Posted on 03/31/2014 8:13:49 AM PDT by DallasBiff
An interesting simulation of 1962 America. A bit hokey, and also that the simulated broadcast comes from Dayton, OH, home of Wright-Patterson Air Force base, and would have been one of the first places on the mark for a soviet nuclear attack, I believe it echoes the times.
That’s a cone-el-rad...
640/1240 CONELRAD.
640/1240 CONELRAD.
The idea was that all local radio stations in a given area move to these frequencies and power down to maybe a couple hundred watts, and then hand off the program to each other over a loop every 30 seconds. The idea was to confuse enemy bombers and keep them from getting a beam on any one signal.
ICBM’s made CONELRAD obsolete.
Wasn’t the acronym for “Control of Electromagnetic Radiation”? My parents had a ‘63 Mercury Meteor that had the CONELRAD markings on the radio dial.
Hmmm. I didn’t remember the hand off part. I do remember every radio dial had 640 and 1240 marked with a CD triangle and circle.
You are exactly correct about the acronym.
Never had to worry about such BS, I’ve never had a radio in a vehicle.
That was a decent JFK impression. But why didn’t the Commies nuke Chicago? I mean, Portland? WTF?
Some day I am going to bring you a box of Twinkies.
I bought all the vehicles to work in, not to screw off listinging to the radio, including mine!!
The time between point a and point b is to be used for planing what you do upon arival at point b not daydreaming!!!!
I collect old radios, and sets from the late 50’s/early 60’s do have these markings.
Apparently the Japanese did not get the word that the program had ended. Some imported transistor sets continued to bear these markings up to around 1970.
And had they not, GPS would have.
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