[BC] Open Mike ooops

[Tom]

I was supposed to do sign-on when the famous OOOPSIE from Cheyenne 
Mountain happened in '70 - a lot of stations ignored the alert, because 
it happened at the normally-scheduled test time; others activated.  
Pointed out the biggest flaw in the original EBS system - the operators.

The later, revised EBS (two-tome alert, rather than the 
double-carrier-drop-and-tone inherited from Conelrad) wasn't much of an 
improvement... and the EAS isn't really much better.  ANY Emergency 
Broadcast System will only be as good as the worst person / entity in 
the chain, although the present system at least does have redundancies 
the older systems didn't.



dynotherm at earthlink.net wrote:
> TEN  bells were actually rung on a Saturday night in October
> 1962 by WHCA when they transmitted a Presidential Directive
> warning to all ConelraD authorized stations to prepare for 
> NO DRILL activation of the system any time after 10 AM EDT
> the next morning
-- 
Tom Spencer
PG-18-25453 (nee' P1-18-48841)
http://radioxtz.com/
Part 15 transmitters on AM 640 and FM 100.1