[R-390] EMP effects:

[wb5uom at hughes.net]

Ah ha ... 1959 I was only 5 - that probably explains why I did not see it!

Sounds good though

David/ WB5UOM
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From: "mlmccauley" <mlmccauley at tx.rr.com>
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> Cecil Acuff wrote:
>  > 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....
>  >
>
> The movie was "On The Beach".
>
> A US sub operating out of Australia goes looking for survivors/low
> radiation areas after a full scale nuke exchange between unnamed
> parties, assumed to be us and the Soviets. The CW signal was coming from
> a station at a refinery at Torrance, CA (we must assume Torrance, in
> that that's where the refineries are in LA). The "CW op" was, just as
> you said, a window shade cord that had become snagged on a straight key
> in the company shore-to-ship radio room. It was discovered by guys from
> the sub in anti-radiation suits who went looking for the "survivor".
>
> Great movie from 1959. Rent it sometime if you get a chance.
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/
>
> 73,
>
> Mike, WB5MYY
> Dallas, TX
> Motorola 390A, as yet un-restored
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