{"id":57375,"date":"2023-08-03T08:36:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T12:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=57375"},"modified":"2023-08-03T08:36:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T12:36:55","slug":"bill-identifies-a-credit-card-ht-in-the-movie-hollow-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/bill-identifies-a-credit-card-ht-in-the-movie-hollow-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill identifies a “credit card” HT in the movie “Hollow Man”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Bill Hemphill (WD9EQD) who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hi Thomas,<\/p>\n

Last night, I was watching the movie “Hollow Man<\/a>.” Being a ham, I’m always watching for ham gear being used in movies. Quite often they use various Kenwood or Icom handheld radios.<\/p>\n

At about 1 and half hours in the movie, I caught a glimpse of what I thought was one
\nof the more usual (and unlikely) ham heldhelds:<\/p>\n

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Just from this screen clip, I was pretty sure that I was looking at the Alinco DJ-C5 credit card HT.<\/p>\n

I was able to capture another clip that confirmed it:<\/p>\n

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In the late 90’s, Alinco made three credit card radios; DJ-C1 for two meters, DJ-C4 for 440 and finally the DJ-C5 dual band that could also receive the aircraft band.<\/p>\n

The C1 and C4 were earpiece only radios while the C5 had a small speaker added which made it a lot more usable.<\/p>\n

They are quite amazing little radios. It was great fun seeing them appear in a movie.<\/p>\n

Here’s one of mine with a ink pen next to it to show size:<\/p>\n

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Thank you for sharing this, Bill! I remember when these credit card-sized HTs were on the market and I wanted one if for no other reason than to feel like a spy! Great catch, OM!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Hemphill (WD9EQD) who writes: Hi Thomas, Last night, I was watching the movie “Hollow Man.” Being a ham, I’m always watching for ham gear being used in movies. Quite often they use various Kenwood or Icom handheld radios. At about 1 and half hours in the movie, I […]<\/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":[545,3,305],"tags":[10278,10279,10280,6954,5506],"class_list":["post-57375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-alinco-dj-c1","tag-alinco-dj-c4","tag-alinco-dj-c5","tag-bill-hemphill-wd9eqd","tag-radios-in-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-eVp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":53780,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/the-new-alinco-dj-x100-wideband-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":57375,"position":0},"title":"The new Alinco DJ-X100 wideband receiver","author":"Thomas","date":"August 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It appears that Alinco will soon introduce a new wideband handheld receiver covering 30 to 470MHz. 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