Last week, I watched the Netflix movie, Spectral, and couldn’t help but notice a couple of radios on set.
I spotted the first rig at the beginning of the film while the camera was panning a military communications center. It’s a dark screen shot, but I believe this may be a Kenwood TS-940S:
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The second radio appeared to be a 1950s-60s era Grundig tabletop. Perhaps someone can identify the model?
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I’ve noticed that many of the radios we’ve spotted in film and TV lately have been in Netflix original productions. I assume the art/set designers appreciate the radio aesthetic. I certainly do!
In the 1959 movie “On the Beach” there is an interesting side story of a CW transmission
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053137/
The second is an R 946 F I model from 1959, produced in Hungary, the country where the film was shot last year.
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/videoton_szimfonia_r_946_f_iv.html
In order to be authentical or not, the radio was tuned to 666 kHz on which Radio Odessa has been broadcasting that is just 100 miles from the movie scene Chi?in?u, Moldova.
The second is an R 946 F I model from 1959, produced in Hungary, the country where the film was shot last year.
http://www.radiomuseum.org/r/videoton_szimfonia_r_946_f_iv.html
In order to be authentical or not, the radio was tuned to 666 kHz on which Radio Odessa has been broadcasting that is just 100 miles from the movie scene Chi?in?u, Moldova.
Check out Die Hard 2, loads of Ham gear on there and I think the TS-940 makes an appearance too.
I spotted some Baofeng handhelds along with some Motorola ones in the new Fate of the Furious film!