Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Balázs Kovács, who discovered a number of scenes in Fear the Walking Dead that feature various radios. Balázs notes:
In the last episodes (after a hurricane) various two way radios were quite frequently used.
Thanks, Balázs! That looks like a Kenwood HF transceiver on the table. Anyone know the model? Please comment!
Of course, I’ll add this post to our ever growing archive of radios in film!
I believe it’s a Kenwood TS820 or TS830
That radio looks exactly like my old classic and much loved Kenwood TS-830, though the TS-530 is very similar, so another possibility.
Some info about the TS-830 can be found here: http://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/ts830s.htm
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http://www.iw5edi.com/technical-articles/kenwood-ts-830s-review
https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/ts830s.html
it’s a Kenwood TS-830s, w/o doubt; and the mike is an astatic 878 (if I’m not wrong, I owned one of those and a “silver eagle” as well); the 830 was a quite good rig, although I still prefer the old JRC base station, someone says they were deaf but I know that with a bit of patience and some good antenna, they were anything but deaf
It’s the TS-830
https://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/hamhf/ts830s.html
Not all solid state as it got twin 6146 final tubes
Also I took a frame of one episode, with a little ceramic pig, with “I LOVE HAM RADIO” write on a side…very funny. That’s confirm that we can help even in a zombie attack !!!
It could be a TS-180. I had one in the late 1980’s. All Solid State.
Looks much like a TS-530S.