[AMRadio] Sci Fi Boatanchors

[John E. Coleman]

	Old radio transmitters were and still are very impressive
looking and of the era that you are speaking, they may have been one of
the most impressive of electronic gadgetry that the producers had ever
seen.  I'm sure that most of them had visited radio stations of the era
and for one reason or another and had memories of the big transmitter.
They may have done a mockup using the transmitter as an image of what
they believed would be an impressive contraption that would be used for
the purpose of powering and controlling teleportation.  I would think
they would not want to move something as heavy as a real transmitter
around but who knows about those people.

Interesting Subject!

John, WA5BXO

 

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From: amradio-admin at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:amradio-admin at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Donald Chester
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2002 2:51 PM
To: amradio at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [AMRadio] Sci Fi Boatanchors

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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