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Originally Posted by Mountainfire
It’s true, the original band was 55-102 mhz.
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Are you sure? Fifty-five to one hundred two megahertz works out to 47 megahertz, which seems to me to be an awfully large stretch of the FM band for an emergency warning system. The original Conelrad emergency warning system only occupied two frequencies (640 and 1240 kHz) on the AM radio dial. I am 66 years old and remember well the old Conelrad system (those Conelrad, later Emergency Broadcast System, tests over the radio and on television used to scare the wits out of me when I was a kid), but no, I do not, ever, remember any such emergency warning system taking over more than 40 megacycles of the FM radio spectrum in this country. Unless the system to which you are referring was a very crude one (I am thinking it must have been if it had been put into place before World War II), I cannot for the life of me imagine such a system hogging over 40 megacycles. The frequency range sounds all wrong as well, as 55 MHz was just megacycle above the starting frequency of what would eventually, after WWII, be television channel 2 (54-60 megahertz).
Again, are you sure your information is correct? Forty-seven megacycles, after all, is a huge span of RF spectrum. I would also wonder who would even be able to hear emergency warnings on those frequencies, as I am sure most if not all radios of the time did not tune 88-108 MHz, let alone 55-102 MHz. This sounds like one heck of a good science-fiction scenario for the old CBS-TV sci-fi series of the '60s The Twilight Zone!