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I was just getting started in the business in 1970. I was working at a
station on 1260 kHz. The way I remember it, was that they were to go to Conelrad 1240 in case of national emergency. They had been provided with a government surplus generator, and were obligated to keep it operational. -- Gene Seibel http://pad39a.com/gene/broadcast.html In article , (Gene Seibel) wrote: The only requirements I know of were back in the days of conelrad. Nothing now. Do you remember what the specific requirements were back in the days of conelrad? Regards, John Byrns |
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On 20 Aug 2003 22:55:30 GMT, "Steve Stone"
wrote: List of what I hear AM from Middletown NY in Orange Cty, NY. WTBQ is the only live station I know of left to produce local news and shows. Radio - Kenwood TS-430S Antenna - 125 foot long wire Date Time Frequency Call Sign AM/FM/LSB/USB/CW City State Country Comments 5/21/2003 1:07:28.48 PM 710.0 WOR AM New York NY USA Talk Radio I spent 10 years at WOR. If we didn't produce live local news how did we win all those AP News awards? 5/21/2003 1:17:31.02 PM 880.0 WCBS AM New York NY USA Talk Radio WCBS is All News. Live. 5/21/2003 1:25:59.08 PM 1,010.0 WINS AM New York NY USA All News Live. 5/23/2003 1:54:35.18 PM 1,060.0 KYW AM Philadelphia PA usa news (LSB) Live 5/21/2003 1:27:59.34 PM 1,080.0 WTIC AM Hartford CT USA Rush S-8 all news Actually News/Talk 5/21/2003 1:44:14.98 PM 1,220.0 WGNY AM Newburgh NY USA CNN CNN was all news last time I listened. 5/21/2003 1:56:37.45 PM 1,490.0 WTSX AM Port Jervis NY USA FOX More news. Even "fair and balanced" Judging by this list you weren't lacking in news. Rich |
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"Paul Van House" wrote in message ... In article , says... In article , (Gene Seibel) wrote: Do you remember what the specific requirements were back in the days of conelrad? If we're talking FM stations, I don't know for sure but I think the FMers (what few there were) would have had to sign off. The participating am stations all switched to one of two frequencies (1 high or 1 low) theoretically to confuse enemy "signal tracers" from seeking and destroying transmitters. 640 and 1240. Local areas or markets had stations assigned to one of the two, and they would cycle on or off to further confuse RDF usage of signals. The entire national system was tested several times in the early 60's, with nothing on any channel except 640 and 1240 for a half-hour around 11 AM on a weekday. |
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--------------010207050005070101080006 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm old enough to remember. At the class 1B clear channel station I worked at our 10 kw auxiliary transmitter had a bunch of components that had to be jumpered and/or added. We would test it into the dummy load after we set it up on 1240. There was a large manual denoting the changes that had to be made. There was also an area test where we would get an alert from the Conelrad control point and we would have to set the aux to 1240 and turn its control over the the control point and then they would test for a half hour or so. On for 30-60 seconds and off for 3-4 minutes in a random pattern. I think this was the only exception to the union contract that we could do anything except take meter readings without a supervisor there. Of course we took about 100 meter readings and then typed them into the official log every 1/2 hour. Later at a EBS (what was it now CSPS??-1) main station we had a 35 kw generator and 1500 gallons of diesel fuel, console, turntable, cart machines, tape machines and at least 30 days of food at the transmitter with walls 24 inches thick (8" block, 8" reinforced concrete, 8" block sealed and air conditioned. We also had two way radios between us and the State Police and the local County Sheriff/FEMA office. FCC (for FEMA I believe) came out every so often to check out our EBS readiness. Even the food and the other ends of the two way radios to be sure the links worked. Everything was also (supposedly) protected from EMP. I asked one day how much notice we would have to man the site in the event of an attack and was told about 15 minutes and I said "Oh good! It takes me 20 minutes to get there from the studios in an emergency". The FEMA guy just shook his head and smiled..... Rich Wood wrote: On 21 Aug 2003 02:54:39 GMT, (John Byrns) wrote: In article , (Gene Seibel) wrote: The only requirements I know of were back in the days of conelrad. Nothing now. Do you remember what the specific requirements were back in the days of conelrad? In the 60 and 70s every transmitter I worked with had a crystal for either 640 or 1240. As I recall there were serious requirements to be part of the system. I think they were an underground studio, generator at both studio and transmitter and a connection to a local, regional or federal emergency feed to, I think, Civil Defense. I don't remember what the testing procedure was because everyone would have had to switch to their assigned emergency frequency. I'm just not old enough to remember. Rich --------------010207050005070101080006 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" html head meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" title/title /head body I'm old enough to remember. At the class 1B clear channel station I worked at our 10 kw auxiliary transmitter had a bunch of components that had to be jumpered and/or added. We would test it into the dummy load after we set it up on 1240. There was a large manual denoting the changes that had to be made. There was also an area test where we would get an alert from the Conelrad control point and we would have to set the aux to 1240 and turn its control over the the control point and then they would test for a half hour or so. On for 30-60 seconds and off for 3-4 minutes in a random pattern. I think this was the only exception to the union contract that we could do anything except take meter readings without a supervisor there. Of course we took about 100 meter readings and then typed them into the official log every 1/2 hour.br br Later at a EBS (what was it now CSPS??-1) main station we had a 35 kw generator and 1500 gallons of diesel fuel, console, turntable, cart machines, tape machines and at least 30 days of food at the transmitter with walls 24 inches thick (8" block, 8" reinforced concrete, 8" block sealed and air conditioned. We also had two way radios between us and the State Police and the local County Sheriff/FEMA office. FCC (for FEMA I believe) came out every so often to check out our EBS readiness. Even the food and the other ends of the two way radios to be sure the links worked. Everything was also (supposedly) protected from EMP. br br I asked one day how much notice we would have to man the site in the event of an attack and was told about 15 minutes and I said "Oh good! It takes me 20 minutes to get there from the studios in an emergency". The FEMA guy just shook his head and smiled.....br br br Rich Wood wrote:br blockquote type="cite" " pre wrap=""On 21 Aug 2003 02:54:39 GMT, a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" /a (John Byrns) wrote: /pre blockquote type="cite" pre wrap=""In article a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" "<bi0u9 >/a, a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" /a (Gene Seibel) wrote: /pre blockquote type="cite" pre wrap=""The only requirements I know of were back in the days of conelrad. Nothing now. /pre /blockquote pre wrap=""Do you remember what the specific requirements were back in the days of conelrad? /pre /blockquote pre wrap=""!---- In the 60 and 70s every transmitter I worked with had a crystal for either 640 or 1240. As I recall there were serious requirements to be part of the system. I think they were an underground studio, generator at both studio and transmitter and a connection to a local, regional or federal emergency feed to, I think, Civil Defense. I don't remember what the testing procedure was because everyone would have had to switch to their assigned emergency frequency. I'm just not old enough to remember. Rich /pre /blockquote br /body /html --------------010207050005070101080006-- |
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Rich Wood wrote:
Doesn't your market have a full service AM? Or, at least, an AM that's known for its news? Like I said, the original scenario was not posted by me. It prolly ties in with the idea that most people don't know that AM exists. |
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Not lacking in news.. but lacking in local news.
