Test Your Age and Your Gear's Age

[Scorpion8]

Don't know how many analog tuner fans we have here, but I prefer them over digital tuners in most of my equipment. One thing on some gear though, is these two small marks on the AM tuner dial (mostly on portable equipment).

http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p141/Scorpion008/Conelrad.jpg

Let's see who's a geezer, and who's a brain. Anyone recall what these marks were there for, when they came about and when they disappeared?

[Web Police]

It wouldn't have something to do with WPGC would it? :-?

[Scorpion8]

It wouldn't have something to do with WPGC would it? :-?

Whassat? *???*

[Web Police]

I thought it was station call letters nickname they gave to Conelrad frequencies. during the cold war?

[retrokeeper]

Are they marking the location of civil defense channels in case of disaster or war? Rob

[Scorpion8]

Too easy then, eh?

CONELRAD
Conelrad, as a baby boomer will be happy to tell you, was the Government's acronym for what became the Emergency Broadcast System, at 640 and 1240 AM on the radio. Short for Control of Electromagnetic Radiation, it existed from 1951 to 1963 as a way of shifting the broadcast frequencies of AM stations to prevent enemy aircraft from homing in on radio signals for navigation. In the event of a nuclear attack, those frequencies were where Arthur Godfrey's message and all other Government emergency instructions were to have been broadcast.

[Web Police]

No it definitely was a great question. I had seen those markings on a portable radio before and had investigated them to find out more about them. Those guys were really on the ball way back then. It brings back memories of the old simple days before digital and GPS when navigation was done by sight the stars and or radio signal homing. :)

[Scorpion8]

For some old nostalgia about the glory days of fallout shelters and such, try: http://www.conelrad.com/index.php

[stuwee]

Damn pipped at the post again, I knew that ! *old*
I remember the halarious drill of when the air raid sirens went off(later used for the much more effective Tornado Warnings) we all went to the concrete hallway and squated against the wall with heads tucked between our knees,hands and arms protectively over our heads.....except the young stuwster, I stood in the doorway :-oo:-oo !! The teach would ask, "Craig, what in Gods name are ya doin'"? I'd say " we're all gonna die, it's a nuclear F'n bomb ya Dumb A$$" *devil* I'd spend the rest of the drill in the principals office, again *Hi5* At least my arms and legs weren't all cramped like the rest of the dumb asses!!!!

[niklasthedolphin]

I prefer analogue tuners indeed.

If I were to go buy one today, my choise would be either, Day Sequerra Studio, Magnum Dynalab MD-109 or Tandberg TPT 3001A.

I've got the latter.

"dolph"

[MacGyver]

Damn pipped at the post again, I knew that ! *old*
I remember the halarious drill of when the air raid sirens went off(later used for the much more effective Tornado Warnings) we all went to the concrete hallway and squated against the wall with heads tucked between our knees,hands and arms protectively over our heads.....except the young stuwster, I stood in the doorway :-oo:-oo !! The teach would ask, "Craig, what in Gods name are ya doin'"? I'd say " we're all gonna die, it's a nuclear F'n bomb ya Dumb A$$" *devil* I'd spend the rest of the drill in the principals office, again *Hi5* At least my arms and legs weren't all cramped like the rest of the dumb asses!!!!

oooo, the stuwster was a badass in his youth, eh? did he wear his sunglasses at night? go to your room and think about what you have done, you impertient rapscallion!!!!*whipslap*

[Scorpion8]

Hey, I lived in Freidberg, W.Germany at an Army base in 1968. We had a fallout shelter stocked with food in our basement, as we were 10-minutes from the line in the heart of the Fulda Gap that US Forces had vowed to defend. At that point the Soviets and clients had something like 30 Divisions opposing the US and West German Armies 5 Divisions in that zone, but the fact that quality-over-quantity didn't always win wasn't apparent until much later. Yea, we were scared, and I remember for a long time looking for Fallout Shelter yellow-and-black signs wherever we went.

Ah, the good old days of the Cold War .....