[Boatanchors] WW2 Radios In The Movies...

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I concur.  We watched the entire series last year.

Robert D.

In a message dated 06/05/2012 11:17:32 AM Central Daylight Time, 
bcarling at cfl.rr.com writes: 
> WW2 era Radio Training Depicted
> 
> 1942 spy radios just spotted in a great TV drama from the UK  (ITV) made 
> in 1988 
> and following... 
> 
> The series of shows is called: WISH ME LUCK 
> 
> I have just watched all of Season One - and there are 8 wonderful 
> episodes. 
> 
> This might be old news to some, but I just discovered this wonderful 
> series available
> on Netflix, "Wish Me Luck." A great little drama series - only the first 
> series of 8 episodes is
> on Netflix. They have about 3 series available elsewhere for a higher fee. 
> Maybe Netflix has 
> the rest on DVD?
> 
> It's so wonderful. Episode2 grabbed me when it depicted radio training 
> both telegraphy AND 
> radio repair classes. They have a nice collection of R107 and R1155 radio 
> sets, and they 
> actually work on a few of them too. 
> 
> In episode 3 one of the ops will send their first clandestine transmisison 
> from France to 
> England. Oh wait... am I supposed to be keeping this secret? (grin!)
> 
> Episodes 4 and 5 show a lot of radio comms and a young lady who is 
> stringing up 
> antennas in various locations, and almost gets caught by the German 
> occupation guys.
> It's a great drama with plenty of interest to radio enthusiasts. The 
> radios look something like 
> these:
> 
> SUITCASE SETS PDF book by G3ETA
> 
> Back in England the comms station uses a nice old RCA AR88 receiver which 
> is shown 
> several times in a couple of the episodes. Lots of close ups of radio ops 
> sending and 
> receiving encoded CW messages, with cans on their heads.
> 
> This is probably the best TV drama series including WW2 radio I have seen.
> 
> If you have Netflix you can get 8 episodes of WISH ME LUCK as streaming 
> video. I am not
> trying to promote them. I sure wish they had seasons 2 and 3 available!
> 
> Bry AF4K (Ex-G3XLQ)
> 

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