[AMRadio] Fwd: Re: Ebs Test failure

[Robert Nickels]

On 11/9/2011 10:38 PM, Robert Lawson wrote:
> Remember when we were kids and would hear the weekly broadcast band
> local radio stations' CD weird beeps and buzzes and then a, "This has
> been a test

Today's failure drove me to the collection of old EBS and Conelrad tests 
on Youtube.   The first nationwide civil defense test was held on July 
20 1956, smack dab in the middle of the analog, boatanchor, tube-type 
radio era.  But  unlike today, that test - using analog tube-type 
amplitude modulation - worked perfectly!

Here's the 15 minute CONELRAD Civil Defense Radio Instructions broadcast 
that was carried nationwide on 640 and 1230 kc - everything you need to 
know to "be prepared" as explained by government officials, and a few 
well-known celebrities:

Part 1 :   http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=sAxjkMtJA6E
Part 2:    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyhRYo_m6-s&feature=related

"Civil Defense is Everybody's Business - it's YOUR Business!    And 
that's the way it was...

73, Bob W9RAN