Oddity Archive: Episode 111 - Conelrad (Halloween Special 2016) 

Thank God he explained what a basement is! I always thought that underground chamber below the house I grew up in was an under used dungeon.

"Home Sweet Homicide" Now that was morbidly hilarious.

I had to tune my RU-vids to 1240 to see this

Wow, I can just imagine the broadcast transmitter techs way back when horrified: "they want us to turn it off... then on... then off. then on!? using THIS gear!?! -- that just won't happen no matter who wants it, it's impossible! but... oookAAAaaay here it goes" KA-BAM! (transmitter room fills with pcb capacitor cancer smoke vape) (station employees taken to prison after hospital burn treatment for failure to transmit). Genuine royal grade AAA foot stamping idiots must have thought of this.

i always found radio related spooks/creepy stuff to be the only things that really make me shit my pants.never scared with blood or ghosts or jumpscares,but radio messages and inteferences...damn

Oh man, the PXL's motor whine makes my teeth hurt. ^^

Who else turned down the volume in this due to the fear of loud ass alarms connected to the destruction and chaos that's after them?

those tones move a slide carosell.

Your life has sunk into nuclear hell, relax to this cinematic swooning music.

'Tropes vs Conelrad', on the next Oddity Archive.

i really really love this episode. for some reason, even though i’m extremely well-educated on things like this, something about it is just so interesting and the episode itself is so well-made that i keep coming back to watch it when i wanna see something interesting. such good work, love this topic a lot.

Hey, I'm ConelRAD!

I think the LP’s came with slides instead of film and I’m willing to bet those beeping sounds are for signaling the warden or whoever in charge to move ahead to the next slide. Just a guess though.

The Wold Wide World in his Hands brings be back to Primary School, I remember that song always creepily skipped at one part.

Loved the Halloween bit!

I prefer the Bray Wyatt version of "The Whole World in His Hands."

Check out the old film "A Day Called X" for more insight. I noticed some clips of it used here.

I saw this at 940. Me is rebel.

Did Ben just slip in a reference to the awful PPV Heroes of Wrestling with the 'I said to myself... self' joke, or was it just serendipity?

That beep was Conelrad's Code-A-Phone.

17:54 -- They'll want to run away if they want to survive...

0:00 he's got a whole wide world with his hands

Re: voices on the records. One sounds like Hugh Beaumont and another Marvin Miller. BTW, I worked at one time next to the Conrad family and referred to them Conelrad. :)

Some Scots do pronounce "hands" as "honds".

Cool effect!

Valuable dope you say?

And today we have to endeared those stupid amber alerts. At least dish network does not honor those alerts.

Hey , you seam somewhat smart and maybe cute . Why don't you come out of your box ?

"Get all the dope you can." Is this a Creech & Chong Album?

Funny how some of the videos I go back to most frequently for that classic soothing Oddity Archive vibe are the ones about tornado warnings and missile defense systems

17:02 "team members will be picking up valuable dope" "get all the dope you can" ; obviously realizing that some will need hard drugs to calm down after an attack, and, urging rescue teams to score quick as the supply will soon dry up. you know what? Good on them.

"Get all the dope you can" Will do!

Name for new punk band "Home Sweet Homicide"

Every frame of that intro looks like someone's last known photograph.

I briefly went to broadcasting school years ago, and I remember one instructor mentioning how much time it takes to fully power up a transmitter, and if it isn't fully powered up before bringing the radio station on the air (for those smaller stations that literally ceased broadcasting overnight, which still existed into the 90s) you could damage it bad enough it needs expensive repair and the station will be off the air that whole time. Therefore, if you were late getting in to get the station on the air in time, you were better off just coming on the air late than trying to come on the air in time to a non-fully warmed up transmitter. Not entirely sure if it relates to the powering down and powering up these transmitters had to do, but it might. "The more you know."

"Home Sweet Homicide"? That's morbidly daft. I like it, CONELRAD training people.

This episode made me think of the Conelrad radio mod for Fallout New Vegas, which in turn makes me think of Oddity Archive. Especially when it plays that damn Duck And Cover song.

The RU-vid channel "el1998p71" has all three of those slideshows with the slides

In his Hans.

Your open is very authentic. By the time I started working in broadcasting in 1969, Conelrad had dropped the "640 kc. or 1240 kc." requirement because changing frequencies often required non-technical announcers to dig around inside transmitters to change coils and crystals...totally impractical under emergency conditions. The "carrier off-on twice and tone" remained, however. This activated the simple Conelrad receivers of the day which were located at other stations, helping to (slowly) spread the word.

I was looking at an old Ford at a car dealership near me, it was a 56, and I looked inside of it and sure enough it had the CONELRAD symbols

Oh, GOD I hate Civil Defense sirens! I live in Tornado Alley and hear them a LOT during certain times of year...

On a bit of a OA binge right now as I've neglected this channel a little. Some great stuff you've been making recently.

