Hello again,
I am looking for any references where ham radio is featured in popular culture, particularly movies, and TV. For example there was a bit of it in the movie "Contact" based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name.
Has anyone got an other references like this?
Thank you. Paul
On 21 Jan 2007 at 19:36, Paul Reilly wrote:
Hello again,
I am looking for any references where ham radio is featured in popular culture, particularly movies, and TV. For example there was a bit of it in the movie "Contact" based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name.
Has anyone got an other references like this?
Thank you. Paul
Here is the first one i have in mind:
The independence day Frequency
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
There was also an episode of "I Spy" where Robinson and Scott went to visit a Genera. When they say they have to contact their home base, he offers them his "Complete Ham Radio setup" to use. IIRC, it was all Collins gear. The episode was "The Name of the Game", with Lloyd Nolan as the General.
"Contact" the Movie, w/Jodie Foster as Ellie.
"This is W9GFO calling CQ"....Nice close up of one of the big Rigs, maybe an FT-1000 iirc in the movie theatre version, never managed to spot it on the video, or DVD version
W9GFO, this is G7III/A..../A being from an alien planet...I wish...Oh wait...
Iain (who just *adores* that movie, and the character Ellie, and wont incriminate himself by commenting on Jodie :>)
Luc Leblanc wrote:
On 21 Jan 2007 at 19:36, Paul Reilly wrote:
Hello again,
I am looking for any references where ham radio is featured in popular culture, particularly movies, and TV. For example there was a bit of it in the movie "Contact" based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name.
Has anyone got an other references like this?
Thank you. Paul
Here is the first one i have in mind:
The independence day Frequency
Luc Leblanc VE2DWE Skype VE2DWE www.qsl.net/ve2dwe WAC BASIC CW PHONE SATELLITE
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The John Travolta Movie Phenomenon - Kevin
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Hello again,
I am looking for any references where ham radio is featured in popular culture, particularly movies, and TV. For example there was a bit of it in the movie "Contact" based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name.
Has anyone got an other references like this?
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Kevin J. Smith wrote:
The John Travolta Movie Phenomenon - Kevin
-----Original Message----- From: amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces@amsat.org] On Behalf Of Paul Reilly Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 2:37 PM To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Ham radio in Films & TV ?
Hello again,
I am looking for any references where ham radio is featured in popular culture, particularly movies, and TV. For example there was a bit of it in the movie "Contact" based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name.
Has anyone got an other references like this?
Thank you. Paul
There is movie created in 1956 by Christian Jaque, with the dialogs arranged by Henri Georges Clouzot. The name of this famous picture is "Si tous les gars du monde..." The title could be translated by "If all the Guys in the World..." The whole sentance being : "Si tous les gars du monde voulaient se donner la main tout autour de la terre il formeraient une ronde". I have no idea if it has been translated into english and distributed elsewhere than in France. The story is about a chain of hamradio operators all over the world who succeed in relaying a distress message and then find a medicine for a sailorman who is ill aboard a ship over the ocean. If you do not find a source with Google, you probably could get the movie from a peer to peer video exchange site (...)
73 de Bernard, f6bvp
British comedian did a half hour sketch called The Radio Ham, recently re enacted by comedian Paul Merton. Ham Radio also features in a current series Jericho showing in the UK on Hallmark channel
Steve G6UIM
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Hello again,
I am looking for any references where ham radio is featured in popular culture, particularly movies, and TV. For example there was a bit of it in the movie "Contact" based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name.
Has anyone got an other references like this?
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The movie "Frequency"..entire movey had Ham Radio as means of speaking with deceased ham father. Funny about Heathkit SB300 also can transmit.
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On 21 Jan 2007, at 21:22, Steve Daniels wrote:
British comedian did a half hour sketch called The Radio Ham, recently re enacted by comedian Paul Merton.
That 'British Comedian' was 'Tony Hancock', and his original version of the Sketch from 'Hancock's Half-Hour' is still the best..
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.
John
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
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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How fast is a Cray-2 in comparison to computers now? ;-)
Roger WA1KAT
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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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That reference is to Tony Hancock, "Hancock's Half Hour" The episode was called "The Radio Ham" and it is one of those classics which you *really* ought to hear. This was originally recorded in 1951 as a radio show, but re-recorded in 1960-1 for TV. It shares a tape with another *classic* episore called "The blood donor". Wiki: Tony_Hancock
It is probably rentable at Blockbuster. It is definitely available at PBS stores.
On 1/21/07, Steve Daniels steve.daniels@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
British comedian did a half hour sketch called The Radio Ham,
Paul Reilly expunged (cqpaul@gmail.com):
Hello again,
I am looking for any references where ham radio is featured in popular culture, particularly movies, and TV. For example there was a bit of it in the movie "Contact" based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name.
Let's not forget that 80's classic TV show "ALF" :)
-Steve N1JFU
Paul,
I am looking for any references where ham radio is featured in popular culture, particularly movies, and TV. For example there was a bit of it in the movie "Contact" based on Carl Sagan's book of the same name.
Has anyone got an other references like this?
There's a reference in this Dilbert cartoon:
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=BMzfgnTted0
73, Howard G6LVB
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:32:33 -0000, Howard Long wrote:
There's a reference in this Dilbert cartoon:
Not Dilbert, but here's another comic reference:
http://www.suburbanjungle.com/d/20060601.html
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