[R-390] EMP effects:

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"On the Beach", a movie made from a novel by the same title, by Nevil Shute.
The story is the aftermath of a global nuclear war.

73, Meir WF2U
Landrum, SC


Quoting Cecil Acuff <chacuff at cableone.net>:

> I remember a movie I saw as a kid...wish I could remember the name of
> it...would like to see it again.
>
> After an apocalyptic event it seemed most of the human race was eradicated
> but one that survived was hearing a weird CW signal on a radio of some
> sorts.  He traveled what seemed like across the country trying to find this
> signal because he thought it might mean other survivors existed.  Went
> through many interesting events along the way but when he finally got to the
> source of the signal it was a string and a brick or something heavy tied to
> a window shade blowing in the breeze that was keying the transmitter...
>
> I must have only been 6 or 8 at the time and can't remember anything more
> detailed than that...
>
> Must have made quite an impression at the time....
>
> Cecil
> K5DL
>
>