There is a difference. Do I really care that the subway is broke in NYC when no friend or family lives or works in NYC... or am I more interested to know that I-84 has a backup up for 10 miles at the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge because a tractor trailer full of hazmat dumped at a toll booth? (hint, I-84 can be seen from my backyard) Rockland County's answer to the problem was to install reverse 911 systems and create a network of low power AM stations on TIS freqs to warn the public. Most NYC stations don't know life exists north of Yonkers. Canned national satellite feeds on local stations that do not break in with local issues don't count. It takes a local axe murder to get coverage from NYC stations up here. -- Remove "zz" from e-mail address to direct reply. "Rich Wood" wrote in message ... On 20 Aug 2003 22:55:30 GMT, "Steve Stone" wrote: List of what I hear AM from Middletown NY in Orange Cty, NY. WTBQ is the only live station I know of left to produce local news and shows. Radio - Kenwood TS-430S Antenna - 125 foot long wire Date Time Frequency Call Sign AM/FM/LSB/USB/CW City State Country Comments 5/21/2003 1:07:28.48 PM 710.0 WOR AM New York NY USA Talk Radio I spent 10 years at WOR. If we didn't produce live local news how did we win all those AP News awards? 5/21/2003 1:17:31.02 PM 880.0 WCBS AM New York NY USA Talk Radio WCBS is All News. Live. 5/21/2003 1:25:59.08 PM 1,010.0 WINS AM New York NY USA All News Live. 5/23/2003 1:54:35.18 PM 1,060.0 KYW AM Philadelphia PA usa news (LSB) Live 5/21/2003 1:27:59.34 PM 1,080.0 WTIC AM Hartford CT USA Rush S-8 all news Actually News/Talk 5/21/2003 1:44:14.98 PM 1,220.0 WGNY AM Newburgh NY USA CNN CNN was all news last time I listened. 5/21/2003 1:56:37.45 PM 1,490.0 WTSX AM Port Jervis NY USA FOX More news. Even "fair and balanced" Judging by this list you weren't lacking in news. Rich |
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On 22 Aug 2003 14:48:24 GMT, "Steve Stone"
wrote: Not lacking in news.. but lacking in local news. There is a difference. Do I really care that the subway is broke in NYC when no friend or family lives or works in NYC... or am I more interested to know that I-84 has a backup up for 10 miles at the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge because a tractor trailer full of hazmat dumped at a toll booth? (hint, I-84 can be seen from my backyard) I would guess that hundreds of thousands of people stranded in sweltering heat underground is a bigger story for a New York station than a traffic backup on I-84. That day traffic was backed up everywhere. Friends who live in New Jersey took as long as 12 hours to make a trip that normally lasts less than 40 minutes on a bad day. Most NYC stations don't know life exists north of Yonkers. Are they supposed to? Your issue is with traffic. I recall lots of Yonkers coverage when low income housing was proposed and the city made lots of nimby noise. It's rare that bedroom communities generate a lot of news. We do hear about murders of wealthy people We still hear news about ugly, self-centered, insensitive, PR socialite Lizzie Grubman running down the rich and famous at a trendy nightclub on Long Island. Very, very important news here in the city. She now has a radio show, giggly gossip about terribly important rich people. I always tell people to put your latest conviction at the top of your resume. It takes a local axe murder to get coverage from NYC stations up here. Unfortunately, that's news. Rich |
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On 22 Aug 2003 17:11:23 GMT, Rich Wood
wrote: That's not our experience in New York. On 9/11 WINS had an AQH of more than 900,000. I can't help it if they're too dumb to figure out how to change bands on their radios. WCBS had an AQH of more than 300,000. Both are awesome figures. These figures came directly from an Arbitron representative at an R&R Talk convention. Such figures had never been seen before. Maybe all those people didn't realize they were listening to AM stations. It would be more accurate to say that younger listeners don't know AM exists -- especially teens. I have a young lady working in my newsroom who claims never to have listened to AM radio, even up to this day, and being aware of its existence only in the vaguest sense before starting to work in radio. (She had also never seen a 45 RPM record, and didn't know what they are until I showed her one that happened to be lying around in one of the studios). She turns 19 in a couple of months. I think she's probably typical of her age group, judging from conversations I've had over the past few years. Mark Howell |
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