Boston TV Signals Disrupting Police Radio in NJ

jeffy124 writes "WCVB, a digital TV station in Boston, is disrupting police radio communications in South Jersey. It seems that under certain weather conditions, the signal reaches here travels 270 miles (it's normally 50) and blacks out the police frequencies, making communication between officers and from 911 call centers impossible. The article seems to suggest that as more TV stations go digital, more small-town police radio will be affected, as the digital signal is significantly stronger than analog. Insert Joisey-joke here."

Comments

Re:Same frequencies?

[damiangerous]

The "real story" would be the article. Which contains the answers to every single one of your questions.

Re:Did someone say 'Joisey joke'?

[Loki_1929]

Score 5 Funny?

I'm guessing the moderators who modded that up have never actually been to New Jersey. Now, for one thing, the Meadowlands (up north close to NYC) is the only place that's even remotely smelly or of poor conditions in NJ that I've seen so far. Much of southern NJ was made up of small farming communities until recently when actual townships started forming. Most of NJ is now just that; small townships with hardly anything in between but trees, connected only by small (two lane) roads. I just moved to NJ a few years ago, and I'm not offended by comments - just the ignorance that their content shows. If you want to make a joke, call the people here simple, or make a comment about how almost everything is closed after 6pm, or how there's so much farmland. There's no accents in New Jersey; you're thinking of certain sections of NYC. These are (for the most part) normal, simple people who are MUCH friendlier and happier than the people from the DC-metro area. No one here says "joisey", we say "jersey". I must admit, however, that I was a bit surprised when I moved here from Maryland and couldn't find someone with any accent for a while.

Oh, and by the way, our gas is cheaper than most places in the country, and it's full service everywhere (state law). When my relatives in MD were paying $1.90 for gas, we were paying $1.25. NJ isn't such a bad place when you actually take a turn off the NJ Turnpike.