No Second Chance: A Radio Dramatization About CONELRAD
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- čas přidán 17. 01. 2011
- "No Second Chance" Conelrad in "practice" radio public service drama / documentary.
1955
Written by Jack Kessler
Directed by Eric Howlett
Produced by the National Office of Civil Defense by WJR Detroit
"For the purpose of this demonstration, you are on Earth."
Neat, always wanted to go there
The natives are mostly friendly, but they have some odd customs. One of these is called an "election". In it, two people that nobody likes have a contest to see which one of them will get to make bad decisions for all the people for the next four years.
+almostfm 😂 Well explained!
Mostly Harmless.
Lewis Burmeister And as always: Don't Panic.
YerALizard no you don't. Heard its full of idiots. Lots of idiots.
The announcer struggles to keep a straight face 😂
So true hermano!🤣
3:37
I love how she's just smiling while the radio tells you to take cover
I remember that one of my family’s cars - well, the oldest car that for some reason my father never let go of - and the triangular civil defense triangles imprinted on the car’s radio tuner. I remember asking what they were and him explaining them to me.
Narrator: You are in the cockpit of an enemy bomber...
Bomber: DA...IS MOOSE AND SQUIRREL!
Ironically, I have eaten both moose and squirrel in my past. Moose is especially tasty!
Fascinating and frightening at the same time.
My Great Uncle was a Civil Defense worker because he worked for Detroit Water and Sewage during the Cold War.
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Ah I see your a man of culture as well.
Makin'me wanna eat cans of beans and sardines an read ol' stacks of magazines with the radio on...
check out the film "panic in year zero" its got conelrad scenes.
I have it on DVD
9:42 that shelter would make a SWEET man cave in 2019! Or a good tornado shelter.
I remember hearing that same tone on EBS tests on TV in the early 70's.
Not quite. That's a 1000 Htz tone. EBS used 853 and 960 Htz tones.
@@latioshoenn3698 Thanks for that technical tidbit. I'd been curious about that for ages!
That was very comforting.
CONELRAD Radio, one of the best stations in the Mojave wasteland.
the old civil defense is a lot better than what we have today
Yup its true I hate those new ones in 2019 when most station just show news even some not show EAS or even conelrad which it was back even EBS
Wrong. The current system works way better, as mass media can get messages out easily.
ERRRR ERRRR ERRRR IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Totally agreed! I mean the sound alone that goes off for an EAS alert causes more "panic" in my mind than any message they could deliver via a later alert...
BTW IK WJR, is quite close to me...
There's a mod for FO:NV that is a CONELRAD radio station. plays good tunes, and has CivDef commercials breaking it up a bit. There's also a player house that's a CONELRAD broadcasting station on the way up to Jacobstown
You know the radio in Russia is crappy when a pilot will fly all the way to America to hear a decent tune!
I really hope they play such jaunty music before telling us we’re all going to die.
I doubt they will. I expect they will play Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" and "Mack the Knife" before lying to us and saying that there will be no damage to the US. Three minutes later, the nukes start falling out of the sky and everyone in the US will be dead within ten minutes after the country takes 1,000,000 MT of nuclear bombs. They will not have lied about stating that we blew Russia off of the globe, though. Radiation then blows throughout the planet and absolutely everyone else dies from radiation sickness within two weeks.
we must have CONELRAD ! LOL
I could imagine some people may think it's real like "War Of The Worlds".
Ut OH I hear the warning sound, wait for the flash... okay your history
The Long Beeps sounds something at the Hospital when someone dies in the Emergency room or operating room in the Hospital . But sounds like the Stand by tone on Television we hear today
That's why they changed the EBS tones from 1kHz. It's the same tone used to normalize volume when TV or radio stations are signing on or off.
“More brackish canned water, kids?” Yum!
I have actually drank unflavored, canned water from the era (during that era). It tasted just like the can, it was extremely metallic, I don't even know if it was actually safe to consume. The US Government used to supply it to nuclear war shelters in 55 gallon drums with a hand pump that would be used to remove the water a cup at a time. Canned food and hardtack crackers were also provided.
