CONELRAD - "REAL THING"

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Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• CONELRAD
• REAL
• THING
• EMERGENCY
• BROADCAST

[netsurferx1]

"...This station will now leave the air."

[TithonusSyndrome]

@netsurferx1 That gives me the fucking creeps. He might as well be saying "civilization has now ended. Good luck".

[heehawkdown]

I wonder if the Russians had a similar warning system? Maybe called KOMMERAD? lol.

[SteamyshotofFUN]

@sr71ablackbird With the talk of Iran's Nuclear program, you may be right.

[sr71ablackbird]

@SteamyshotofFUN don't hold your breath, it just may.

[kingbushwickthe33rd]

So Drop Your Pants;Bend Over and Kiss Your Ass Buh Bye!!

[PancakesoftheLove]

Even the alert tone feels very... endgame. Somber. They knew when making this that the only reason it'd be played was, well... the end. You can just tell.

The fact that they even labeled it with the words "REAL THING" just makes it even more chilling. It's easy to put the past behind us and forget the gloom and doom atmosphere of the Cold War.

[3zy]

I still have a (non-working) transistor radio around here manufactured with 640 and 1240 marked on the dials so you could find it in a screaming hurry. CONELRAD was serious business.

[EdWatts]

@SteamyshotofFUN

Yet.

[pabsungenis]

@jednoucelovy 600 and 1200 had too many regular radio stations on or near them, channels having been allocated decades before the advent of the bomb. 640 and 1240 were chosen because they were relatively clear.

For example, if CONELRAD had been placed on 1200 and WCAU in Philadelphia hadn't signed off and switched their frequency for some reason (missing the action notification) then their signal on 1210 would have interfered with CONELRAD throughout the North East.