Here's a reminder about the CONELRAD YouTube Channel. Lots of fun stuff there... www.youtube.com/@CONELRAD640...
ATM the focus of my limited Project Time is on finishing the third "proper" conelrad album but after that I'm going to shift to writing
That really satisfies my electronics geekery more than the stock radio with CONELRAD marks on the dial that was in a 1961 Chevy Apache pickup I used to own.
all this nanowrimo stuff has got me itching to get back to writing but I have resolved to complete the third conelrad album first. thankfully that is now making steady progress, though I'm a ways off a time frame estimate
how do you feel about this conelrad guy
Looking forward to this scene in the Conelrad biopic.
to expand on my last post, if you've never read into how the emergency alert system works (now called IPAWS) and go back to the first iterations of it (CONELRAD, Local Access Alert & EBS, then EAS) it's kinda crazy - especially since the AM components are still in use and important!
Duck And Cover programs were established a decade before Strangelove's release and were abandoned by the mid 1960s. Similarly, the CONELRAD radio system (with two tiny triangles on the AM radio dial) ended in 1963.
I was eleven during Bay of Pigs, and my parents looked haunted all day and mom cried when she thought we weren't watching. One of dad's friends, a contractor, built and stocked a bomb shelter under the back yard, entered from blast door from the basement. Frequent CONELRAD alerts. "Megaton"