Somewhat off Topic

[Tom]

This topic has come up periodically in different forms. Wikipedia has a nice 
writeup referencing film, TV, and comic books that contain Amateur Radio as 
part of the story. Here is the link: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_in_popular_culture

Tom K3TVC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan W. Fremmer" <AWFremmer at AOL.COM>
To: <BOATANCHORS at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 4:20 PM
Subject: [BOATANCHORS-TEMPE] Somewhat off Topic


> 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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