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With the success of the
Amateur Radio Display, as will be seen in the upcoming article
in QST, I have put together the following information. It took
me many hours to gather the information and to confirm the facts.
You will find a list of AMATEUR RADIO in the HOLLYWOOD
SPOTLIGHT of all the known times Amateur Radio was talked
or had a part in Hollywood clips.
I will add to the list as I find more
or you send me the ones that you know of.
You will also find Mode
Sheets. Each sheet is set up so you can print it up and display
it right off the Color Printer. I mounted all the print out on
very colorful paper, it tends to attract the publics eyes.
Have a few radios set ups with the next
FIND
THE PARTS sheets, You open up a radio and pinpoint the parts
listed on the sheet, and they love to see what makes it work.
You will find most of the work is done for you. You will need
to fill in some of the blanks in the worksheets. You will need
information like where your local test are given, local classes,
a list of local clubs, and up coming events. It also helps to
have some Newsletters and some handouts like some of the ARRL
brochures. Make sure you have something for the kids. All handouts
are in pdf format.
Together we can get more people involved
in Amateur Radio.
Paul Rios, KC6QLS
kc6qls@cox.net
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Most of
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Some Photos
of an Amateur Radio Display at the Serra Mesa San Diego Branch
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Some Photos
of an Amateur Radio Display at the Mission Valley San Diego Branch
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Bill Sannwald, Library Assistant
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Amateur Radio
in the
Hollywood Spotlight
Amateur Radio has been on the Silver Screen
and on the TV. Sometimes Amateur Radio Operators are portrayed as weird
individuals and other times as the ones that save the world from the
end of times.
The truth is Amateur Radio Operators are
people like you and me. If for some reason we are the only ones that
can communicate, it’s because we earned our Amateur Radio Licenses
and we are willing to go that extra mile to help.
Below is a list of some of the Movies
and TV Shows that Amateur Radio was in. It may be a small scene or it
may be the whole shows theme. It may be just the RADIO, the word HAM
RADIO, or a term CW, QSL, 73, etc. I have noticed that the Yaesu FT
101 must fit Hollywood's criteria for “The HAM RADIO”; it
seems to be in a lot of movies. Some Amateur Radio Operators have been
on the technology side of Hollywood making sure the Amateur Radio scenes
are done right.
Hollywood Movies:
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Earlier reports stated
the following movies had some scene, gear or mention of Amateur
Radio. However, upon further review of the movies, I did not
find any scene, gear or mention of Amateur Radio in the following;
“The Man Who Knew Too Much” – 1956; "Rear
Window" – 1954;
“The longest Yard” – 1974; "The Birds"
- 1963
Updated 11-7-2008
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"Andy
Hardy " - 1938
Oldest Scene Known!
Andy Hardy’s Father
(Lewis Stone) needs to send an urgent message to his wife in Canada
where there is no phone service. Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) knows
of a Ham Radio Operator named Jimmy (Gene Reynolds). Jimmy’s
call is W8XCR and he makes contact with DE3AVS. The message was
sent and all was well. The rig was a HOME BREW!! No HRO back then.
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"Radio
Hams" - 1939
Ham desperately attempts
to contact police near the location of DeVinna's hut, in hopes
that somehow a doctor could be found to get to DeVinna before
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"The
Lost Contest Weekend" - 1945
Ray Milland in a dramatic
battle on 20 Meters for one elusive QSL. Still
Confirming Scene!
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Adam finds the device and
sells it to a junkyard where Mel (a Ham Radio Operator) buys it
for parts. The announcer
on the show was Art Gilmore -- N6GKV. Still
Confirming Scene! |
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"I Was a Teenage Novice"
- 1957
A troubled teenager (Michael
Landon) finds fun and excitement after getting a Ham license.
Still Confirming Scene!
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"Blondie
and Dagwood" - Unknown year
The FCC knocks at the home of Blondie
and Dagwood after Dagwood plays music over the air on a Ham Radio
Set. Still Confirming Scene!
