Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood, who writes:
Thomas / SWLing:
You might be hearing “Yãnoma” or “Yanomamö” spoken on the HF bands. Here’s cinematic proof.
A movie has just been released about the Yanomami people’s struggles against cattle farmers and gold miners invading their tribal lands in Brazil and Venezuela. The film is called “The Falling Sky” or “A Queda do Céu” in Portuguese. It’s directed by Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha.
This is a multinational production with resources from Brazil, Italy and France. The movie title is taken from a 2013 book by anthropologist Bruce Albert interviewing Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Brazilian Yanomami people.
This film is being shown at the AFI Latin American Filmfest in Silver Spring, Maryland. “The AFI Latin American Film Festival is one of North America’s largest and longest-running showcases of Latin American cinema.”
https://afisilver.afi.com/silver/laff/
This rig is an older Icom HF commercial transceiver. I have yet to figure out the model number. Any guesses readers?
Tracy
Thank you all. I thought it might have been one of the earlier Icom radios (like an M600 era model) but the Vertex-Standard-Yaesu is it. Case closed.
Icom also has several similar radios they work fantastic I have a couple.
Laurin Cavender WB4IVG
A while ago I tested such a professional HF land mobile radio from Kenwood, it was a professional version of Kenwoods TS-480. Nowadays Kenwood offers a TK-90 (https://www.kenwood.com/india/com/lmr/tk-90/).
In parts of South America HF radios are widely used by organisations. When I was working in Ecuador I also visited an NGO in Quito and in their office they had a Yaesu/Vertex transceiver for communicating with partners in the Amazon jungle.
Regards
Harald DL1AX
Yup VX-1700, I have one of those and nice radio.
VE3FAL
Looks like a Vertex Standard VX-1700.
https://www.psicompany.com/ssb-hf-mobile-radio/
vy73
Harald DL1AX
You got it right Harald.
Nice to meet you everyone.
It is perhaps Yaesu VX-1700.