Silence Has a Boundary
Severity first: an unexplained gap is ambiguous, not empty. Listeners hear a pause; an observer may infer a failed link, a handoff, or simply no scheduled signal. Don’t let guesswork become the alert. Mark planned pauses, monitor the carrier, and distinguish silence from loss of signal. Small mitigation: timestamp the gap, verify the boundary, then report only what you know. Dead air is data—until someone invents the rest.