Conelrad then the Emergency Broadcast System then as we all know today the Emergency Alert System
Also known as *KYAB* -
*K* iss
*Y* our
*A* ss
*G* ooodbye
@@daryllect6659 that made me chuckle lol
@@daryllect6659 Do you live near a primary target or something like that ?
@@markkrause4407 During the Cold War I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area between a NIKE missile base in Castro valley and one at the Marin headlands. Near Alameda Naval Air station and Titan missile silos outside of Chico, Beale Air Force base in Sacramento, so yeah, I imagine I lived in an area considered a "Primary".
@@daryllect6659 But now you live in the county ? If you stay in the shelter for 2 weeks and live in the country things might not be happy but it is not doomsday .
Conelrad stands for CONtrolled ELectromagnetic RADiation.
Sounds a bit silly, imo. CONtrolled ELectromagnetic RADiation sounds like it can boil down to "radio broadcast"
From Wikipedia : CONELRAD (Control of Electromagnetic Radiation)
@@tachyon8317 Thats what the site Wikipedia says: CONELRAD (Control of Electromagnetic Radiation)
@@coloradostrong I'm sure Wiki is right. My 1960s evacuation guide says 'controlled' though.
this did not go over well in Hawaii
I remember this people building bomb shelters and once a month the air raid sirens would sound and we did a duck and cover drill.
Would be kinda neat if WJR, the station which produced this, played it on-air, say around lunchtime.
The Jet bombers sure are noisy!
Ahhhh! Attention tone!!! On CONELRAD!
"CONELRAD.. ask for it by name!"
I feel a lot safer after watching this.
At least you got something chaps, us in the Uk Had a newspaper and kiss your ass good bye lol.
Actually, there was provision for the BBC to broadcast emergency news from the 1960's onward. The Brits didn't bother with switching radio transmitter facilities every five seconds, though. I think television stations also were to remain on air warning of incoming nukes as long as possible as well. The BBC also had provision for emergency radio stations with transmitters somehow kept completely underground for after a nuke bombing. I don't know how they dealt with the pesky problem of also having the antenna underground which would have greatly kneecapped the station's transmission range.
We need Conelrad in todays world. The Weather band FM Fema type broadcasts just don't cut it. Even though most people would run around like chickens with their heads cut off, it would be an aid to the wise.
We call them liberals
There is EAS, i dont know what its like though, im european we don't have eas
@@Dread_Pirate_Homesteader Or Trumpy Wumpy voters.
???? We all get text, TV, radio alerts , and even the signs on our freeways. We're much better now
I am fortunate to live in an area with NWS radio service. Most of us can't say that but since reception requires a special radio capable of receiving NWS broadcasts and most people don't know this service even exists maybe we shouldn't depend on it for emergency broadcasts of this type.
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i live about 1 mile from the transmitting tower of wjr
Cool!! Do they have any type of museum and/or historical information for the public?
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Is there a difference between an official alert vs an unofficial alert?
Imagine the trouble Russian bombers have to go though just to get decent radio!
14:00 asbestos floor tile ! So EAS is going to tell us what , when ?
The russians just wanted to hear some rock music they don't have it there!
The story with CONELRAD is much better and more interesting than the version that exists now, but an advanced warning system, especially one that's effective during the much more frequent (than nuclear attack, anyways) natural disasters like tornados and hurricanes is so much more helpful. This is probably the ONLY modern thing I will freely agree is better than any obsolete version for everyone.
What did they do w/this frequency once the Cold War ended? Is it still in use for national emergencies?
Nope, it was stopped in 1963 as missile replaced bombers, so the Conelrad system had no use (it was mainly to prevent bomber to home in using radio signals from the "non-conelrad" stations).
It was replaced by the Emergency Broadcast System from 1963 to 1997, then the Emergency Alert System (used for all national emergencies).
Yassine Saïdi Ah. tysvm 4 the info. My dad's a HAM radio operator,and he helps out locally,with info after storms and such,but I didn't know what the current national system was. The info is much appreciated! I feel old,they stopped the second system the year I graduated high school,lol.
But you could use it for pranks or Radio Navigation.
Yassine Saïdi was it used for severe thunderstorm/tornado warnings?
