Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes:
As a tribute to Sean Connery, who passed away today, let’s see if your readers may identify this radio set found in Goldfinger from 1964:
Please comment if you can ID this radio in Goldfinger!
Thank you for sharing this, Carlos. Sean Connery was a great man and, no doubt, *the* James Bond for many of us. Rest in Peace Mr. Connery.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Pete Madtone, who writes:
I was coming home from my tai chi class in the local park yesterday and remembered this play that I watched a long time ago. Please tell me you don’t know it!
[In] the credits at the end it has another radio connection: the UK reggae DJ (BBC) David Rodigan. Great eh?
“Life changes dramatically for radio amateur Norman when he gets in touch with a round-the-world yachtsman who introduces him to a different life – and a taste of fame.”
Thanks, Pete! I was not at all familiar with this TV Movie, but I absolutely love the nostalgia factor!
Post readers: Anyone familiar with “C.Q.”–? Do you remember watching it when it was first broadcast in 1984? Please comment!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:
[Found this Tecsun S2000 or Grundig 750] in the Canadian TV series Pure, which lasted 2 seasons, about Mennonites in Ontario involved in drug trafficking from Mexico.
Thanks for the tip, Dan! I was not at all familiar with this series.
We’ll put this in our ever-growing collection of radios in movies.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mehdi, who writes
Hey Thomas. I have seen some of your posts on identifying radios in movies. I just wanted to tell you that there are at least 2 HF tarnsceivers shown in the trailer of the upcoming film “Love and Monsters” : Kenwood TS-520S, Kenwood TS-130S
Great catches, Mehdi! No doubt, if they’re in the trailer, there may be more in the movies.
Thanks for sharing!
Here’s the full trailer:
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ward, who writes:
Magnum PI episode #62 contains a ham radio that they refer to as shortwave.
Higgens calls for help on [this radio] during a hurricane. The radio receives a gun shot at the end of the show.
73, Ward
Thank you for sharing, Ward!
So the screen shots aren’t the highest quality in terms of seeing detail, but I think I know the model of the radio that was (sadly!) shot. 🙂
The buttons and encoder are almost unmistakable from this manufacturer.
What you you think, Post readers? Care to comment with your guess?
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes with another mystery radio to identify:
This radio (see photo above) is featured in the mid 1970’s TV show ‘The New Avengers’, an episode called “To Catch a Rat”. Mysterious morse code messages are being intercepted in this scene.
Can you help Mark identify this radio model? Is it even a radio or is it simply a speaker? Please comment if you can ID this one!
I’ll add this post to our (massive) archive of radios in film.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Tracy Wood (K7OU), who shares the following guest post:
Arganda del Rey Transmitter Building
SWLing.com now takes “Spot the shortwave radio set in the movie or show” to new heights –
The former Radio Exterior de España (REE) shortwave transmitter site at Arganda del Rey forms the backdrop for the fourth season of the hit Spanish TV series “El Ministerio del Tiempo” (the Ministry of Time). The show’s premise – unlike today’s superpowers with their high-tech kinetic weaponry, Spain’s 21st century advantage lies in the nation’s time-traveling skills.
Grand Entrance looking down on actor
The show’s producers tip their hat to the “Centro Emisor de Onda Corta” facility as the Ministry of Time’s “headquarters” relocates this season to this historic broadcast complex. The large engineering library, old shortwave transmitters, electric rectification hardware and even antenna field form a ready-made stage.
Power rectification units
Up into the early 1990’s Arganda del Rey served as a shortwave and medium wave site. When all the shortwave services finally migrated over to Noblejas (40 km SE) the Arganda del Rey center continued as the long-standing medium wave location for Radio Nacional de España’s Radio 1 (585 kHz 600kw) and Radio 5 (657 kHz 50kw). Arganda is now completely inactive with the last transmissions being DRM tests on 1359 kHz with 10 kilowatts. The facility was replaced by Madrid’s Majadahonda site.
Ministerio de Tiempo viewers first get a hint of the radio connection as the character “Alonso de Entrerríos“ (played by José Ignacio “Nacho” Fresneda García) drives towards the new headquarters. In the background we see the old Radio 5 antenna array. As the character Alonso approaches the building he looks up and sees the historic “Radio Nacional de España” lettering above the building entrance thus confirming the “Headquarters” original purpose.
Cross Dipole Antenna
A DXer might mistake the Radio 5 array for a shortwave NVIS antenna but instead it is a rare medium-wave cross-dipole arrangement; it was also this antenna that RTVE used for the DRM tests. The only remaining shortwave antennae at Arganda del Rey are some abandoned log-periodics which support a growing stork colony.
Satellite TVRO hobbyists also may recognize the “Arganda del Rey” municipality. HISPASAT has established its main uplink facility in a nearby industrial park in this same Madrid suburb.
Radio textbooks and HF transmitter in background…
Many thanks to DXer Pedro Sedano, General Coordinator of the Asociación Española de Radioescuchas (aer.org.es), for confirming the complete abandonment of Arganda del Rey from an RF-perspective. Also contributing is Ulis Fleming, K3LU, who several months earlier identified a NO-DO newsreel that helped tie the pieces together.
An English-language description of the facility is here:
https://www.esmadrid.com/en/tourist-information/centro-emisor-onda-corta-rne-arganda-rey
“ Located on the Chinchón road, alongside the Arganda Bridge, this former Radio Nacional de España building, opened in 1954, is today popular for being the new headquarters of The Ministry of Time in its fourth season, the successful TVE series, as well as having appeared in other productions, such as a post office in Velvet Collection (Movistar +), and as the Medical Research Centre in La Valla (Antena 3).”
“The building, now abandoned, forms part of a set of buildings located on both sides of the road in which RNE had the headquarters of the medium and short-wave radio stations, houses and warehouses, whereby the most representative is this monumental property that was home to the short-wave radio station. “
“The building was designed by the architect, Diego Méndez, following the guidelines of classic architecture from the Franco era. Inside, the entrance hall stands out, a square room decorated with polychromatic marbles, presided by an impressive staircase with two flights of stairs, which is also in marble. On the first floor, there is all of the machinery for generating the necessary voltage and current for the short-wave transmitters, and the third floor has a library with important telecommunications books and articles.”
LAT-LON: 40°18’47.09″N 3°30’34.95″W
Show Wikipedia URL (in English):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_ministerio_del_tiempo
— Tracy Wood (K7OU)
Thank you so much, Tracy, for putting this post together!
Now I wish my Spanish comprehension was better as I’d love to watch this show–sounds like a fascinating story line! And the transmitter site is pure radio eye candy! Brilliant!
