How fast is a Cray-2 in comparison to computers now? ;-)
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert McGwier" rwmcgwier@gmail.com To: "Iain Young" g7iii@g7iii.net Cc: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 4:53 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Ham radio in Films & TV ?
I wonder if this will be the thing I am most remembered for 50 years from now. I hope not.
;-)
Bob N4HY
Iain Young wrote:
John Heaton wrote:
In one of the Star Trek films, there was some amateur radio in the
background when Uhura was tuning around. I seem to remember that
someone actually tried to decode the signal from the film.
Indeed. It was Startrek 4: The Voyage Home. It was during the scene after time travelling (cant remember if it was when they went back, or forward).Some folks thought it was the sound of a ZX Spectrum tape loading, which IIRC used 1500 baud. It was in-fact AX25.
There was a usenet thread about it at the time that made one of the "Usenet Historical Events" things, but I can't find it now.
What I didn't know was that, the film also has some HF packet in it as well, see this URL for details:
http://www.radio-active.net.au/web/articles/humor/startrek.html
All the Best
Iain
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