Jakam, on another thread in this category (Nat. Dist & Lrg-Scale Emer) there is a discussion regarding how you will get your disaster information when television goes digital in February. Were talking about most likely tornado and hurricane stuff and the power goes out.

While we all consider radio and smart phones a viable means, many who have been using small analog t.v.'s with antennas will be out of luck as will people who use the t.v. capabilities on emergency radios.

My observation was that there are people bringing digital satellite systems to football stadiums to watch games. So if someone has a digital satellite and they lose power after February, they may not be in such bad shape if they are the person whose back up is analog t.v.

They could figure out how to configure their sat. dish, receiver and home television to run off a generator system.