[BC] Usefulness of EAS

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

CONELRAD was quite different. All stations except those on two frequencies would be off the air. The stations on 640 and 1240 had direct lines from the Pentagon and the Chief Engineer (they had those in those days) was to monitor those lines in the case of an emergency. If the Command Center said, turn off the transmitter, you turned off the transmitter. The idea was to shut down everything except a select few since there were only a handful of stations on 640 and 1240. This was to prevent the Russians from homing in on US radio stations. The 640 and 1240 stations would broadcast emergency information from their networks, including wire-line networks. There was no attempt to control information, only to supplement it.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: sids1045 at aol.com

Richard B. Johnson states:  "President Obama has demanded a switch that he can throw that instantly connects every radio, television, telephone, and communications device to his dulcet tones so he can instruct a captive audience with whatever "knowledge" he demands to impart.
 
Move along.  Nothing new here.
 
Yes, we know President Obama is evil and wicked.  I guess President Eisenhower, who demanded the exact same right of access to all radio and television in a national emergency, thus willing Conelrad into being, must have been equally evil and wicked.