[ARC5] "1917"

[Phillip Carpenter]

I’ve posted a link to Radio of the Front Lines which makes clear the radio in 1917 was not reliable nor very effective.

Phillip WB4PAC 

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> On Mar 8, 2020, at 3:44 PM, Gene Smar via ARC5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> SPOILER ALERT!
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> If you haven't seen the movie "1917" and intend to, read no further.  Hit
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> Gents:
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>     My YF and I went to the local theater to see "1917" last evening.  It
> was riveting and an edge-of-the-seat experience.  
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>     However, being an experienced Ham radio operator and one who also
> collects milrads and is, therefore, familiar with the evolution of RF
> technologies over the past century-plus, the basic plot of the movie
> disturbed me a bit.  Weren't there wireless sets of appropriate capability
> extant during the spring of 1917 (the period during which the movie's action
> occurred) to enable one British HQ field office to contact another only a
> day's walk away and warm the remote forces of the trap being set for them by
> the Kaiser's forces?  Would it have been unnecessary to send two Brits on a
> march across No Man's Land to deliver a written message to the forces in
> danger?  
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>     I didn't mention anything about this conundrum to my YF who paid the
> $20 for the tickets until we were in the car after the movie.  Might the
> state-of-the-art at the time have made this movie plot more of a fantasy
> than it was portrayed?
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> 73 de
> Gene Smar  AD3F
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