#UK #Govt has finally published its guidelines for citizen #prepardeness and #resilience - which are similar to elsewhere in #Europe
They now mention having an analogue VHF/FM #radio rather than MW or LW (as these AM bands are increasingly falling out of use in the UK for public service #broadcasting )
In the event of a national #emergency , state broadcaster #BBC will route all programme audio from BBC Radio 4 to every available FM transmitter (replacing other services such as Radio 1, 2, 3) , and this would be Britain's emergency broadcasting service. Its unclear what will happen to DAB/+ services but if they are still going they would likely also take the Radio 4 feed..
(An analogue FM radio is less battery hungry than DAB)
https://beready.campaign.gov.uk/
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK
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