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"The
Glass Bottom Boat" – 1966
Doris Day had a radio
in her closet and she talked with her dad (Aurthor Godfree)
on Catalina. She used it to save on long distance calls. The
agency she worked for thought she was a spy and the radio helped
confirm her to be more suspicious. Unknown rig used in the scene.
Still Confirming
Scene!
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"The
Shining" - 1980
In one scene they show
the Ham Radio and they could use it to get help if they needed
it. Later in the movie the tubes were taken out so they could
not use it. Photo 1
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“High
Frequency”– 1989
Thousands of miles away
in Main, Danny an 11 year old boy’s Ham Radio hobby turns
into a real live adventure when he helps Peter in the Swiss
Alps solve a spy plot. Danny uses the call WM1ATE and Peter
used HB9RFX. Other calls used G3CPC and UZ4KV. In the film,
Danny used the Drake TR-4 Transceiver and Peter looks like he
used IC-R70 Receiver and a Yaesu FRG-7 Receiver. Hollywood had
Peter talking on one of the Receivers. They were close with
some of the details, but the calls are Hollywoodized, and two
Receivers do not make a Transceiver. The DX was too clear! The
only real call was G3CPC. Photo 1
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“Independence
Day” - 1996
In one scene in order to
help get the word out about how to kill the aliens they use CW!
In the Director’s Cut Version, a News Caster reported that
Ham Radio Operators are helping spread the word on how to get
rid of them. The Director’s Cut has a much longer Amateur
Radio Scene!
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“Phenomenon”
- 1996
Nate Pope (Forest Whitaker)
plays a Amateur Radio Operator and finds some encrypted transmissions
that George Malley (John Travolta) decodes and then gets into
trouble by the government. Forest Whitaker, as a Ham, used the
call sign WB6QLF. The Rig looks like a FT-1000 by Yaesu Photo
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"A
Perfect World" - (1993)
It looks like a Hallicrafter SR-400
or something like it was used in the filming of this movie.
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“Mother
Night” - (1996)
They have a scene which is suppose
to take place just before World War II with some people listening
to a broadcast Howard Campbell (Nick Nolte) is making. They
show them listening on a Hallicrafter S-38C.
Note: The S-38C
wasn't manufactured until around the mid 1950s. Hollywood goofed
again!
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"Contact"
- 1997
Female Ham Operator (Jodie
Foster) controls the Arecibo radiotelescope where she picks up
an extraterrestrial signal.
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"Frequency"
- 2000
John Sullivan played by
(Jim Caviezel) finds he is talking to his father Frank Sullivan
played by (Dennis Quaid) decades in the past after some kind
of time warp with the Northern Lights. The call sign W2QYV was
used in the film and the radio was a Heathkit SB-301.
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“Kangaroo
Jack” - 2003
In one scene of the movie
they use a Yaesu FT-101B to communicate to a downed airplane.
Note the plane is on AM around 120 Mhz and the FT-101B is not
an VHF AM Radio. Well, they tried.
Photo 2
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At the very end of the movie when John
Connor (Nick Stahl) and Kate Brewster (Claire Danes) find an old
VIP Fall Out Shelter “Crystal Peak”, the radio comes
alive and Montana Civil Defense starts to call out “CQ CQ”
the Computer Program “SKYNET” became self aware and
took over all the computers across the planet and the movement
started.
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After everyone is in jail and waiting
for Anderson’s (Jason Biggs) folks to show up to bail them
out, the Police Radio (Icom IC-720) has a radio call. Note the
radio is not on and is only in the screen for all but 2.5 seconds.
As far as an Amateur Radio movie, it is just the radio. If you
like American Pie type of a movie, than you might like it. This
move is also known as “The Pleasure of Your Company”
(UK and USA release) “The Next Girl I See” (USA release)
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“The
Bank Job” - 2008
About midway during the
tunneling to the bank, a local Ham Radio Operator picks up some
chatter on his Yaesu FT-101. He hears the look-out talking to
the robbers. The Robbers are using HT’s; they look like
they are from the 70’s. The Ham Radio Operator calls the
Police and said,“I’m a Ham Radio Operator and I
think I’m over hearing a robbery in progress.” The
film is based on a true story. Photo 1
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"Onda
Corta" - 2008
Ramón, the only taxicab
driver in a small town in South America, befriends a pretty unusual
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“Get
Smart” - 2008
In the big chance scene
where Agent 99 is kidnapped by the Rouge Agent 23, Maxwell Smart,
aka Agent 89, and the Chief commandeer a car with a two-way radio
in it. The radio looks to be a Yaesu FT-1802M. Look real close,
the S-Meter is not displayed when the other Agent talks on it.