***** LOL! ;-)
6:13 Meanwhile, at the Legion of Doom …
Since the CONELRAD frequencies are known, what would keep the enemy from broadcasting on these frequencies and saying they are CONELRAD?
+warden phil Damn your logical mind, Spock!
No because it's outdated
Because back in the day, an AM transmitter that was powerful enough to override all of the stations in the area would have been huge. I used to work at a station where the AM transmitter was 5 kw and from about the same time period. It was the size of a minivan, but considerably heavier. From what I was told by some of the old-timers there, they laid the slab for the foundation, put the transmitter in, and then built the building around it
It's still the case. Size matters in transmission. No way a radio transmitter in Russia or in a plane could override local stations.
"There is no nuclear attack. Go outside and stand in open area and enjoy sunlight. Soon there will be much sunlight, comrades... oh, bugger!"
Same announcer from War of the Worlds?
Maybe
Great, now in addition to global thermonuclear war, I'm afraid of molasses.
The planes are traveling faster than the speed of sound...the plane should come back and get the sound...its too noisy.
Was Conelrad an acronym or a brand name?
Acronym for CON trol of EL ectromagnetic RAD iation
I think the US gave up on CONELRAD after Carl Sagan mathematically plotted how screwed humanity was by the 70s when NATO and the USSR had Gigatons of nukes at their disposal.
Conelrad was perhaps useful when aircraft were delivering bombs. There there was time for warning and to prepare. But once submarine and intercontinental ballistic missiles were going to deliver the bombs, conelrad was pretty useless.
At 10:56, Mrs. Survival, in the fallout shelter, is wearing a most disconcerting smile...Perhaps, she just "got hit with The Big One", and a mere nuclear strike was, ahem, anticlimactic!
Glad to see absolutely no one in this comment section is being normal about this 🙄 For something as serious as annihilation I really expected better
The fairytales are still the same though!
This is an official message from CONELRAD. *"WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!"*
This is an official message from CONELRAD, also simulcast in the USSR: "We just wiped Moscow and Kaliningrad off of the globe with 50 nukes blowing them to smithereens. Khrushchev is now dead and the former USSR is now US territory. All USSR Communist Party members are to report to the nearest GULAG location for re-education and torture. The torture will be ten times worse for you if you don't report voluntarily and we have to go kidnap you."
I have a question why did they only have two radio station only
It was to keep as much radio frequency space open for emergency communications and also to confuse the Soviet Union tracking radar on the US by changing back & forth between 2 radio stations every few minutes to make it harder (or so they thought) for them to hone in on our signal & location. (It reportedly had so many unknown issues that it wouldn't have worked then anyway.) By Federal law & FCC mandate if this would've happened every station (TV, radio, amateur, CB, etc.) would all be required to immediately cease all use except for a select few frequencies for emergency messages
During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese pilots used Honolulu radio stations to set their direction. Up until the late 50's, radio direction was the preferred method for navigation. With advances in inertial navigation, the need for CONELRAD was removed.
+Dot Matirx Not two stations...two frequencies, with dozens of stations on each.
Dot Matrix The whole point of CONELRAD was to provide well-known frequencies for information and instructions, while simultaneously shutting down as much radio traffic as possible. Ideally, there'd only be ONE frequency, but having two provides a critical backup, as well as providing generous range overlap, to allow the messages to reach as much of the population as possible with minimum radio traffic for the enemy to home in on.
Scott Hoagland The Pentagon realized fairly early that it was possible to use the CONELRAD system to locate cities using - I want to say ganged ADF receivers; I don’t have my reference with me at 4 AM. After the fall of Communism, it turned out that the Red Army figured it out before they did. It hardly matters, since Sputnik made the entire program obsolescent.
Even if Sputnik had never launched, though, it’s likely something new would have been developed. CONELRAD tests involved the station switching its transmitter on and off fairly rapidly, which often resulted in stations going off the air for days because some tube blew out. (The entire reason we have or had daytime TV, the Indian head test pattern, the Tea Time Movie, Thought For The Day, Saturday morning cartoons, etc., is because old tube transmitters don’t like to be switched on or off. It was cheaper to waste electricity and put something on the air (if only a test pattern or old movie) than to shut the transmitter down during the day and risk blowing an expensive tube.)
