[BC] Usefulness of EAS

[Jim Tonne]

On 6/15/2012 10:07 AM, Alan Peterson wrote:
>>>> JimT told us:
> This way, the signal on 640 (and also the signal on 1240) would appear to be
> coming from various locations and so was useless for navigation.<<<
>
> I wasn't in radio when CONELRAD was a valid and active process, but it always seemed to me that, even in the days of small thermonuke weapons, an incoming missile could just latch on to *one* of the 640s or 1240s before the frequency rotated locations, say to itself "close enough!", and still manage to toast everything in a five-mile radius. Even a confused missile will faw down and go boom.
>

This was way before missiles were the delivery vehicle of choice!
And it was just as "thermonukes" were being developed.
It was airplanes and atom bombs.
Times have changed!   Largely for the worse, I am afraid.

- JimT