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On Fri, 7 Mar 2003 01:55:42 -0500 "Alan Henney" <alan@henney.com> writes:
> DC Emergency Radio Network
> Bill Adler, billonline@adlerbooks.com
> 
> The DC Emergency Radio Network (DCERN) uses inexpensive, 
> license-free 
> FRS (family radio service) radios to enable neighbors to communicate 
> 
> with each other in an emergency. 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48660-2003Mar5.html

>>
2-Way Radios Won't Leave You Feeling Cut Off 

By Marc Fisher
Thursday, March 6, 2003; Page B01 

....
Even if you didn't fall for the duct tape hysteria and your inner Martha
Stewart doesn't fancy repapering the walls with plastic sheeting, there
is a nifty $25 move you can make to be assured that you'll know what's
happening. Bill Adler, a Washington writer who has penned books on
"Outwitting Squirrels," "Outwitting Toddlers" and "Outwitting Neighbors,"
has figured out how to outwit a communications blackout.

He has set up the D.C. Emergency Radio Network, which is a fancy way of
saying he is getting the word out about those funky new two-way radios
you see people using in parks and parking lots, on the beach and outside
shops. After heavy lobbying by Radio Shack, the federal government set up
the Family Radio Service in 1996 to give people a way to talk to each
other through handheld radios with much better range than old-fashioned
walkie-talkies.

The radios require no license, have a range of up to a mile, and retail
for as little as $25 a pair. Since they run on batteries and offer
multiple channels, they'd work when other communication tools don't.
....
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IIRC, Marc Fisher is the columnist who wrote about the scanner owners
listening to the CAPs in an article that appeared shortly after 9-11.