[GreenKeys] UPI Retype

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For anyone interested, here are the only two recordings of the EBS false alarm of 1971 that I’m aware of:

https://youtu.be/Yu4r79l8P8I
https://youtu.be/OQZGbgipu80

My dad was in Vietnam at the time, so he missed it… and I think my mom was in college then, so she obvious missed it while in class also — never knew it even happened ;p .


> On Dec 4, 2021, at 1:17 pm, John W9DDD <w9ddd at tapr.org> wrote:
> 
> Wow, I dodged that one.  I had been working at channel 3 in Madison WI up until November of 1970..  I had taken a job in Bogotá Colombia.  I was there all of 1971.  I never heard about this event until now.  
> 
> Saturday morning programming was run from the transmitter site with just one engineer on duty.  We had an EBS receiver at the transmitter, but I don't recall having any tapes to use in case it wasn't a test.  I wonder how my former coworkers dealt with situation. 
> 
> John, W9DDD