[BC] Usefulness of EAS

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Some times I don't get it right because I have been taught wrong. Paul Gregg wrote me a note saying, amongst other things, that during the period from 1946 to 1957 he was the CE of KWBR, a key station for the 1240 group. He built up equipment to actually switch frequencies in a RCA BTA-1L.

Therefore, to the zillions who said I was wrong. I was wrong I certainly do not know how one is going to re-tune an ATU of a short stick on 1400 to operate on 1240 with the flick of a switch without switching in an entirely different unit and one certainly cannot re-tune many of the complicated beasts of the day.

Earl Hewingson's transmitter at WTYM was at 1600 kHz and he was supposed to transmit at 1240 in an emergency. He used an entirely different transmitter (a BC-610) and was never able to correctly match it into the tower. It was from him that I "learned" that they don't actually change frequencies, but transmitters.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Broadcast List USER" <Broadcast at fetrow.org>

> From: RichardBJohnson at comcast.net
> Do not believe Wikipedia. No station -- none, ever switched to 640 or 1240 kc/s for CONELRAD.

I disagree.  I have one recording of it working.  I worked at stations  
that had the crystal set up in them.  I visited a station that not  
only had it installed but demonstrated it.

The recording is pretty amazing.

--chip