DS>    Not sure how you got from 90 to 5000, but if it was by population
 DS>    scaling, then you are about 3 db low:-}}  Iowa has 1/100 th the
 DS>    population of the full country.

  I went by the numbers I remember from school. At least by then Iowa was
2%. But that was a long time ago, I guess half the state has moved to
California by now? :)

 DS>    saying "Surely your 911 service cannot cost that
much?"   I believe
 DS>    that it costs more than that, and that the fee on the telephones only
 DS>    pays part of the cost.

   Well, your guess is probably as good as mine, I suspect. It seems like a
huge waste though to have that many stations. As I said, here in Sweden we
are doing fine with what corresponds to 570 stations in the US.
Population-wise -- and probably area-wise as well.

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