#conelrad

[stone-cold-groove]

U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration’s CONELRAD brochure - 1957.

[miscpav]

EBS Attack Warning

Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) pre-recorded Attack Warning message (repeated twice here, second at higher volume) sourced from the National Archives, Record Group 311. Audio file title as issued by NARA: 311-005. This tape was likely produced during the LBJ or Nixon administrations, though we do not know the exact year.

[sound-notes]

Fox stands accused of playing the Emergency Alert System attention tone to promote an NFL show on dozens of TV channels.

[livinginteo]

It was my birthday today! (12/28)

In honor of that, here is Fin Fin singing happy birthday! Thank you so much to Grant/conelrad for sharing this on my Discord!

[broadcastarchive-umd]

The Emergency Broadcast System (EBS), sometimes called the Emergency Broadcasting System or the Emergency Action Notification System (EANS), was an emergency warning system used in the United States. It replaced the previous CONELRAD system and was used from 1963 to 1997, at which point it was replaced by the Emergency Alert System. (Wikipedia)

From a National Association of Broadcasters trade show, circa 1970s. 

Library of American Broadcasting archives  |  Tumblr Archive  

[anna-neko]

Fallout: New Vegas is FREE on Epic Store until the 1st of June do yourself a favor and go play!

good mod options to add immediately: New Vegas Uncut - restores a LOT of cut content from abandoned code to best of their abilities, fixes up some 'broken' things too

Old World Radio, CONELRAD Civil Defense Radio - moar soundtrack for ya wanderings

Dead Money: No Collar Explosion - just in case you're like me who hated teh sudden game mechanics switch so late. Listen, Sierra Madre has some fascinating story, but when you been conditioned to certain in-world play mechanics for hundreds of hours..... its jarring

see ya out in the Mojave Wasteland

[stone-cold-groove]

U.S. Federal Civil Defense Administration’s CONELRAD brochure - 1957.

[transmissionsfromthebattlefield]

From CONELRAD on Facebook: “16-year-old Louise Hertzmark of Milton, Mass believes "fallout shelters are ridiculous." "Man isn't worth saving if he's rotten enough to try and destroy himself." Teen Views, Boston Globe, published on this day in 1962. Ms. Hertzmark is now a widely cited biostatistician at Harvard University.”

[onehandtypingb1]

Two Towns in The Hawkeye State #socs

Source: Wikipedia, Public Domain When I saw today’s prompt, the first thing that jumped into my head was, naturally, CONELRAD, an acronym for CONtrol of ELectromagnetic RADiation. Thinking about it, though, I’ve already talked that topic to death here (search for it if you don’t believe me), so I wanted to do something else. There are, naturally, many, many, MANY Federal and state bureaucracies…

[theearlywarning]

Historic Finds: CONELRAD Marked Motorola Radio c. 1961, Civil Defense Warden Patch

Today I went to Dallas with some very close fiends of mine and came across a curiosity shop. Man oh man have I got some unexpected treasures to share.

I normally rummage through antique shops in search of Cuban Missile Crisis-to-Cold War Civil Defense items like this, but I never thought to look in a novelty shop. I am so very jazzed. I’ve been searching all over for treasures like the ones I got today.

Let’s start with the first one. My friends helped sniff this thing out.

This Motorola B2G solid state radio is characteristic of the late 1950s to early 60s. It even looks to be made of the then-popular Bakelite if I’m not mistaken.It has a functioning AM band while the FM band doesn’t seem to work.

What’s in a radio that has so much to do with Civil Defense you might ask? Take a closer look at the dial:

Note the encircled triangle icons on the 640 and 1240 kilocycle areas. These are standard issue CONELRAD markings that showed the listener where to tune the radio for emergency info. Many radios through the 50s-60s came fitted with these distinctive marks.

What’s even more special about this radio is when this particular model was issued. Upon further research, was made in 1961, just a year before the Cuban Missile Crisis. That, to me, makes this find a memorable one.

Next of course, the patch:

This is an authentic Civil Defense Warden patch, made to be worn as an armband. CD wardens were subdivided into specialized units back then, each with their own unique branded patch to mark their area of expertise.

This is the patch for the Air Raid Wardens. It was the first thing I saw when I opened a military badge drawer in the curiosity shop. I can’t even begin to describe how floored and excited I was when I found it at the top of the stack.

These two items now sit happily in my budding collection. While there’s still so much out there left to discover, these are incredible finds I’ll be proud of for a very long time.

[libraryofva]

Recent Acquisition - Ephemera Collection

The Road to Survival. Your Family Survival Plan, Office of Civil Defense, Center Theatre Bldg, Norfolk, Virginia Brochure, ca. 1950s

[m2o]

looking for blogs to follow

rb or like if you post:

Vintage/synthwave/neon aesthetics

Hospital / medcore / menhera

JJBA

Horror media

Stuffed animals ( No ddlg / kink )

Red or orange aesthetics

Nature

Anything about the cold war or civil defense / conelrad

Pirate radio stations or Sirens

Aliens / Space themed stuff

Comedy posts

If you aren't a terf

Original art

Aggretsuko

Obscure media

Oingo Boingo

Don't Starve or really any popular steam game

[sfppn]

From the Pop Culture Bunker 261

This has been a test of the Emergency Podcast System.

FTPCB 261

[madman-of-amargosa]

The music playing on CONELRAD at the time of Lola G’s abduction was amusingly appropriate.  ;-)

[your-instructions-from-moscow]

A BRIGHT FLASH may be your only warning; when in doubt, REACT!

Live: Three Plans for Survival in Nuclear Attack (Stanford Research Institute, March 1960)