Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed, who writes:
I was in my corner bar last night in Philadelphia where “The Royal Tenennbaums” (2001) was playing on the projection screen. I wasn’t really watching it, but a scene showing a Heathkit HW-101 HF transceiver suddenly caught my eye. When I told my my drinking buddy, Richard, “That’s a Heathkit HW-101!” He called me a hopeless geek.
I’m not sure what tuner is on the shelf below it, but maybe a SWLing blog reader can identify it.
Great job spotting the HW-101, Ed!
Ed actually sent this tip to me several months ago, but it got buried in my drafts folder–sorry about that!
The top picture is a 101. But the picture from the movie sho shows a slightly different front panel, so yes, it must be a HW-100.
Actually it’s a HW–100, not HW–101.
Hi Farley…..
If you look a little closer at the nameplate, it’s an HW-101. I have one, so I took a closer look.
That is clearly an HW-100. The tuning dial is different from the HW-101.
Bought and assembled one of those many moons ago. 1975 or so?
The term “ham” was first a pejorative term used in professional wired telegraphy during the 19th century, to mock operators with poor Morse code sending skills (“ham-fisted”). This term continued to be used after the invention of radio and the proliferation of amateur experimentation with wireless telegraphy; among land- and sea-based professional radio operators, “ham” amateurs were considered a nuisance.
…but what is H. A. M. radio?
When did ham become an acronym?
New one on me.