Conelrad

Zundfolge1432 · Samba Member Joined: June 13, 2004 Posts: 12468

do you remember conelrad? It stood for control of electromagnetic radiation and was also known as the key station system. It was an arrangement whereby the government could communicate by radio with the civilian population of the United States of America in the event of nuclear war. Some of you may recall a period of time known as the Cold War. Conelrad was intended not only to provide an emergency information system for the public , but simultaneously prevent the enemy from using radio signals to home in on cities. From 1953 to 1963 federal law said every radio manufactured in the U.S.A. Had to have a conelrad emblem on the dial. To signify where the emergency station was. The conelrad rad emblem looks like a circle with a triangle inside and is located between AM band 550 and 700. Another existed between 1200 and 1400. Perhaps this is useless information now but next time you see that old radio you'll know what that symbol means . Duck and cover everyone.

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79SuperVert · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 7:48 am Post subject:

Here's another sign of those times you don't see any more:

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Brian · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 12:50 pm Post subject:

What a time to live in

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Glenn · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:01 pm Post subject:

I grew up 14 miles from the Empire State Building which was considered ground zero.

If there was an attack, I wouldn't of had time to duck and kiss my ass goodbye.
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KTPhil · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 1:21 pm Post subject:

Yeah, we had duck and cover drills, films about how to survive in your bomb shelter. Last Friday of each month at 10AM the air raid sirens were tested.

http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/10/air_raid_sirens.php

And now we have this site for nostalgia:

http://www.conelrad.com/index.php

Ratt · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2015 11:05 pm Post subject:

TimGud · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 8:45 am Post subject:

Randall · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:57 pm Post subject: Re: Conelrad

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morymob · Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:02 am Post subject:

50's, hi school, best time area ever, we ignored those drills, who shoots at mountains anyway. Those Nike sites (Pittsburgh 3yrs ( actually pretty deadly, especially the Hercules version, 24 hr duty got exciting most times.Trade now 4 then anyday.

79SuperVert · Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2015 12:53 pm Post subject:

Bringing back this thread because of something else I saw: is the presence of the conelrad triangles on a radio dial a reliable indicator that the radio was built between 1953 and 1963? Or did the triangles linger on past 1963? I'm wondering because my Blaupunkt Frankfurt has those triangles and it would help to date the radio.

Edit: Looking around the internet it appears Conelrad was replaced by the Emergency Broadcasting System in 1963 so it would seem reasonable to assume radio makers would have dropped the triangles after 1963.
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Junkyardjockey · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 6:24 pm Post subject:

I lived within 3-4 miles of the runway of a SAC base near Rome, NY called Griffiss AFB, home of the 416th BMW. Lots of B-52's, KC-135's & F-106's, and a backup base to NORAD. Long range bomber bases were sure one of the 1st to go, and with the addition of NEADS (northeast air defense sector) to complement NORAD made it even a bigger target. I would have been lucky to even hear a noise before I went "POOF!" Now the bomb wing is gone,along with the 49th FIS; the base is now an industrial park & all that's left is NEADS. In my opinion that's still a strategic target; lots of people don't realize that!
After Conelrad was replaced by the EBS, EBS was replaced by the EAS (emergency alert system).
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bigdog1962 · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 5:20 am Post subject:

My dad built a "bomb shelter" underneath our house - really it was just a place dug out underneath the house. He worked for DuPont which was long known as "the bomb plant" where they processed plutonium.

campism · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 7:25 am Post subject:

Ah, the good old days. Gives the phrase Burning Man a whole new old meaning.
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Malokin Martin · Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 7:57 am Post subject:

Under my grade school there's an abandoned fallout shelter from way way back. It's basically huge round tunnels. To this day I hear it's pretty in tact, though last time I actually saw it was like 1995. Even the shower stalls and kitchen (etc.) were still there.

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janerick3 · Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 3:11 pm Post subject:

Blaupunkt X-series radios (1966-67) made for the U.S. market still had the CONELRAD symbols on the dial.
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