I don't remember hearing any of those celebrity PSA's, but they aren't very
different from what FEMA tells us today at ready.gov or other websites.
I heard some of those early ConElRad tests. I don't know how it was done,
but they could transmit a common audio feed to several radio stations and
synchronize them so that, on either 640 or 1240 kilocycles, they would
switch every few seconds from one radio station to a different one. The
theory was that the direction-finding equipment on Soviet bombers would not
be able to get a fix on any targets, but the public could still receive
emergency information. At that time, ballistic missiles weren't known to be
a threat.
Hams were also required to stop all transmissions if an emergency situation
were to begin. QST had articles on how to make a Conelrad monitor, an AM
radio with a light that would go out if your local station had jumped from
its frequency to either 640 or 1240. My father, K0DYK, built one of these
so we would be ready.
73,
Lloyd Rasmussen, W3IUU, Wheaton, Maryland
Home: http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work: http://www.loc.gov/nls
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Mike Duke, K5XU
> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 8:42 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: A Bit of Radio History
>
> Many of the ham radio lists are full of various stories of how the
> national Emergency Alert System test yesterday was its own national
> disaster.
>
> The message below contains a link to a bit of radio history that a few
> on this list will remember.
>
> I don't really remember the Conelrad system, but I have read about it.
>
> Hams were also required to participate in it.
>
> K5XU
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Nickels" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Fwd: Re: Ebs Test failure
>
>
> On 11/9/2011 10:38 PM, Robert Lawson wrote:
> > Remember when we were kids and would hear the weekly broadcast band
> > local radio stations' CD weird beeps and buzzes and then a, "This
> > has
> > been a test
>
> Today's failure drove me to the collection of old EBS and Conelrad
> tests
> on Youtube. The first nationwide civil defense test was held on July
> 20 1956, smack dab in the middle of the analog, boatanchor, tube-type
> radio era. But unlike today, that test - using analog tube-type
> amplitude modulation - worked perfectly!
>
> Here's the 15 minute CONELRAD Civil Defense Radio Instructions
> broadcast
> that was carried nationwide on 640 and 1230 kc - everything you need
> to
> know to "be prepared" as explained by government officials, and a few
> well-known celebrities:
>
> Part 1 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=sAxjkMtJA6E
> Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyhRYo_m6-s&feature=related
>
> "Civil Defense is Everybody's Business - it's YOUR Business! And
> that's the way it was...
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
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