Upcoming Roswell Delirium Movie featuring Ham Radio Equipment

Keyboard Messiahs, spreading the gospel of the book of Karen.

Where did you find that pic from the behind the scenes shot?

 

aliens would scan thru the ham bands and say there no intelligence on that rock next

 

Scroll down on this link: https://www.lightforcepictures.com/roswell-delirium

The images are in *.webp format. I used an online webp > jpg converter ( https://ezgif.com/webp-to-jpg ) on the image to share it here.

 

Thanks. That must be a new addition to the page. Havent "scene" those ones before

 

There's some rich irony there in the lack of capitalization and punctuaton, the misspelling, and a missing verb/contraction.

 

Wow that is pretty cool .. Thanks for the share..!!!!

 

Ever see an Outer Limits episode where a broadcast engineer gets a download of a a space being who looks like glowing energy. That alien move around causing all kinds of disruptions before the engineer is able to get him sent back to wherever he came from. I do not recall the name of that episode. I will have to look it up. Episode 1 The Galaxy Being, Sept 16, 1963 with Cliff Robertson. That was such a moving episode. Only wish that broadcast engineer had been show as a ham op!

 

I will NOT be watching this. When we pose our own problems as only surmountable by action by EBE's, well, that means we are incapable of taking responsibility for ourselves. I choose not to accept that premise.
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From the website....

PREMISE
During the 1980s the US is hit by a wave of nuclear attacks and after the fallout, those who remain pretend like everything is normal even though they are all experiencing radiation poisoning.



A young girl named Mayday tried to make contact on a series of ham radios with her father who is in space on a shuttle mission. Instead of making contact Mayday receives a distress call from space that leads her on a journey to Spacerock, the land where Area 51 once was. She is exposed to severe levels of radiation and within days all of her organs begin to fail.



Knowing that medical treatment won't help, her mother, Wendy, brings her back to Spacerock to give her to the aliens in hopes that they may be able to save her.

 

Movies are made for the masses who don't know or care about the vintage of the radio props. Cinema production team members know enough to return their "defective" HT to the rental house if it stops working on the set.

How many "elite military operators", police "SWAT officers" and "dinosaur hunters" have been portrayed while carrying Baofeng UV-5R variants? The story defines what the radio does but rarely what it should be. The screen writers likely watch Youtube to "learn" about amateur radio and there is a lot of useless "information" propagated on that platform. The QST "high school" cover photo earns its place in that category.

Be happy when a movie/TV production goes the extra mile to use a prop radio like an HT-220, MX-350 or Saber.
Be ecstatic when a Kenwood 520 is portrayed as an HF radio.

Now get real. After an apocalyptic event, where will you find more live humans? On the ham bands? Or on the default freqs of the UV5Rs sold to the masses for "emergency" communications?

 

What’s the frequency, Kenneth?

 

If I were to "get real" then I'd find the most powerful HF radio I could get my hands on, rip out the VFO limits, and transmit on a popular AM broadcast station. I'd tell people to find CB radios and tune to channel 19 for further instruction.

If anyone thinks a CB radio is few and far between then consider how rare a UV5R would be, and then consider the range of that radio compared to 5 watts AM on 11 meters after an apocalypse just knocked down the noise levels a bit.

If we are "really real" then I'd be on the radio encouraging everyone to find some two-way radio and tune to whatever emergency distress channel that it has. Most everyone can likely dig up some kind of two-way radio. Maybe it is the FRS radio they got their kids. Maybe it's the CB radio Grandpa left to collect dust in the garage. If they have a UV5R then there's a good chance it can tune to Marine channel 16 or FRS 1. I'd be on the air listing off radio distress frequencies for people to try as well as how to find radios and make them work.

That's assuming I survived whatever event this was where I still had my wits about me and some kind of radio gear to kick off my effort to get people in one place and organized. Presumably I could get some help to find high ground for best propagation and to set up some kind of beacon for people to seek out.

I just think where people might go to look for information should something big happen and I'd want to be in one of those places. The top four on where people might look is TV, radio, telephone, and internet. AM radio might rank on the low end of where people look so maybe at the same time try NOAA weather radio frequencies, FM broadcast, GMRS, or whatever I can get some gear to transmit where people might be listening.

