Let’s all chip in and buy JimRob a Megawatt transmitter, ship it to Fresno, and set it up as a mega-repeater.
All kidding aside. We need a select number of ham operators, one for each geographic area of the country. And a frequency that lay folk can tune in to at regular times. I think this was done in WW2. One-way transmission of news at top of the hour, certain times a day.