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KI4LZK
12-08-2005, 05:32 PM
If anyone is interested Freuqncy is currently on USA Network, I am recoring it. It is my favorite movie of all time.
WB2WIK
12-08-2005, 05:40 PM
Really? Even though they show a Heathkit receiver being used to transmit, and a guy operating a push-to-talk microphone, transmitting without ever pushing the button (not using VOX either), and a Force-12 beam which has only been in production for ten years at a station that's supposed to be from 40 years ago?
Ah, what the heck...it's fun to find stuff like that...enjoy!
WB2WIK/6
KI4LZK
12-08-2005, 05:43 PM
Actually I have never watched it that close, that is why I am watching it again today http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif). I have always wondered what kind of radio he was using.
KI4LZK
12-08-2005, 05:51 PM
Maybe it isn't my favorite anymore....
"Its junk kid, Nobody uses those anymore."
KB3KBR
12-08-2005, 05:55 PM
it's kinda cool with the time phase and stuff like burnt wood
N8CPA
12-08-2005, 06:22 PM
The question is, which came first; the movie, or the Niagara Radio Club's call sign?
w5klb
12-08-2005, 06:54 PM
Quote[/b] (ki4lzk @ Dec. 08 2005,10:32)]If anyone is interested Freuqncy is currently on USA Network, I am recoring it. It is my favorite movie of all time.
Yeah, compleat with LOTS of commercials every 5 minutes or so. And don't worry, the editors at the USA nitwits... er... network with do their best to cut out important parts of the movie just so YOU can learn about the "New and Improved Moronic Sleeze". And it doesn'tt cost much. Just three easy(?) screwings of $69.99. If you want to be driven to the frayed ends of sanity, and develop a "serial killer" attidude, try watching a movie... ANY movie on USA. The commericals will drive you nuts.
Thanks for the "heads up" but I'm going to pass.
N8CPA
12-08-2005, 07:03 PM
Well, USA is one of those networks where 90% of movies can be summarized, "It's a man's fault! They're all evil and they victimize women!"
KI4LZK
12-08-2005, 07:37 PM
Hehehehe Yeah I hate that about USA as well. It just happens to be on, and nothing better is on so I will set here and watch the dang Tuesday morning commercials every 5 minutes.
As for the Niagara Radio Club, I am not sure I looked it up as soon as I heard it. Searching around it appears as if the Niagara Radio Club had it first :
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp....=789082 (http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseAdminSum.jsp?licKey=789082)
It doesn't say that but It shows them renewing the license in 2004, so I would guess they have had it since atleast 1994. <?php ?>
Quote[/b] (ki4lzk @ Dec. 08 2005,11:37)]Hehehehe Yeah I hate that about USA as well. It just happens to be on, and nothing better is on so I will set here and watch the dang Tuesday morning commercials every 5 minutes.
As for the Niagara Radio Club, I am not sure I looked it up as soon as I heard it. Searching around it appears as if the Niagara Radio Club had it first :
http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp....=789082 (http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseAdminSum.jsp?licKey=789082)
It doesn't say that but It shows them renewing the license in 2004, so I would guess they have had it since atleast 1994. <?php ?>
1992 W2QYV # #NIAGRA RADIO CLUB, #2965 MC KOON AVE, NIAGARA FALLS, NY 14305 # # #
1995 W2QYV # #NIAGARA RADIO CLUB INC, #2965 MC KOON AVE, NIAGARA FALLS, NY 14305 03/06/95 03/06/05 W2OVP
1996 W2QYV # #NIAGARA RADIO CLUB INC, #2965 MC KOON AVE, NIAGARA FALLS, NY 14305 03/06/95 03/06/05 W2OVP
1997 W2QYV # #NIAGARA RADIO CLUB INC, TR: W2OVP #2965 MC KOON AVE, NIAGARA FALLS, NY 14305 01/00/ 03/06/05 #
1998 W2QYV # #NIAGARA RADIO CLUB INC, TR: W2OVP #2965 MC KOON AVE, NIAGARA FALLS, NY 14305 01/00/ 03/06/05 #
1999 W2QYV # #NIAGARA RADIO CLUB INC, #2965 MC KOON AVE, NIAGARA FALLS, NY 14305 03/06/95 03/06/05 W2OVP
FCC W2QYV #0 Active # 1061 ELLIOTT DR, LEWISTON, NY 14092 12/08/04 03/06/15
WB2WIK
12-08-2005, 08:05 PM
A weekly TV show depicting ham radio and equipment quite often was "Alf." Also, it was pretty funny.
Alf, the intergallactic DX entity, was a ham and had ham gear set up in his host's basement (or garage? I forget, it's been a while...) and the gear included an old Clegg six meter rig.
Of course, the much older TV show "Sky King" used to show Sky and Penny and others using a Hallicrafters receiver as a two-way radio. That was kinda cute.
For those who don't know, "E.T." the extra-terrestrial cutie with the illuminated finger tip and goofy grin, built his "communicator" to "phone home" out of a phonograph turntable and a bunch of junk laying around, and most of that was designed and dreamed up by hams who worked on the film.
WB2WIK/6
KI4LZK
12-08-2005, 08:55 PM
Very Interesting Steve. Do you know if there is a book about hams in Television? Could be quite interesting.
- Josh KI4LZK
Quote[/b] (WB2WIK @ Dec. 08 2005,10:40)]... and a guy operating a push-to-talk microphone, transmitting without ever pushing the button (not using VOX either)
Actually, if you really watch the show, they are surprised to learn that pushing transmit does not transmit until the other end stops transmitting, and then pushing transmit is optional.
Until I watched the show, I did not realize that we could switch our world-line by transmitting into an aurora. But what about our self that we leave in the old Worldline? I think it is cruel to abandon oneself like that.