[isiahl]

Was at a rest stop and heard talking coming from a box on a pole. It was reading out the weather in TTS voice, guessing it was the transmitter for one of these stations.

[LeoPanthera]

It was probably NOAA Weather Radio.

https://www.weather.gov/nwr/

[krupan]

Which is not AM

[vel0city]

Which is why I think this whole thing is really dumb. You know what would be actually useful for requiring in cars that wouldn't otherwise be included? A NOAA weather radio mode in the car, along with the option to have it automatically alert me when it detects an alert. In a disaster I'll be listening to that, not trying to hunt down an AM radio station I haven't willingly listened to in decades.

[briandear]

NOAA provides weather, but it isn’t going to tell you specific evacuation routes, or provide relevant news.

[tjohns]

Emergency alerts are automatically broadcast over NOAA weather radio.

You can get home receivers that monitor NOAA radio for emergency alerts tones and will automatically switch on in a disaster.

It's a great feature, every home should have one.

[vel0city]

I've definitely heard evacuation information broadcast over NOAA radio. Have you been in a mass evacuation before?

[grogenaut]

cool we should add that to the mandate and lets toss in some of the emergency bands while we're at it. chips are cheap these days.