Somewhat off Topic
Alan W. Fremmer
AWFremmer at AOL.COM
Sat Jun 16 16:20:33 EDT 2007
Hello to All,
So Nancy Drew is back on the big screen and as part of a retrospective,
Turner Classic Movies showed all four of the originals last evening. The first
in the series is called Nancy Drew - Detective. Turns out that Nancy's
boyfriend, Ted Nikkerson (sp?), is an amateur radio operator, W8YZR. He's shown for
about two minutes operating his station and being advised by his contact
that he may be over modulating. The rig appears to be homebrew. During the
course of the communication, there are no howls or squeals coming from the
speaker, just clean audio. There's lots of ham jargon in an attempt to sound
authentic but it winds up just sounding forced. Still, it was an interesting
couple of minutes watching a rather dated but still fun movie.
I wonder how many other movies have shown ham equipment and their operation.
73, Alan - KB2HEI
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