I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY HOW THEY REFERRED TO THE INCOMING BOMBERS AS ANGELS INCOMING AT 35, OOO FEET!! WHAT??!! ANGELS AT 35,000 FEET...........ANGELS......BOMBERS DROPPING HELL ON OUR HEAD'S.....AND HE'S CALLING THEM ANGELS!!! THAT'S KIND OF FUNNY!!!
Idiots post in upper case.
@@daryllect6659 NOW...NOW...SKIPPY, GET YOUR PANTIES OUT OF YOUR ASS CRACK!! I DIDN'T KNOW BIG MOUTH KARENS COULD EVEN SPELL LET A LOAN READ!!!
BUT, IF IT BUGS YOU SO MUCH......I AM GLAD I DID IT SKIPPY!!!
NO WAIT I WILL TELL YOU WHY I DO THAT BUT IT WON'T CHANGE YOUR NARROW MIND ONE BIT!!!
I HAVE BAD VISION UPPER CASE LETTERS MAKES IT EASIER FOR ME TO SEE WHAT I'M TYPING!!!
DOES IT MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER TO TRY AND POINT OUT SOMETHING OF ANOTHER HUMAN TO MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOUR SELF?
OK SKIPPY I HAVE BAD EYESIGHT........FEEL BETTER?
BUT YOU KNOW THE OLD SAYING......OPINIONS ARE LIKE ASSHOLES EVERYBODY HAS ONE!!!
SO IN CLOSING EVERYONE PAT SKIPPY ON THE BACK HE POINTED OUT A FLAW OF MINE!!!
FEEL BETTER SKIPPY?
Should have said “bandits” not “angels.”
Wrong, Jimmy boy. Angels means altitude of the unidentified aircraft (OMG! it is a UFO!) in thousands of feet. It the targets were low to the ground, Cherubs would be used for altitudes in hundreds of feet.
Angels has been in use for at least 80 years.
@@captainjohnh9405 JIMMY BOY WHERE THE HELL YOU FROM WALTONS MOUNTAIN? LOL
this has pure fallout vibes
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Wow! hope the Russian bomber found a great radio station .. hope he likes twenty one pilots!
Juan Carlos Miguel Santos I GET YOU
The Soviets would totally be _stressed out_ if they didn't reach their target.
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
And Fallout Boy.
The heavens declare the glory of the Bomb, and the firmament showeth Its handiwork. Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. May the Blessings of the Bomb Almighty, and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout, descend upon us all. This day and forever more. Amen.
Paul Richards as Mendez in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes", 1970
F off
You blew it up! Damn you all to hell!
children of atom be like
I'm making a radio show like this for my new EAS concept I plan to propose. Project EAS is for your benefit--"Less Scary, More Informative". You won't get scared for a test, and in an emergency like an air attack, there will be a special "Emergency Mode" to alert TV and radio listeners of any emergency info. The first show will explain how the Emergency Action Notification alert (classified in Code Black) will be received and what to do when you hear the siren on TV or radio.
This new EAS is based on an idea I got from a guy named kaizersolze. He did the basic design and I am improving his idea. However, with my current movie under production, Project EAS will be a little delayed for now, but (spoiler) it will be seen in that movie. Also, something new is that the outdoor warning sirens are equipped with colored lights to show the severity of the problem and will flash until the "all clear".
I wonder what ANTENNA looks like on the dial in Russian.
aHteHHa
I don't have a Cyrillic keyboard but I bet it has funny looking backwards capital Rs and backwards capital Ns. It also likely had a vodka advertisement within it.
The US govt. put a lot of time, effort and money into trying to convince the public that a nuclear war was survivable - even winnable. Heh...simpler times, I guess.
you have to remember that then, when conelrad was introduced, the soviets didn't have that many bombs and their ability to deliver them on target was poor. So most of the country would have not been bombed. Just strategic targets. The rest of the country just had to protect against fallout, which degrades to a relatively safe level after two weeks. Once the Soviets had enough bombs to blanket the country, the survivability of a nuclear war changed.
The code word for today is SHIT !
Any Fallout fans here? Just a thought. ☢️
That record is obnoxious.
You do not have a first chance either.