Also, the radio displays 143.910 Mhz. The Amateur Radio scene
was all but 15 seconds. but it is there. Over all a good movie
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Twilight
Zone - 1964 “Black
Leather Jackets”
Season 5 Episode 18
A family is sitting watching TV and
the TV goes to snow and the lights start to go on and off. Three
leather jacket wearing, motorcycle riding men invade a peaceful
neighborhood and use a Ham Radio Set.
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Gilligan’s
Island – 1965 "Quick
Before It Sinks"
Season 2 Episode 6
Skipper has Gilligan hide
under a table while the Professor contacts him using a phony
radio. He refers to Gilligan as a "French Radio Operator"
and the Skipper infers that the guy is in a Ham Shack.
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Isis
- 1975 CBS “No
Drums, No Trumpets”
Season 1 Episode 11
Reported Drake TR-22,
2 Meter FM “Luggie Talkies” were used in a scene.
More to come as soon a clip is viewed.
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M*
A* S* H* - 1972 “Adam’s
Ribs”
Season 3, Episode 11
Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is fed up with the
same mess hall food. He wakes up Radar (Gary Burghoff) to make
a call back to the States to place an order of Ribs from Adam’s
Ribs, next to a Deerborn Station in Chicago. Radar gets the call
to go through and Hawkeye places the order but forgets to order
the coleslaw. Later Hawkeye has Trapper (Wayne Rogers) make a
call to an old girlfriend to pick up the ribs and take them to
an Army Base so they can be shipped out on ice. At the end, they
are all sitting down to eat them and then a chopper comes in with
wounded and they have to leave.
***Note: All the phone calls back to the US from Korean Conflict,
they used “MARS” Military Affiliate Radio System.
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The
French Atlantic Affair - This was a 1979 TV
Mini Series
The
French Atlantic Affair. Ham radio was not just a scene -- it
was central to the plot. The writer of the novel, book and conultant
on all scripts for the TV series was my late friend Ernie "Ernest"
Lehman, K6DXK. (King 6 (the) D X Kid as he often called himself.)
If you have a screen shot please send
us one.
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Facts
of Life – Season
1, Episode 9
In an episode from 1980,
Molly Ringwald, daughter of Bob Ringwald K6YBV, played one of
the girls at a school, providing emergency communications during
a storm. She even used her dad's callsign! Bob Ringwald, K6YBV
has also been reported to be one of the Technical Consultants
on the show. It was also reported he literally rewrote the script
to put in the proper "Hamspeak" so Molly would sound
authentic.
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Hancock's
Half Hour – 1991 “The Radio Ham”
Season 7, Episode 3
BBC Show Still
Confirming Scene!
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Paul
Merton in Galton and Simpson's... – 1996 ”The
Radio Ham”
Season 1, Episode 3
BBC
Show Still Confirming Scene! |
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"Frasier"
– 1997 “Ham
Radio”
Season 4, Episode 18
This episode had nothing
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"The
Secret Wireless War" - 2002 (TV)
The first two episodes
tell the story of the Amateur Radio Hams, who listened to German
Morse code broadcasts, during World War II.
Still
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“Drake & Josh” –
2006 “Alien
Invasion”
Season 3, Episode 16
Drake (Drake Bell) and
Josh (Josh Peck) decide to play a prank on their little sister
Megan. They know that the night before she watched a special
on TV about aliens. Josh decides that they are going to make
Megan believe that there really are aliens. When they walk in
the house, Megan (Miranda Cosgrove) has radio station set
up. She has about 3 big radios, an antenna, and a microphone.
