channels, I developed a theory that strong signals ARE possible but in wee bit of favoritism of cable networks they allowed weaker signal strength to promote cable hookups for people sick of pixalations..
As OP mentions, Digital TV signals don't degrade gracefully- it's close to all or nothing, like running out of gas versus an alkaline battery gradually becoming dead.
In theory, in urban environments, it can work well... but if you're not close to the station, or anything is suboptimal, it becomes bad really quick.
You can also blame Bill Clinton for the FCC de-regulation which led to the consolidation of ownership of most radio stations under just a handful of owners, who are all effectively bankrupt because they played the private equity game. This means they don’t even have local people who could go live on the air to talk about local emergencies.
They already sold the bandwidth so no
And none of the modern TVs would tune to the old freqs.
Get a handheld ham radio,they normally have a emergency weather channel on it as well as all thr fm stations and in an actual emergency just use the ham to save yourself if you don't have a license for them. They run cheap like 20 bucks on amazon...for now until tarriffs really kick in
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Cell phones with disabled am fm radios!