Posted on 10/12/2011 12:40:29 PM PDT by TaraP
All,
Dropping everything now to go stock up on tinfoil. Back later.
FRegards
Elenin?
The asteroid will come no closer than 202,000 miles to the Earth, and there is no chance of it hitting the earth for at least the next 100 years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_YU55
Apparently it’s an Elenin and YU55 conspiracy. But don’t waste a good rapture! Advertise here now!
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I’ll be sure and tune to 640 on my dial. Or was it 1240?
CONELRAD
To be quite honest, this is a GOOD idea.
When the EAS was the good ol’ EBS, to the best of my knowledge it was NEVER tested on a national scale. If you worked at a radio station, you were supposed to be up on any situation the EBS could throw at you. (As a former deejay, I did happen to read the EBS Manual the FCC provided to all radio stations. I even played our station’s “end of the world” cart tape to hear what it sounded like. Chilled me to the bone.)
A national test of the EAS could show if there are any bugs in the system and to see if it actually works as planned. Yes, those who think this could be a way for Barry the Boob to issue ‘proclamations’ will think what they will, but I still think it’s a good idea.
Very funny..
Time will only tell IMHO....
Do you remember what the EOTW message said? Can you tell us?
Sooo- Barry the Imposter is giving us a year’s warning that he will declare Martial Law??? Good luck, phony.
Thank goodness. I feel much better. Although with the words "Advertise Here" in Larry's post I was afraid it was some kind of nefarious bloggers conspiracy.
;-)
It just was basically from a script provided by the FCC that said that it was a national emergency as ordered by the President. It also said we’d remain on the air and would pass on important information and news, and to stand by for further instructions. It was designed to be played over and over again until either A) we’d received further instructions or B) we vaporized in a nuclear fireball.
When you’re sitting in a radio studio, you’re alone, and it’s 2 o’clock in the morning, and you’re listening to this...it’ll give you the screaming willies.
I actually DID have to relay an EBS message once. It was weather-related. I was alone on a weekend, and it was dark, rainy, and windy. All of a sudden, I hear the two-tone EBS signal go off BEHIND me. I nearly jumped out of my skin! What happened was that we monitored the Primary station for our area and when THEY fire off the tone, the monitor triggered in our instrument rack behind the operator and relayed the tone and message until we reset it when the message was done. Our engineer rigged a tape recorder to automatically start whenever the monitor went off. All I had to do was rewind the tape, cue it to the message, pot down the music, and say in my most serious and stentorian tones...
“We interrupt this program for a local emergency. Important information will follow.”
I then hit the EBS Tone button on our board, waited until it stopped, then played the message. It was something about high winds and power outages. When it was done, I fired a station ID and played the next song in rotation. After I’d logged it, I then attempted to re-start my heart and get my breath back with the firm knowledge that I NEVER wanted to do that ever again.
I’ve heard that aircheck before. I can only imagine what was going through their heads as this unfolded.
And, when I read the website that you posted with all the links about what happened that day, I found out I was ‘sort-of’ wrong about the system having never been tested nationally. In 1956, there was a national test of the CONELRAD system. It wasn’t the same as the EBS, but it was national, and stations actually signed off or re-tuned to their assigned CONELRAD frequencies. It only lasted about 15 minutes.
Wild. I had never heard of that before. Of course I was only a year old at the time.
Thanks for telling us. You write well, it was a good read.
that.s where you are wrong it will pass .099 ld
which would make it about 2000 miles
I also did some research into the national test. Some things i learned:
1) Neither voice nor image of Barry the Boob will be used in this test. Thank God for small favors.
2) The message is going to be audio only. TV stations will be carrying it, but there is NO standard format for what the station will show on screen...some will be blank. I can just imagine some 80-year-old grandma who had no clue this was coming down, seeing her TV go blank and hearing the activation “quacks” and having a good solid heart attack, thinking it’s Doomsday.
3) State and local emergency messages are limited at all times to 2 minutes. Presidential messages are unlimited. For the sake of this test, it will last 3 minutes.
4) They plan on doing this every year.
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