Frequency!!/The Anderson Tapes

[Jack Cantrell]

See the Anderson Tapes with Sean Connery for an actual
Heathkit transceiver being used conventionally.

--- Eddy Swynar <gswynar at DURHAM.NET> wrote:
> While I enjoyed watching the film, strictly for its
> entertainment value, I
> couldn't understand for the life of me why the
> technical co-ordinator
> responsible for the radio didn't simply acquire an
> old SB-100/101 from that
> same era---in other words, a TRUE transceiver,
> rather than that cobbled-up
> thing that appeared in the picture...
>
> It would have been closer (obviously) to reality, &
> would probably would
> have saved the studio some money, too (i.e. no need
> to retrofit the thing,
> the way they did the receiver). I suspect that same
> technical co-ordinator
> may well have been a "newbie" to Ham Radio, & knew
> little of BA rigs.
>
> Hollywood...go figure!
>
> ~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray Friess" <rayfri at networld.com>
> To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 4:54 PM
> Subject: Re: Frequency!!
>
>
> > must have been a special model by heathkit.  I
> just checked my 301
> > and it doesnt transmit either.. probably because
> my 301 doesnt have
> > any transmit section in it.  Maybe it was gutted
> before I got it.
> > HI HI.
> > ray  wa7itz
> >
> >
> >
> > Ed Gardner wrote:
> > >
> > > SB-301. There's a scene where they pan across
> the face in closeup. I
> > > wasn't aware that 301's could transmit. Must
> have been a special model
> > > hihi. Hollywood!!
> > >
> > > Jack Crenshaw wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Just watched the movie, "Frequency," last
> night.  The hero of the
> movie
> > > > was a Heathkit ham transceiver.  Which model
> was it?
> > > >
> > > > Jack
> >
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