[R-390] EMP effects:

[Cecil Acuff]

Dang I was born in 56....couldn't have been too old when I saw that...

Thanks guys....solved one of the mysteries of my life...

On to the next...wonder where that girl next door moved to?

HA!

Cecil
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mlmccauley" <mlmccauley at tx.rr.com>
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Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] EMP effects:


> 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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