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

[Pete Malvasi]

I recall hearing Bob Grant once being interviewed and he mentioned Conelrad alert anmoucements and that in the 1960s radio stations had to have pre-recorded announcements of impending nuclear attacks because the govmt felt announcers may not have the composure to properly broadcast that type of message.  Of course it wouldn't have mattered anyway whether you knew it was coming or not ....

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On Sep 22, 2010, at 21:13, n2yeg at optonline.net wrote:

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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?"
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> Date: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 4:33 pm
> Subject: [NJARC] Do you remember Conelrad? this actually happened.
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>> To all radio men (and women),
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>> Do you remember Conelrad?
>> 
>> http://m.io9.com/5645219/in-1971-world-war-iii-began-during-a-
>> partridge-family-song
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>> This is a riot! Play the video.
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>> 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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