Can you identify this radio from the 1992 film, ‘Sneakers’–?

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Emilio Ruiz, who writes:

Hi Thomas,

I’m sending you and The SWLing Post readers these screenshots from the cult
movie Sneakers; a great movie about incipient world of hacker security
(phreaking, hacking, cryptography, etc).

In a scene with Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd, it looks like a radio communications receiver in the background, but i don’t know what brand is.

Could you help for identification?

Great job spotting that radio in the background! Readers: please comment if you can help Emilio identify this rig!

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6 thoughts on “Can you identify this radio from the 1992 film, ‘Sneakers’–?

  1. Wes

    Yaesu FRG 7 Communications receiver ..
    The Yaesu FRG-7 is an all mode receiver covering 200 kHz to 29.90 MHz in four bands. Modes of reception include AM, USB and LSB/CW. Great receiver even today.. I think I still have one somewhere.

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    1. Edward

      Never saw G7VFW’s earlier reply the first time this page was viewed, if so wouldn’t have said anything.

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  2. Templeton

    It looks like two pieces of accessory equipment. The piece on the right is a Yaesu FV – 101 VFO(variable frequency oscillator). It was sold as an accessory to the FT – 101 series of ham radio transceivers.

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  3. Andrew

    Not sure, but judging from the front panel, it seems a YAESU or, maybe a SOMMERKAMP rig, then maybe I’m wrong, but… have a look at these

    https://www.google.com/search?biw=1827&bih=866&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=%22sommerkamp%22+transceiver&oq=%22sommerkamp%22+transceiver

    look at the controls positioning and style of knobs; also, I tried to process the image (crop and elaborate) but the resolution isn’t high enough; having an higher resolution image may surely help identifying the rig

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