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

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I remember a cartoon in Popular Electronics sometime in the '60s.  It showed a contemporary classical music aficionado sitting in his smoking jacket, in one of those chairs that looked like they were going to swallow you up, cigarette in a 1 foot long holder, listening to his FM High Fidelity system.  He was reading an article about 
Conelrad in a newspaper.  His caption was (approximately) ”640 or 1240 [kilocycles]?  What about us FM listeners?"

----- Original Message -----
From: oldradio at comcast.net
Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 4:33 pm
Subject: [NJARC] Do you remember Conelrad? this actually happened.
To: SCARA Reflector , NJARC 

> Just remember 
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> _________________________________________________________
> 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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