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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