10:14 p.m. Live Jamaican radio – Power 106-FM in Kingston is still broadcasting.. How? The station must have a generator. I asked Lou Jacobs to explain: How they do that: “The blogsphere wonders how in the hell do you get a radio signal out of an island that’s getting blasted by a 145 mph hurricane? Easy you use a CDN, that’s correct a Content Delivery Network….”
He told me in email the signal is going out via fiber under the ocean. He’s getting a streamguys server in Ashburn, Virginia; I did a traceroute, too, to the actual URL Winamp is using, and I’m getting 16 hops to Chicago. The signal is distributed, so not everybody’s banging on the same server. (Projo)
Go-Jamaica Hurricane Dean Watch blog
UPDATE: the satellite tracker link I meant to post in the first place…