[AMRadio] Sci Fi Boatanchors

[Donald Chester]

A couple of years ago I visited a restaurant in a nearby town, that 
specialises in '50 nastalgia, with Elvis on the jukebox, Ike campaign 
posters, and waitresses dressed  50's style.  They had some old movie 
posters on the wall,  the promos you may remember with still frames that the 
cinema would post outside while a film was showing to attract interest in 
passers-by.  I happened to notice one of the sci-fi film "The Fly".  I  
recall seeing the film while in high school.  It was about a scientist who 
was working on a teleportation device, and when a fly accidentally was 
trapped in the chamber with him, he came out the remote unit part fly, part 
man.  The fly came out part human.  I don't recall how it ended, but the 
story was about him trying to catch the fly unharmed so they both could be 
teleported once again in the machine in hopes that they would emerge 
reconstructed in proper form.  The setting was somewhere in Canada.

When I looked closely at one of  the posters, I noticed that the large gizmo 
in the lab that covered half the wall was actually an early 30's 
transmitter, propably some ham's homebrew kilowatt, or maybe an old 
"composite" broadcast transmitter.  I could recognise tuning dials, meters 
with little metal nameplates, and numerous control knobs and switches.  The 
black (probably wrinkle) cabinet looked to be at about 6 ft. tall and 4-5' 
wide.  The transmitter was correct in too many details as a radio 
transmittet to have  been a hollywood mockup prepared just for the film.  I 
was almost drooling at the sight of that rig, and thinking that it probably 
ended up at the dump after the film shooting was completed.

Don K4KYV

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