ShareCom to Participate in Founding of National Emergency Warning Association.

Business & News Editors

PALATINE, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2001

ShareCom Inc. (OTCBB:SHCC) today announced that it would participate in the Conference for the Organization of a National Association for Emergency Warning and Public Notification to be held Nov. 29, 2001, in McLean, Va.

The committee has been formed to organize a national association to provide a forum for addressing issues related to emergency warning. The committee includes representatives from FEMA, NASA, state emergency management offices and private industry. The goal of the conference is to refine the founding documentation and plan the next steps.

In June 2000, FEMA determined that an organization was needed to provide a forum for emergency managers, industry and government to address the issues surrounding public warning and notification. There are many different systems, including tone alert radios, reverse 911, EAS, NOAA Weather Radio, sirens, door-to-door, public media, etc.

The roundtable participants agreed that no single warning system meets all needs, and there are very few standards. As a consequence, emergency managers have few guidelines for deciding where to invest scarce budget dollars, industry has few guidelines for producing the products needed by the emergency management community, and government does not have the information needed for informed decision-making.

The purpose of the association shall be to reduce the danger to the lives and property of the citizens of the United States by:

1. Promoting the development and use of effective public warning

technologies, methodologies and capabilities;

2. Providing a forum for the exchange of knowledge and the

resolution of problems related to public warning and

notification;

3. Encouraging and facilitating the cooperation across

administrative boundaries and between organizations and

agencies for enhanced public warning;

4. Creating or facilitating the creation of recommended standards

for warning systems, technologies, methodologies and

capabilities;

5. Informing lawmakers, rule makers, public servants, emergency

managers and the public about public warning capabilities and

deficiencies;

6. Fostering informed decision-making on public policy with

respect to public safety and public warning.

As a result of the conference, ShareCom will help decide what the organization will be doing, who should be involved and what the first steps taken should be.

The use of ShareCom's WeatherRadios.com site, the premier Internet site for information about the NOAA Weather Radio system and product options, will focus in part on the NOAA Weather Radio standard of its Specific Area Message Encoding (S.A.M.E.) protocol, used by both the NOAA Weather Radio system and the Emergency Alert System (EAS). S.A.M.E. is the broadcasting method of specifically identifying locations for various alerts, eliminating the "false alarm" or "boy who cried wolf" situations.

"We view this as an excellent opportunity to help steer the direction of the emergency warning systems within this country towards a more standardized and reliable system for all of us," commented Brad Nordling, president of SHCC. "With these standards and systems in place, our company can produce the types of products that will be of the most benefit to all Americans."

Safe-harbor statement: The statements in this news release regarding benefits of the participation in the conference, perceived or actual benefits of the ShareCom weather radio products, future opportunities and any other effect, result or aspect of the proposed transaction, and any other statements that are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to costs, delays and any other difficulties related to the agreements, risks and effects of legal and administrative proceedings and governmental regulation, future financial and operational results, competition, general economic conditions, and the ability to manage and continue growth. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual outcomes may vary materially from those indicated. The company undertakes no obligation to revise or update such statements to reflect current events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.