[Hallicrafters] SX-17 on Battle Star Galactica!!!!

[k0myw at att.net]

Good lord, Duane. Talk about off-topic posts!

Mike, k0myw


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From: "Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
> Bill, 	
> 	
> Wrong! This was originally an excellent series on NBC. It did not last one full
> season because it cost so much to produce that NBC decided to drop it. NBC has
> done this way too many times and canned some of the most popular shows ever,
> including Star Trek, Buck Rogers In The 25Th Century etc.  
> 
> The mission was to 'find' the missing, and possibly just a myth, thirteenth
> tribe, on a shining planet called Earth. This is where Loren Greene, Adama, was
> leading the fleet.		
> 	
> What the Sci Fi channel has come up with is nothing like the original. The two
> young heros, Apollo and Starbuck, both males. Now Starbuck is a girl. Another
> hero, Boomer, was a black man. Now he is a female! You can not make the
> wholesale changes the writers of the new version did and make it work. The shows
> have the same title, but that is just about where the similarities end. If you
> watch the original and then this watered down version the differences are
> striking. Absolutely nobody I have talked to who saw the original cares for the
> new version. 	
> 	
> DBF	
> 
> 	
> 
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> From: Bill Gerhold <k2wh at optonline.net>
> To: hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Hallicrafters] SX-17 on Battle Star Galactica!!!!
> Date: Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:18 PM
> 
> 
> Battle Star Gallactica, a fictitious series about the last remaining 
> human escaping the Cylon machines which have exterminated all the 
> human inhabitants of earth.  The series is about these remaining 
> humans in very large spaceships trying to outwit the Cylon's in an 
> attempt to find a new world to rebuild the human race.  It is a 
> series on the SciFi Channel.  I am referring to the current episode which
> started this Friday the 5th, that I believe will run all this week until a
> new episode next Friday.   
> 
> Last night, watching the series mentioned above, a scene in which the ships
> doctor is in his laboratory, I momentarily spotted what I thought was an
> SX-17 sitting on the shelf behind the good doctor.  No way.  Couldn't have
> been an SX-17.  Anyway, now aware of what I thought I saw, I watched more
> closely and in the very next frame or scene, there it was clearly, a very
> good view of an SX-17 or 16 sitting on a shelf behind and above the right
> shoulder of the doctor looking like a piece of lab equipment.
> 
> The round silver dial, the "S" meter and bandspread were all there.  
> Later in the show, another view of the radio confirming what I was 
> seeing an actual SX-17 or 16 on the shelf.
> 
> Bottom line, its good to see a Hallicrafters rig is still in 
> existence many centuries into the future and being used as something even as
> a prop in a series.  If there are any other SciFi fans, and fans of Battle
> Star Galactica, I would like someone else to confirm what I saw.  I feel
> certain it is an actual SX-17.
> 
> 
> Bill
> K2WH
> 
> 
> ................... Bill (K2WH) ..........................
> 
> 
> 
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