Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Hirst, who writes:
Thomas,
K-dramas with Korean subtitles can be a useful form of language immersion, so I recently came across this comedy sitcom on YouTube.
In this clip, we see Winter, Karina, and Giselle of the K-pop girl group Aespa.
Behind them are what appears to be a Beomaster 900M and a Philips
Philetta.
Mark
You’ve got sharp eyes, Mark! Thank you for sharing.
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Paul, who writes:
Hi Thomas I thought readers may be interested in this YouTube video about Ham Radio in the Movies. It details quite a number of radios that were featured in different movies.
Click here to view on YouTube.
Cheers, Paul
Christchurch, New Zealand
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who writes:
Thomas,
I picked up Season 5 of the cult TV show “The Avengers” at a street market last weekend.
In the episode “Never, never say die”, Mrs Emma Peel follows a lead and meets a radio ham playing chess with other radio hams around the world.
With all the little details in the room, I wonder if someone involved in setting up the scene knew something about amateur radio?
Mark
I bet they did, Mark! How many of these fine radios can the SWLing Post community identify? Please comment!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who writes:
I spotted this radio in the Korean zombie outbreak drama ‘Happiness’ currently showing on Netflix.
You’ve got sharp eyes, Mark! Can anyone positively identify that transceiver in the background?
by Dan Robinson
We have seen so many great receivers and other equipment appear in movies, it’s surprising that this one may have slipped by our Radios in Movies radar.
In Apocalypse Now, the classic 1979 epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is briefed in a hotel room in Saigon about Colonel Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando), the renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The scene includes Harrison Ford (by the time the movie came he had become a big star with Star Wars) who tells Sheen that Kurtz is to be “terminated”.
But as we’re reminded in a post on the Collins Collectors Facebook page, a famous radio is sitting on a file cabinet in this scene — identified in the collector group as a KWM-2A.
It’s another reminder of how many great examples of amateur radio and other equipment have played roles in great movies!
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bruce Fisher, who writes:
Here’s a radio from the 1953 French film (whose English title is) “The Wages of Fear“. Can anyone identify it?
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Perry Lusk, who writes:
Guess what kids? Another radio sighting from the 1986 film Let’s Get
Harry! Lots of big names in this one including Mark Harmon, Robert
Duvall, Gary Busey, and former founding member of the Eagles Glenn Frey.
While on a covert rescue mission in Columbia, they found the bad guy’s
hideout with some old Yaesu equipment among other radios.
Hmmm… I wonder how far they could get out with that mag-mount
antenna? And what band is it tuned for?