Nowadays would be the CONELAPP.

Dont make fun of this. It was history. The "beeb" you heard was a "cue" to change the Picture in a filmstrip. Used to fix that stuff.

Intro - I know what hands are, but what are "hahnds"?

16:05 the missing scene from "The Ring" videotape

Seems like the tones in that record are the prompts to change the slides. I wonder if the projector was automated to listen for them.

In New York City, a lot of buildings had signs that says “Fallout Shelter” on housing projects, apartments, etc. which was used during the 1960’s where there was a sign of a nuclear attack, they have to rush into the shelter to prevent from blowing them up causing nuclear fallout. I saw the Fallout Shelter sign since I was a kid, right up until now, because it was scary.

The word obsolete at 10:05? Wheres Broken Matt Hardy?

I used Conelrad announcements in my Fallout 4 mod, it's pretty cool.

I'm kinda glad you added that catalog of AM radio stations because I was able to find the two in my hometown!

After the attack: “You are listening to OCNS. The Oceana Central News System, providing quality news, information and entertainment since the nation’s founding in 2071 about 7 months after the day of the great war.”

For funsies, I looked up the AM stations in my area. One of them operates at 640, and three are on 1240. Sadly, none of them are the Primary Entry Point station on the current EAS, which would have made for some delicious irony.

Gave you a shout out on twitter and Facebook.

Have you seen the movie Special Bulletin? It's a made for tv sci-fi psychological thriller. It's basically a movie that aired on A&E. It was basically about what would CNN be like if this was an actual nuclear terrorist attack going on in a city.... The problem with that movie it was in the mid 80s when cable was becoming popular and people randomly flipping through channels thought it WAS A REAL LIFE TERRORIST THREAT and the news was breaking into the channel the movie was on

The siren was in my nightmare last night

At 19:07....the correct pronunciation is of course AuthoriTAH...as Eric Cartman will inform you !!!

I've never seen some of these clips before. Great video as always, Ben!

Whoa! Erie Daily Times! And a Conelrad radio broadcast addressing residents of Erie country! I'm just geeking out over all the references to my home town. XD

I am a minute in and I already know I'm going to freak myself out. But I'm excited.

aahh the miss atomic bomb pageants...music to my ears..anybody whos interested watch the documentary by the las vegas sun on vegas's history and they mention good insightful points about this era.

Nice record player, Ben! But you know, I bet they could have fit all three programs onto one record, if they had set the speed to 16 rpm.

Hmm ok ive always wondered why 640 and 1240 is highlighted on some old radios...

I laughed too hard at the male goose bit. Friggin awesome episode!!!

Can I live in your basement?

Love the new show, Ben! I thought there was a lot that you left out in your original discussion of CONELRAD, and you covered pretty much all of it here. Great job, as per usual. :)

*kack*

Great episode, it was stuff like this that brought me here in the first place.

Escaping gas? Fuck, can't I ever fart while watching RU-vid anymore?

06:40 man, creepy. I'm from the area that's referring to.

Perhaps the beeps on the record were to change pages (Maybe it was a manual for a single person, but it would be redundant) or slides while listening to the information.

Love the video effects

Nein nein nein nein nein nenin nein *two hours later* Nein Nein eight. percent

"Home Sweet Homicide" ... dang!

Just HOW did the trapped woman get her shoe out if her feet were firmly pinned beneath a heavy beam? Surely she was doing weightlifting? Don't ask her to go fetch you a beer!

20:05 You enjoy that PXL-2000, don't you?

Skip start to 2:30 SERIOUSLY it will be much better

still loving your channel, Ben :) keep it going!

Only Frostbite Falls, Minnesota is safe, nobody can get Moose and Squirrel.

cool effect on the intro

"only a guy with a wooden head would take a chance wearing a loose 2x4 for a hat!" I'm looking at YOU, Pinocchio!

yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

Has anyone ever seen the simulated conelrad alert here? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-In5xpvaF2so.html simulates what would've happened if the Cuban missile crisis went completely downhill, some small inaccuracies but overall really well done.

Another great episode as always Benny boy

17:01 Spy vs Spy!!!! Yahhh!!!!!

The Oddity Archive (including the show's host and editor) is NOT homophobic NOR transphobic. Seriously!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice

So... it's been over 3 years I've been watching your videos, Face reveal when? And no the time your face got partially revealed doesn't count.

The first time you’ll truly hear Benny boy scream like a mad man.

The beeping noise in the early part of the show was probably a signal to a device to change the slide being shown.

LOL that ending here we go again

What was the Jack Webb narrated video?

that noise though

The EAS national test was still hit or miss when they ran it recently.

Sounds like Hugh Beaumont on the CD record

YES YES YES

Last 5 mins = Oddity ARG?

Is that actually Bob Barker at 17:00?

0:59 Oh, hi Stan!