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Re:60 kHz (2022) by meindnoch on Saturday June 01, 2024 @04:50AM (#40544020)
>Say you're a country at war like Ukraine - have the "emergency bit" on nationwide during Russian air raids so that receivers can listen for area-specific signals and blare horns if affected.

And what would prevent Russia from continuously broadcasting this emergency bit to cause chaos?

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Re:60 kHz (2022) by mschuster91 on Saturday June 01, 2024 @04:37PM (#40548884)
> And what would prevent Russia from continuously broadcasting this emergency bit to cause chaos?

So what, all that would do in my scenario is drain the batteries of the civilian populations' alarms a bit faster as they'd keep their more power-intensive CPU awake.

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