[Moccasin]

Then why not run it at 2 AM? If they are just testing to see if it works or not, then the time shouldn't matter. This is a show of power.

Because then you'd have to pay technicians, monitors, and programmers to stay up and see what happened. Why not have it in the middle of the day, when those people are on duty anyway and the effects can be seen nationwide?

Some of you are so paranoid and ready to take offense at the slightest possible opportunity, I wonder you don't accuse yourselves of treason and shoot yourselves in rage.

 

[Moccasin]

So. 30 seconds of the usual sort of EBS noise and announcements. No Internet kill, no declaration of martial law, no the end of civilization as we know it.

I know some of you are TERRIBLY disappointed you don't get to fulfill your Ramboese fantasies, but life is tough.

 

[Moccasin]

I have had two people tell me the Internet will go down at the same time. Is this total B. S. or is it something that is just not advertised? Any body got answers or even just a good guess?
BCB

BS. The wackos are flocking to this like flies to fresh dog crap. Both the flies and the crap are of greater value than the wackos.

 

[Moccasin]

Yes, CONELRAD: CONtrol of ELectronic RADiation. 640 and 1240 on your radio dial. The radios back then had little "triangle in a circle" Civil Defense symbols on them to help you tune to the correct frequency. However, back then I don't remember "all civilian communications" being interrupted. Does this include all the amateur radios, business, radios, CBs, etc.......?

I don't recall there ever being a nation wide test; I'm not sure they'd have actually done one, as the main idea behind CONELRAD was to get all the radio and TV stations off the air except for brief, low power transmissions so the Soviets couldn't home in on the radio signals with bombs. Which was ludicrous even back then, a WWII tactic that meant nothing in a era when internal guidance systems would send missles where the launching nation wanted them to go, and bombers would be shot from the sky. Also, keep in mind that TV and AM/FM radio *were* 99 44/100th percent of civilian (broadcast) communications back then, if you discounted the telephone. HAMs were an esoteric, mysterious bunch; telegraphs didn't count; and neither did newspapers or magazines. You didn't need to test such a system, just make sure everyone knew to shut down when the government said to shut down, and only broadcast at pre-set times...