{"id":46841,"date":"2020-12-09T10:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T14:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=46841"},"modified":"2020-12-09T10:29:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T14:29:40","slug":"can-you-id-this-radio-in-death-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/can-you-id-this-radio-in-death-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you ID this radio in &#8220;Death in Paradise&#8221;&#8211;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Death-in-paradise-1-e1599565559425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45245\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Death-in-paradise-1-e1599565559425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Paul Evans (W4\/VP9KF), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh no, I spotted another radio to identify in about a 1 second clip from &#8220;Death In Paradise&#8221;, Series 9, Episode 7.<\/p>\n<p>This should be easier, but is it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dip1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46842\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dip1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dip1.png 376w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/dip1-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bonus points for the name of the lizard!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh! That&#8217;s a tough one. Thanks for sharing, Paul!<\/p>\n<p>Please comment if you can correctly ID this radio (or the lizard)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Evans (W4\/VP9KF), who writes: Oh no, I spotted another radio to identify in about a 1 second clip from &#8220;Death In Paradise&#8221;, Series 9, Episode 7. This should be easier, but is it? Bonus points for the name of the lizard! Oh! That&#8217;s a tough one. Thanks for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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],"tags":[5457,7864,5506],"class_list":["post-46841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-death-in-paradise","tag-paul-evans-w4-vp9kf","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cbv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46666,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/can-you-id-the-radio-in-this-pharmaceutical-ad\/","url_meta":{"origin":46841,"position":0},"title":"Can you ID the radio in this pharmaceutical ad?","author":"Thomas","date":"November 26, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thank to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Evans (W4\/VP9KF), who writes: I was watching a TV advert (well, no I wasn't), but then this one comes on with a drug for COPD. On the kitchen table, along with the inhaler thing there just happens to be a radio :-) Let's\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\/2020\/11\/trelegy.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/trelegy.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/trelegy.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/trelegy.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":40804,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/radio-deal-hro-black-friday-sale-icom-ic-7300-899-95-after-rebates\/","url_meta":{"origin":46841,"position":1},"title":"Radio Deal: HRO 2019 Black Friday sale Icom IC-7300 $899.95 after rebates","author":"Thomas","date":"November 26, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Paul Evans (W4\/VP9KF), who notes that HRO's Black Friday sale features the Icom IC-7300 for $899.95 after rebates. 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