In the next scene, Drake asks what Josh is doing with small
radio, an antenna and a microphone. Josh says that they are
going to use Ham Radio to make Megan think that she is actually
hearing aliens on the other end. Drake asks Josh where he got
the equipment and he replies with, "Our school has an Amateur
Radio Club. They let me borrow some stuff." Later on Megan
listens and when Drake and Josh make "alien" noises
Megan runs around screaming “aliens!” Eventually,
the boys tell Megan it was a prank, but Megan knew all along
and gets them back by having an alien scare them.
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Making
Waves Trailer - 2004 Ham Radio Movie - British!
Robert, G4KM meets Rachel,
G0KUU over the Amateur Radio Air Waves with the help of a marooned
Cosmonaut stuck on the Mir Space Station. The Amateur Radio
theme is through most of the movie. Staring Radios, Kenwood
TS-940S; Kenwood TS-120V; Yaesu FT-901DM; and a Home Brew HF.
Other calls used in the movie G8EIU & G??? Over all one
of the best displays of Amateur Radio gear on the screen. Not
a bad movie; if you like Amateur Radio and like a funny romance
movie, than you got to see this one.
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"Tune
In" - 2006
Tune In follows the fascinating
unseen world of Amateur Radio enthusiasts, better known as HAMS.
15 min UK Film.
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Just Pure Funny! A
MUST SEE!!
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Beware of the Knack!
A MUST SEE!!
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Simpsons
Season 1, Episode 11- 4/15/90 The
Crepes of Wrath
Bart gets sent to Albania as an exchange student after getting
caught dropping cherry bombs in the toilets. The Albanian kid
sent to live with Homer is a spy, and keeps sending details
of Homer's nuclear reactors over a CW spy radio.
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Simpsons Season 4,
Episode 13 - 1/21/93 Selma's
Choice
Marge's sister is Selma is a Ham. She decides she wants to have
a baby, and states he reason is because "I've got a lot
of love to give, and my only outlet is my ham radio" (cuts
to shot of radio) Radio: [speaking foreign language] I have
a Ham Radio.
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Simpsons Season 8,
Episode 12 - 2/2/97 Mountain
of Madness
Mr. Burns decides to use the telegraph to send an S.O.S. The
telegraph signal only manages to reach a telegraph machine stored
inside a museum exhibit of Samuel Morse
  
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Simpsons Season 9,
Episode 23 - 3/3/98 King
Of The Hill
Homer gets in shape and climbs a mountain after eating power
bars. He uses a HT for communications while climbing the mountain.
Later a goat steals his HT.
  
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Simpsons Season 17,
Episode 10 - 1/8/06 Homer's
Paternity Coot
Where Seymour is a ham, using WA3QIZ as a callsign (WA3QIZ was
the callsign of executive producer David Mirkin. That call expired
in 1998.)
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And Then There is Jericho
“Jericho” – 2008 from the first one to the present!
At the opening of each show's credits you will hear Morse Code “Dit’s
and Dah’s.” If you know, CW you can decode what they are
saying. This is what we know so far…
Link
to Season 1 and 2
With videos
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Note: On the first
show, it shows Amateur Radio Operators getting paid 50¢ for
communicating to other cities and towns. Amateur Radio Operators
DO NOT GET PAID. We volunteer to
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Decoding the Disneyland
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"TO ALL WHO
COME TO DISNEYLAND, WELCOME. HERE AGE RELIVES FOND MEMORIES OF
THE PAST, AND HERE YOUTH MAY SAVOR THE CHALLENGE AND PROMISE OF
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If you have a clip you like to add or information
about a clip please contact me at kc6qls@cox.net
73 Paul, KC6QLS
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OK you made it to the end of the
list!
… … Ever wonder why
the Coax only lasts so long?
From the Department
of H.A.M. a Government Top Secret Video. This will explain why we have
to replace the wire to our antennas and long wire antennas. Link
There are also rumors of a Top
Secret Video on why California is trying to get rid
of Towers!
Perhaps a Question for the next
Extra Class Question Pool.
On The Web at www.ARPRSD.org
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