{"id":36081,"date":"2019-02-14T08:24:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36081"},"modified":"2019-02-14T08:24:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T12:24:23","slug":"adam-spots-a-racal-ra17-in-johnny-mnemonic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/adam-spots-a-racal-ra17-in-johnny-mnemonic\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam spots a Racal RA17 in Johnny Mnemonic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

One for your “radios in movies” collection: in “Johnny Mnemonic” (1995),
\nthere’s a Racal RA17 in one of the racks in the Lo-Teks’ headquarters.<\/p>\n

There’s also a Rohde and Schwarz SMDF\/SMDA RF signal generator in the
\nnext rack which plays a pivotal role in the final scene…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Great catch, Adam! Thank you for sharing!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll add this post\u00a0to\u00a0our archive of radios in film.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adam Sampson, who writes: One for your “radios in movies” collection: in “Johnny Mnemonic” (1995), there’s a Racal RA17 in one of the racks in the Lo-Teks’ headquarters. There’s also a Rohde and Schwarz SMDF\/SMDA RF signal generator in the next rack which plays a pivotal role in the […]<\/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":[3,305,26],"tags":[7610,7611,7612,5506],"class_list":["post-36081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radios","tag-adam-sampson","tag-johnny-mnemonic","tag-racal-ra17","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9nX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38555,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/adi-spots-a-racal-receiver-in-an-episode-of-white-gold\/","url_meta":{"origin":36081,"position":0},"title":"Adid spots a Racal receiver in an episode of “White Gold”","author":"Thomas","date":"July 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Adid, who writes: I just watched first episode of Netflix's \"White Gold\" when out of the blue I saw that rack. 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