I agree that in the "real world" there's not likely to be many on Amateur radios. What is equally unlikely is people with UV5R radios that know how to reach anyone outside of their circle of clueless friends. We don't necessarily need these people to talk on the radios, but only listen. If they can listen then it is possible to guide them to places where there is food, water, and shelter. If they are unable to move then instructions can be given to improve their chances of being found in good health. Things like what dangers are around, what kind of signals to use to get attention, and so on.

Perhaps that's too much thought for such a minor comment but this is the kind of things running through the minds of those that mentally prepare themselves for a failure of infrastructure.

 

Here's a few...
156.8 MHz
4125 kHz
6215 kHz
8291 kHz
12290 kHz
16420 kHz
121.5 MHz
243 MHz
406 MHz to 406.1 MHz
27.065 MHz AM
27.185 MHz AM
151.940 MHz
462.5625 MHz
446.00625 MHz

The above is a select few from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_distress_frequency

 

Always a non-optimum course of action to rely upon Wikipedia for safety-of-life information.

The 4-16MHz frequencies (USB only) listed are follow-on channels for SSB distress communications & safety after an initial alert has been effected
by means of digital alarm notification on appropriate paired channel on the applicable band.
The USCG has abandoned guarding these listed HF channels continuously, only in ongoing emergency situations when notified
by other means. Same with ocean-going vessels. They are assignments in the GMDSS system and unfortunately,
GMDSS operators are almost universally not really radio people. The system relies on semi-automated notification &
communications protocols via DSC.

156.8MHz narrowband-FM is marine-VHF Channel 16 and is always appropriate and useful; effective if within range of other vessels or port facilities.
121.5 MHz DSB AM and 243.0 DSB AM are semi-continuously guarded by civilian and military aircraft, respectively. They'll be puzzled
initially by what the heck you're talking about, but you might get a message thru if you have AM capability. Just don't use "Barcelona,
Santiago, Zanzibar, Yokohama" as phonetics or you'll be rejected as an imposter & the clown you've immediately proven yourself to be.
406MHz is COSPAS/SARSAT digital. Unless you can beep like a robot, it's pointless.--the satellite is listening for locator beacons.
Also, your position likely won't be triangulated until several satellite orbit-passes, probably taking an hour.


The stuff way up there around 450MHz GMRS and CB at 27MHz--you're on your own. Too lazy to look it up here.

Good luck.
The key is to never put yourself in a situation that requires emergency communications knowledge.
And stay off the Internet

73

 

The topic of discussion is a movie where there's been a launch of nuclear weapons on the USA, a great many things will be "non-optimum". In a non-optimum situation we make the best with what we have. I took a list of radio frequencies where I thought it would be most likely to find people. It is not an optimal list, definitive list, or exhaustive list. It is a place to start.

If things get bad enough then it is unlikely that people will have access to the internet to look up distress channels on Wikipedia. In that case it may be wise to memorize a handful of designated distress frequencies just in case one can happen across a two-way radio of some sort. That's not optimal but still a better survival tactic than transmitting blindly with a radio. I can agree about not "sounding like a clown" on the radio but if there's an emergency then I expect first responders to be professional about nonstandard phonetics.

 

I apologize for my misunderstanding of the discussion--I just saw some post in passing and then your link to an emergency-freq listing.

I guess what is somewhat concerning (nothing to do with you or me) is that there is erroneous and potentially life-threatening guidance on the Web,
which as a Wikipedia entry probably coming up top of a web-search; leading boaters, wilderness enthusiasts, and those in true distress today
from natural disasters to assume there is help to be summoned with their un-locked transceivers for the asking.
The most glaring error is that the US Coast Guard abandoned listening-in on those HF SSB freqs. some years ago. The final public legal notice
releasing the Government from duty & responsibility was published in the Federal Register in 2021.

The Internet has opened-up the world to great possibilities--and created unintended consequences which ironically might destroy our society.
The jury's still out.

Stay well & safe. 73