My favorite was the Sky King episode where the short wave set was a
National receiver with a microphone plugged into the phone jack.
David K0LUM
The opening sequence of Dr No, the very first Jame Bond movie, shows a
British radio operator using a Eddystone receiver and a KW Viscount
That's Spectre (SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism,
Revenge and Extortion) for you - no tolerance of incompetence.
Anyone know what The Lad Himself is screwing an 19DS/87B into in The Radio
Ham? There is a nice collection of amateur radio equipment in that episode.
IMO, with
It always amazes me, how these high flying film people can get it so wrong.
Whenever Ham radio is featured. It's either too corny for words or, as
noted previously totally inappropriate equipment, eg receivers being used
as transmitters and tuning the RX with the PA tune etc etc, not to mention
IIRC, an early scene in the movie Contact pretty much got the ham
experience close to reality. Not perfect, but close.
BTW for a true stealth ham rig, you'd think a KX1, KX3.. or
ATS-3 or 4.. or a true spy set would be what a real spy might use.
But maybe Ford was not playing a spy, so
The recent film Lincoln [President Lincoln during the US Civil War]
had a couple of scenes in the telegraph room. The ham group that
found and supplied the telegraph equipment posted to some list I'm on
the story about making it all period-authentic. Really interesting.
Wireless hadn't been
So, today I received the latest CQ Magazine in the mail and see this
interesting article about a movie with Harrison Ford and other notable actors.
Apparently, ham radio plays a part, thus the article. The author was asked if
he had any high-end radios that could play a part in a movie.
On 9/5/2013 7:25 PM, Phil Hystad wrote:
So, the K3 was upstaged by a Yaesu because of knobs and lights (and,
probably physical size).
Ah yes, Tokyo At Night, name given to the stereo sets on the market
shortly after I came home from SE Asia.
But, reading the rest of the article we
find
It's always the boat anchors. The movie about the ham kid who found his
dead dad on the air was Heathkit I think. I guess they look more like
real radios to non-hams.
That movie was Frequency starring Dennis Quaid. (Hope I spelled his name
correctly). I beleive an SB-301 was used as
From what I read, it was released August 16th (I think I got the date right)
and quickly bombed in the box office. It might have been yanked from screens
by now. Here let me check --- checking --- Nope, it is not playing at the
near-by 12 screen cineplex theater. By the way, the movie is
My favorite was the Sky King episode where the short wave set was a National
receiver with a microphone plugged into the phone jack.
David K0LUM
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