{"id":28069,"date":"2018-01-06T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T11:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=28069"},"modified":"2018-01-06T07:46:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T11:46:48","slug":"ed-spots-a-heathkit-hw-101-in-the-royal-tenennbaums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/ed-spots-a-heathkit-hw-101-in-the-royal-tenennbaums\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed spots a Heathkit HW-101 in The Royal Tenennbaums"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ed, who writes:<\/p>\n

I was in my corner bar last night in Philadelphia where “The Royal Tenennbaums<\/a>” (2001) was playing on the projection screen. I wasn’t really watching it, but a scene showing a Heathkit HW-101 HF transceiver suddenly caught my eye. When I told my my drinking buddy, Richard, “That’s a Heathkit HW-101!” He called me a hopeless geek.<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure what tuner is on the shelf below it, but maybe a SWLing blog reader can identify it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Great job spotting the HW-101, Ed!<\/p>\n

Ed actually sent this tip to me several months ago, but it got buried in my drafts folder–sorry about that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ed, who writes: I was in my corner bar last night in Philadelphia where “The Royal Tenennbaums” (2001) was playing on the projection screen. I wasn’t really watching it, but a scene showing a Heathkit HW-101 HF transceiver suddenly caught my eye. When I told my my drinking buddy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,305],"tags":[6732,5506,6731],"class_list":["post-28069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-heathkit-hw-101","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-the-royal-tenennbaums"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7iJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43486,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/lets-take-a-deep-dive-into-our-favorite-radios\/","url_meta":{"origin":28069,"position":0},"title":"Let’s take a deep dive into a list of our favorite radios!","author":"Thomas","date":"May 24, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past week, I asked the SWLing Post community if they've ever regretting parting with a radio, and then what radios they've owned that had the most \"fun\" factor. 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