[NJARC] Do you remember Conelrad? this actually happened.

[oldradio at comcast.net]

To all radio men (and women),

Do you remember Conelrad?

http://m.io9.com/5645219/in-1971-world-war-iii-began-during-a-partridge-family-song

This is a riot!  Play the video.

On the morning of Saturday, February 20, 1971, Wayland S. Eberhardt, a civilian teletype operator, was going about his routine duties at the National Emergency Warning Center at Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. One of the functions of "the Mountain" during this era was to send out the weekly Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) test directive to the nation's radio and television stations. They were, of course, also responsible for sending out the real warning. When stations received these messages they compared it against a card to determine what action to take.

73, John Dilks, K2TQN


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