[BC] Usefulness of EAS

[Rob Landry]

I thought the idea was for all stations to stay on the air but QSY to 640 
or 1240 so that incoming bombers could not use the signals as navigation 
beacons.

Rob

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, RichardBJohnson at comcast.net wrote:

> 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.