Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.
The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.
The radio is good for taking somebody else's experience and making you understand what it would be like. Because when you don't see someone, but you hear them talking - and, uh, that is what radio is all about - it's like when someone is talking from the heart. Everything about it conspires to take you into somebody else's world.
Radio is immediate.
States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.
Radio is for driving.
But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
Radio is the most intimate and socially personal medium in the world.
It would be nice to have radio support, not that we've ever had that much trouble with it.