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K3STX
07-05-2007, 02:37 AM
I just finished watching the old 1960's movie Fantasic Voyage today with my 8 year old (the movie in which a medical team, including Raquel Welch, are shrunk down and injected into a dying man to remove a blood clot). Once in the miniature submarine, the crew communicated with the doctors "outside" the patient using a "wireless set". Looked like a Drake transceiver and all communications were by CW using a BEAUTIFUL chrome Vibroplex Original!! Even the CW sent fit the dialog, not jibberish.
How cool is that!
paul
Watched "Father Goose" with the nice old WWII gear here. Cute old movie...
KC9ECI
07-05-2007, 03:11 AM
Quote[/b] (AG4YO @ July 04 2007,22:04)]Watched "Father Goose" with the nice old WWII gear here. #Cute old movie...
They don't make 'em like that any more.
Quote[/b] ]Lady, you are making a powerful enemy.
N8CPA
07-05-2007, 09:44 AM
My wife recently got me a box set of old Bogie titles. In "All Through The Night," there is a scene in which Nazi spies are getting their marching orders via CW through a boat anchor as big as a refrigerator. Too much dialog noise to catch the stream on the first view though. What surprised about the movie, though, was when I realized that two of Bogie's henchmen were Phil Silvers and Jackie Gleason.
I never knew the "Great One" shared credits with the "Good Bad Guy."
Asimov said when he wrote the movie script, he forgot about them not being able to breath the giant air molecules.
K7KBN
07-05-2007, 04:17 PM
I've often wondered: if the antennas shrink in proportion to the rest of the submarine, but the frequency remains the same, what sort of SWRS are they going to see? http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Oh, Pat, now you've RUINED it for me ! !
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kb2vxa
07-05-2007, 05:24 PM
Vibroplex? What Vibroplex? IT'S RAQUEL WELCH BABY!
N8CPA
07-05-2007, 06:31 PM
Quote[/b] (kb2vxa @ July 05 2007,13:24)]Vibroplex? What Vibroplex? IT'S RAQUEL WELCH BABY!
I liked it when she flashed on SNL--per Chevy Chase's request.
Anchors aweigh!
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wa9cwx
07-05-2007, 09:00 PM
RW's presents might explain why that Vibroplex and Drake are the only two radio pieces I have missed in 50 years of movie watching.....
kl7aj
07-05-2007, 09:02 PM
Quote[/b] (K3STX @ July 04 2007,19:37)]I just finished watching the old 1960's movie Fantasic Voyage today with my 8 year old (the movie in which a medical team, including Raquel Welch, are shrunk down and injected into a dying man to remove a blood clot). Once in the miniature submarine, the crew communicated with the doctors "outside" the patient using a "wireless set". Looked like a Drake transceiver and all communications were by CW using a BEAUTIFUL chrome Vibroplex Original!! Even the CW sent fit the dialog, not jibberish.
How cool is that!
paul
It MUST have been a beautiful bug, if you even noticed it alongside Racquel Welch. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
w8znx
07-06-2007, 09:03 AM
hell
its just a chrome bug
chrome orignal bugs are common as dirt
will trade my all chrome orignal
for a clean japan base 1920s lightning bug
with good contacts
chrome is over rated
you need some thing to offset the chrome
a little chrome is nice
all chrome is plug ugly
mac
wa9cwx
07-07-2007, 01:58 AM
Mac,
I agree about 'chrome alone', I just got a chrome / Gold custom re-done paddle off eBay, from a guy in your state.
He did a beautiful job!
Frank
K3STX
07-07-2007, 07:36 PM
Quote[/b] (w8znx @ July 06 2007,02:03)]you need some thing to offset the chrome
Oooh, like the nice Black base of the 100th Aniversary bug I just ordered!!!! I can hardly stand the wait.
paul