find this picture

**nerve** · 01-05-2005 04:34 AM

someone find me a picture of the Emergancy Broadcast System, please, ok.

**Seeker** · 01-05-2005 02:44 PM

Well, I can find Civil Defense and Emergency Alert System, but no EBS....

I remember the sound well, but it has not been used since it was replaced by EAS in 1994.

Sigh, another fond childhood memory retreats into the background

**Mickeys_Elbow** · 01-06-2005 08:46 AM

EBS was a fond memory???

I'd hate to imagine the bad!

**Seeker** · 01-07-2005 02:15 PM

Originally posted by Mickeys_Elbow
EBS was a fond memory???

I'd hate to imagine the bad!

I grew up in Northern Illinois. Can you say "tornado alley"?

Thing was activated often, sometimes not a test though...

**icedawg** · 01-07-2005 11:36 PM

i've heard the emergency broadcast system alert more recently than 1994.

**Joseph_Stalin** · 01-09-2005 01:54 AM

That thing scares me out of my mind...it's like the whole country has been taken over or something (ie, they've shut down tv as phase one of takeover).

But, yeah, I haven't heard it too recently either.

**nerve** · 01-09-2005 04:39 AM

I hope I'm saying the right thing...I mean the EBS TEST screen you know with all the colours

**Joseph_Stalin** · 01-09-2005 06:23 AM

Yeah, and the creepy man who says "This has been a test...now that you have shit your pants, our regular scheduling will continue."

**Kaniaz** · 01-09-2005 03:32 PM

Uh, we don't have it here.

**dream-scape** · 01-09-2005 06:43 PM

Are you talking about the color bar test pattern they used to throw up over an EBS broadcast?

Here are a couple. They aren't very big, but the test pattern is really simple. You could use them as guides to make a bigger one, if you were looking for a bigger image:

how about one with some crazy screen noise & flickering:

*edit* here is a bigger one:
http://www.high-techproductions.com/colorbars.htm

**nerve** · 01-10-2005 06:22 AM

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

**Truthbearer** · 01-10-2005 11:46 AM

see...I told you they wouldn't rest till they found it for you. They'd probably be too afraid to, if they know the paperdoll mythology

**dream-scape** · 01-10-2005 05:23 PM

Originally posted by Truthbearer
see...I told you they wouldn't rest till they found it for you. They'd probably be too afraid to, if they know the paperdoll mythology

HA

All it took was searching google for all of 5 minutes. Really amazing, these things called search engines.