Brenda Ann wrote:
"dave" wrote in message
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Gregg wrote:
On Dec 7, 6:20 am, Bob Dobbs wrote:
dxAce wrote:

Yep, TODAY is December 7.
Pause and remember.
Yes remember...
Remember those little triangles on all AMBCB radios at 640 and 1240
pointing to
the CONELRAD stations and the history of their coming into being.
Of course nowadays any air attack on the USA would most likely be aided
by GPS.

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Yeah Bob, no doubt. I can just imagine what came over some of my
radios before
I got them. It would be neat to know.
During a Conelrad Alert, all stations would drop their carriers for a
moment, except for any stations on 640 and/or 1240.

In Astoria, we had two stations, one on 1230 and one on 1370. During a
test, the one on 1230 was required to drop carrier for 30 seconds. The one
on 1370, in event of an actual alert, was supposed to retune to 1240. Don't
know why the FCC did it that way, but they did.



When I started working at WEAM-1390 in Arlington in the 1970s, there
was a large (but by then disabled) relay system for switching the
Gates BC-5E transmitter to Conelrad operation.

By the way, speaking of December 7th, there is an amateur radio
connection to the interception of the Japanese "Winds" message
presaging the Pearl Harbor attack:

http://www.kevinalfredstrom.com/2008/10/east-wind-rain/


With all good wishes,


Kevin, WB4AIO.
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http://kevinalfredstrom.com/