{"id":60696,"date":"2024-09-20T19:34:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=60696"},"modified":"2024-09-20T19:35:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T23:35:38","slug":"famous-collins-transceiver-in-apocalypse-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/famous-collins-transceiver-in-apocalypse-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Collins Transceiver in Apocalypse Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

by Dan Robinson<\/p>\r\n

We have seen so many great receivers and other equipment appear in movies, it’s surprising that this one may have slipped by our Radios in Movies radar.

In Apocalypse Now, the classic 1979 epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is briefed in a hotel room in Saigon about Colonel Kurtz (played by Marlon Brando), the renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The scene includes Harrison Ford (by the time the movie came he had become a big star with Star Wars) who tells Sheen that Kurtz is to be “terminated”.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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But as we’re reminded in a post on the Collins Collectors Facebook page<\/a>, a famous radio is sitting on a file cabinet in this scene — identified in the collector group as a KWM-2A.<\/p>\r\n

It’s another reminder of how many great examples of amateur radio and other equipment have played roles in great movies!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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by Dan Robinson We have seen so many great receivers and other equipment appear in movies, it’s surprising that this one may have slipped by our Radios in Movies radar. In Apocalypse Now, the classic 1979 epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is briefed in a hotel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"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],"tags":[2898,4102,5506,4082,681],"class_list":["post-60696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","tag-collins","tag-ham-radio","tag-radios-in-movies","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-vintage-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-fMY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52090,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/jim-is-impressed-with-the-collins-75a-4-and-kenwood-r-600\/","url_meta":{"origin":60696,"position":0},"title":"Jim is impressed with the Collins 75A-4 and Kenwood R-600","author":"Thomas","date":"March 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jim Meirose, who recently shared a few photos and writes: \u00a0 This is the equipment currently in use here in Somerville, NJ. 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