[Boatanchors] WW2 Radios In The Movies...

[Kenneth Grimm]

Netflix has three seasons, 23 episodes of Wish Me Luck.

73,

Ken - K4XL

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:34 PM, <WA5CAB at cs.com> wrote:

> 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)
> >
>
> Robert Downs - Houston
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