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

[Mark Bell]

I WASN'T dreaming then!!   I thought it was an SX-16 in Baltar's Lab !!

73 Mark K3MSB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gerhold" <k2wh at optonline.net>
To: <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 2:18 PM
Subject: [Hallicrafters] SX-17 on Battle Star Galactica!!!!


>
> 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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