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   AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 05:33:01 JST AI6YR Ben

   Interesting, the Texas Department of State Health Services had put in a new requirement (post Camp Mystic) that all youth camps have fiber optic Internet service. (being challenged in court)

   "...The Texas Department of State Health Services has reached an agreement with a group of youth camp operators regarding legal requirements that all camps licensed by DSHS maintain fiber optic internet service.

   Under the agreement, camps that maintain a redundant, broadband internet service will not face potential license denial or revocation for not having fiber service during the 2026 camping season, as long as they meet all other safety requirements...."

   https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/dshs-reaches-agreement-fiber-optic-requirement-youth-camps

   #TXwx #disasters #CampMystic

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 05:32:59 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • Matt Blaze

     @mattblaze In theory, this is what a WEA capable weather receiver is, the distribution medium being the NWS radio frequencies.

     Steve's Place repeated this.
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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 05:32:59 JST Matt Blaze

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     @ai6yr Yeah, except NOAA doesn't have great coverage and doesn't generally pick up alerts they didn't originate. What you really want is a 3 or 4 receiver package, monitoring NOAA and the local primaries.

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     AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 05:33:00 JST AI6YR Ben

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     • Matt Blaze

     @mattblaze Yeah, this is because their cell phone towers failed at Camp Mystic. Seems like a problem with fiber distribution not being available in a lot of places.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 05:33:00 JST Matt Blaze

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     @ai6yr Once again, it would be great if there were simple consumer/lite-commercial-grade multi-receiver EAS boxes available. But there are only specialized boxes aimed at broadcast stations. (That's how the cellphone companies are getting their alerts (in many cases)).

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 05:33:01 JST Matt Blaze

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     @ai6yr Is this for emergency alerting? That seems like a very specific requirement that doesn't correlate especially well with reliability. Why not satellite or terrestrial wireless? And is fiber service even available everywhere there are camps?