Hurry-It Won't Last Long...

I love that thing!  I'm at work and

I'm going to listen to it while I'm

working!

Excellent!

Bruce, DOGRADIO

The "War of the Worlds" was featured today on a program I carry, and I listened very raptly, wondering if Orson Welles did all the voices. He did several voices for sure, others I wasn't so sure.

And the timing is something to listen for... the pause from program interuption to news bulletin. The silence following the reporter being cut off.

This is a program for all time and thanks to MRAM and the ALPB for posting it.

WCAU and many other CBS stations.

There are two things I like to broadcast on the appropriate dates:

One is the Mercury Theater "invasion" and...

The other is an original recording of the beeps from Sputnik. I listened to it live on short wave and this brings back memories.

20 MHz and 40 MHz?  Am I remembering it

correctly?

I also think one of the early satellites broadcast

on 108.00 MHz.  Is that right?

Bruce, DOGRADIO

I listened to it twice.

Man, some poor bozo who tuned in

at the wrong time could have really

been frightened.   

I heard about some people who

went to the supposed location -

and they found nothing at all.  All

was quiet and empty. 

There is a movie about this situation.

I believe it is called, "A Night To Remember."

By the way, somehow my typeface has

changed as I am typing this message. 

I have had trouble with this, although

in the big scope of things it is not

that important. 

"here comes the fire!  It's

about fifty yards to my lef-"

I still think it's creepy, at

least certain parts of it

anyway. 

By the way, in honor of this radio classic

and the town, "Grover's Mill",

the "X Files" Tv show had a

fake town in one of their

episodes that was called

"Miller's Grove."

Bruce, DOGRADIO

Bruce, I don't recall the exact frequencies(a web search could answer this)but I believe one was near 20 MHz. We were huddled together in the cold out in a quonset hut at my cousin's and it was his radio and he was running the controls.

Neil

Neil: that must have been so

exciting and maybe scary, too. 

I'll have to look it up. 

I seem to remember that there

was only one transmitter.  I

think the second harmonic was

strong, and people were tuning

that in also. 

Bruce, DOGRADIO

Hmmm.  Maybe there were 2 transmitters(?)

A lot more people would have had radios for

the lower 20.005 frequency.  I don't know.

How many transmitters?  The numbers don't

seem quite right for only one. 

Bruce, DOGRADIO

"Double Crossed To Hell"

Bruce,

I found the experience more exciting than frightening probably because I was young at the time and didn't grasp the military implications of this. This is surprising since both my father and uncle worked at Wright Patterson AFB and were in tune with the military. They did mention that the U.S. had the Strategic Air Command and that was a tremendous deterrent.

But government officials did look ahead to the day when nukes could be delivered via rockets and infused a pile of money into science and engineering education. National Science Foundation funding paid my way through grad school in engineering.

Having lived through the entire "cold war" I have memories of fear of attack probably instilled by the ridiculous "duck and cover" drills when I was 8 years old. Wright Patterson was most likely a prime target and we lived close enough that ducking would have been futile. That part was scary.

Neil

I remember those duck and cover drills.

We live not far from the Ravenna Arsenal.  The facility is serveral square miles of buildings and bunkers where they manufactured and stored munitions.  

I'm sure that place was targeted and if hit, well lets just say we'd know about it for a few seconds.

in 1962 they led us all down to the

basement of the elementary school.

I remember a lot of big black metal

"things" with red glowing pilot lights. 

They said it was in case there was

a storm. 

Bruce, DOGRADIO