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Oct. 3rd, 2013 02:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_leeSo, we've been testing the radio, and we think we have something working. Problem is sorting what we air. And when.
The folks at Aldrich have a dozen different ideas. A couple want something on all the time. Others think it's too much risk, and we should air only once or twice a week. And no one agrees which times.
What to say's also hard. Some here want to pass personal messages to their families, but that might be way too dangerous. But no one wants stupid platitudes, either.
Reading everyone's comments about the camps and food, maybe we could use the radio to share how it's going, or what needs to happen. Might need a way to code it, though. The good thing about radio is that anyone can listen. The bad thing is that anyone can listen.
Aldrich is talking about it on Tuesday, so arguments for specific stuff would be good before then. Or ideas on how to get more radios to people privately, or let them know about when to listen. Maybe someone who's working with the camps could come to that, or ask when you talk to people if they'd find it useful.
The folks at Aldrich have a dozen different ideas. A couple want something on all the time. Others think it's too much risk, and we should air only once or twice a week. And no one agrees which times.
What to say's also hard. Some here want to pass personal messages to their families, but that might be way too dangerous. But no one wants stupid platitudes, either.
Reading everyone's comments about the camps and food, maybe we could use the radio to share how it's going, or what needs to happen. Might need a way to code it, though. The good thing about radio is that anyone can listen. The bad thing is that anyone can listen.
Aldrich is talking about it on Tuesday, so arguments for specific stuff would be good before then. Or ideas on how to get more radios to people privately, or let them know about when to listen. Maybe someone who's working with the camps could come to that, or ask when you talk to people if they'd find it useful.
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Date: 2013-10-04 12:58 am (UTC)I say, well done on the progress. That's brilliant.
Do the people who only want to broadcast now and then have a reason? Is it safety or the energy it takes to broadcast?
I think it would be better if you could broadcast all the time, but that the news updates or the coded messages come at specific times of day. Have you given thought to broadcasting music and material that has been proscribed by the Protectorate? Muggle music, or reading from books or plays written by Muggles? That could well fill loads of airtime and wouldn't necessarily give away one's position or vital information. You could break in with alerts and news and addresses, what, but it would also remind people of what the world used to be like. And I daresay it might teach the younger ones to appreciate Muggle culture, as well.
Of course, if you can only broadcast now and then, it's a different matter, what.
I wonder if Sirius would consider writing an address once in a while.
-Justin
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Date: 2013-10-04 01:51 am (UTC)Energy, we've got a system we think will work. More than one, maybe. But it's sorta jury-rigged together, and a bad storm could take some of it out. Broadcasting an hour here or there, we can do some other things, but we can't keep that up all the time.
The safety thing's also a problem, and maybe Mr Shacklebolt or Mr or Mrs Longbottom could explain this more, but from what I've heard, the more information you put out there, the easier people can put it together. And some of that's what we say, but it might also be other things. Someone at Aldrich mentioned being able to maybe overhear sounds like birds, and figure out where we're broadcasting from.
With the Fidelius Charm and all, they can't actually get to us, but if they figured out more or less where we are, that might still be bad. (One of the people here at Aldrich got real worked up about them doing things to the water, or maybe the air, if they knew sort of where to do it. Took everyone ages to calm him down.) Plus, the more we broadcast, the more a camp enforcer or someone could hear, maybe recognise a voice, go after that person's relatives. Everyone wants to chew on it lots before deciding.
I like your idea of Muggle music and books. Might solve some of it.
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Date: 2013-10-04 05:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-10-04 05:44 am (UTC)I think you're right in that sending specific messages would be tricky for a few reasons. The buttons are far more secure in that way, even though it would take longer to disperse information. We might want to save that particular use for when it's truly dire to act quickly, regardless of who is listening in.
Perhaps it would be more useful to simply report general news coming from the various camps? We could ask the button holders to send in reports, and then make sure they are are gone over carefully so that they can't be traced to that particular person.
And while they can't necessarily report on the slow-down plan, for instance, Aldrich certainly could report general news on how the reduced food is negatively impacting health of those in the camps who impacted -- and if we pair that with the button holders spreading the word quietly that it's a deliberate show, it might make the other camps who aren't directly involved more likely to want to work with us in the future.
I imagine the risk to their tracking down the source of the station isn't as much of a problem, but possible reprisals on family members is something to think out carefully.
Lastly -- I know it's edging on the side of platitudes, but the more they can emphasise that the broadcasts are a joint effort between magical and muggle people, the better.
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Date: 2013-10-04 05:49 am (UTC)fu lee says they have wind-up versions that don't need batters or plugs, so maybe we can work on helping out on that end. come up with a design that's really easy to make, so we can make a lot of them.
all they need to do is get the one station, after all.