Re: Conelrad question

["Dan Strassberg" <Dan.Strassberg@att.net>]

The answer to that question is "yes, absolutely." In the event of an attack
warning, all regular broadcasting (regular AM, all FM, and all TV) was
supposed to cease. Conelrad would be the only thing on the air that anyone
without a short-wave receiver could pick up (and relatively few people in
the US had short-wave receivers). Not all AMs participated in the Conelrad
plan, but most did. Nonparticipating stations had to go off the air for the
duration of the alert.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
Phone: 1-617-558-4205, eFax: 1-707-215-6367

-----Original Message-----
From: R.L. Caron <k4gp@peganet.com>
To: A. Joseph Ross <lawyer@world.std.com>; dan.strassberg@att.net
<dan.strassberg@att.net>; bri@bostonradio.org <bri@bostonradio.org>
Date: Friday, October 27, 2000 2:54 AM
Subject: Re: Conelrad question


>
>And did anyone think of making the TV and FM (as few as there were, major
>cities had them) stations, police radios, aircraft NDBs, LF ranges, and
>numerous other point sources of RF gather on common frequencies to
alternate
>on-off in random cycles? Or of shutting down the earth's magnetic field?