{"id":35699,"date":"2019-01-26T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35699"},"modified":"2019-01-24T08:15:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T12:15:48","slug":"radios-in-godzilla-2-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/radios-in-godzilla-2-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Radios in Godzilla 2 trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-24-at-7.08.18-AM-e1548331740593.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35700\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-24-at-7.08.18-AM-e1548331740593.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Ron Chester (W6AZ), who notes that the new Godzilla film contains a number of boat anchors.<\/p>\n<p>What I think is so funny is how they&#8217;ve altered the logging\/fine tune dial of the Hammarlund SP-600 to look like signal strength meter! For someone who has owned an SP-600, this is a little strange to say the least!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DXrQiN0ei5s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DXrQiN0ei5s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Ron Chester (W6AZ), who notes that the new Godzilla film contains a number of boat anchors. What I think is so funny is how they&#8217;ve altered the logging\/fine tune dial of the Hammarlund SP-600 to look like signal strength meter! For someone who has owned an SP-600, this is [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,43],"tags":[7570,5506,7461],"class_list":["post-35699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-godzilla-2","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-ron-chester-w6az"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9hN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35167,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/cds-shortwave-an-interactive-audio-piece-from-duke-cds\/","url_meta":{"origin":35699,"position":0},"title":"CDS Shortwave: An interactive audio piece from Duke CDS","author":"Thomas","date":"December 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Ron Chester (W6AZ), who writes: Have you seen this site from Duke University's Center For Documentary Studies? Shortwave is so cool that the digital nerds are now working on reproducing it on the Internet. It's got a great interface, authentic sounding noise between stations, a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-5.36.31-AM-e1544611629772.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-5.36.31-AM-e1544611629772.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-12-at-5.36.31-AM-e1544611629772.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":46905,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/dans-respect-for-hammarlund-and-the-sp-600-series\/","url_meta":{"origin":35699,"position":1},"title":"Dan&#8217;s respect for Hammarlund and the SP-600 series","author":"Thomas","date":"December 13, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, DanH, who shares the following comment in response to this news article from the Citizen Times featured in Radio Waves yesterday: Here are my thanks to members of the Amateur Radio community and The News-Record & Sentinel for remembering the legacy of Hammarlund Manufacturing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hammarlund-SP-600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hammarlund-SP-600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hammarlund-SP-600.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hammarlund-SP-600.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":35845,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/dan-spots-a-hammarlund-sp-600-in-the-shape-of-water\/","url_meta":{"origin":35699,"position":2},"title":"Dan spots a Hammarlund SP-600 in &#8220;The Shape of Water&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"February 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: Did anyone ever notice this [in The Shape of Water]? I have not seen the film yet, but how could we miss that classic Cold War rig?! Very cool--thanks for sharing, Dan! I\u2019ll add this post\u00a0to\u00a0our archive of radios in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Shape-Of-Water-SP-600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Shape-Of-Water-SP-600.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Shape-Of-Water-SP-600.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Shape-Of-Water-SP-600.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":43398,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/have-you-ever-regretted-saying-goodbye-to-a-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":35699,"position":3},"title":"Have you ever regretted saying goodbye to a radio?","author":"Thomas","date":"May 20, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"A lot of radios come through SWLing Post HQ each year. Over the years, I'd like to think that I've become immune to the effects of giving away, trading, or selling radios that have been in the shack for a while. But let's face it: I'm just fooling myself! As\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hallicrafters-SX-24-Skyrider-Defiant.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hallicrafters-SX-24-Skyrider-Defiant.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hallicrafters-SX-24-Skyrider-Defiant.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Hallicrafters-SX-24-Skyrider-Defiant.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31342,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-shape-of-water-features-a-benchmark-cold-war-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":35699,"position":4},"title":"&#8220;The Shape of Water&#8221; features a benchmark Cold War receiver","author":"Thomas","date":"March 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Hawkins, who writes: The Academy Award for Best Picture of 2018 goes to Guillermo de Toro\u2019s \u201cThe Shape of Water.\u201d This celebrated shortwave radio appears several times in the move as a prop for the Cold War-era control room of Richard Strickland (played\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Boat Anchors&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Boat Anchors","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/boat-anchors-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/shapewat-1-1024x557.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/shapewat-1-1024x557.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/shapewat-1-1024x557.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24789,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/exceedingly-rare-northern-radio-modified-sp-600\/","url_meta":{"origin":35699,"position":5},"title":"Exceedingly rare Northern Radio modified SP-600","author":"Thomas","date":"March 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: Those of us who still use SP-600s, and those of us who once did but can't deal with them in retirement, lust after some of the rarer versions of the radio. This is one of them, the Northern Radio modified\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Boat Anchors&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Boat Anchors","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/boat-anchors-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hammarlund-SP-600-J-1024x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hammarlund-SP-600-J-1024x600.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Hammarlund-SP-600-J-1024x600.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}