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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (8255)	8/22/1999 11:39:00 AM
From: John Hunt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

Y2K on a scale of 0 (nil) to 10 (catastrophic) Karen, IMHO, based on everything that I have read, one could make a serious case for a Y2K severity of 2 to 8 on as scale of 10. There is just too many programs being modified and too many critical countries (ie Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, etc) to make a case less than 2 and too much progress has been made to make a case higher than 8. Where exactly would you (and others) rate the severity? For what it's worth, my rating is between 5 and 6. John PS - Let's all stop the polly and doomer terminology ... It is counter-productive to reaching understanding of the problem.

To: Lane3 who wrote (8255)	8/23/1999 8:26:00 PM
From: bearcub	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

speaking of radios, we are still part of the prepared and preparing in that category, since it is a little further down the list than water, food, shelter, clothing and firearms plus plenty of ammo for people perforation as ron calls it. we are investigating ways to enhance our receiving range so that we have more choices in case brown-outs or black outs affect nearby stations. we are getting ham literate since our local ham club has been working on their expanded y2k role as governmental assigned adjuncts to y2k communications in order to help civil defense responders post 01/01/00 does ANYONE know of any FCC plans or FCC URLS that talk about what contingency planning the FCC has made for alternate power and increased signal strength for various AM stations? for FM stations? maybe a list of call letters of the strongest stations NOW that possibly could increase wattage and cover more 'area?'