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

[Rich Oliver]

No, the DD-1 does not have a CRT and I think Doug's other remarks are 
accurate, too.  That having been said I have seen some very professional 
looking mods to such gear.  I have an SX-15, for example, that has had a 
front panel speaker added.  It was done cleanly enough that you need to 
look twice to recognize it as a mod.  I don't know if you could shoehorn 
a CRT into an S-20 but I'd be rather surprised if nobody has ever tried.

I'll keep an eye out for Zontar.  Hey, if he (it?) is from Venus why is 
he talking to Mars??  Guess I'll just have to watch and see if I can 
follow the plot.

Cheers, Rich, KC9GQ

Troglodite at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/13/05 3:08:55 PM Central Standard Time,  
> wa4tuk-rf at comcast.net writes:
> 
> 
>>If you have the chance to view "Sky Captain and the World of  Tomorrow" 
>> there's a quick shot of a Hallicrafter's (something)  with built in scope.
> 
> 
>> The off-topic question is, was this a  real radio or a composite made 
>> just for this movie?
> 
>  
> The receiver shown in that shot was an S-20R. The "CRT" was shown where the  
> speaker grille normally would have been. I suspect the CRT images were CGI'd  
> into the scene like everything else. The receiver did not represent a real  
> model. To my knowledge, the only Hallicrafter products with CRT's were the  
> Panoramic Adaptors intended for use with SX-28's. I don't remember if the Dual  
> Diversity had a CRT on it but I don't think so. Hollywood is not exactly  
> faithful to technical correctness. In the movie, "Zontar, thing from Venus" a  guy 
> talks to mars using a General Radio signal generator.
>  
> All that said though, I liked the movie. I thought they were faithful to  the 
> genre' from which it came, and broke some new ground at the same time. I was  
> raised on the Republic serials, so the format was very familiar. I suspect 
> the  Hallicrafters S-20R was used just because it looked "cool" but not quite 
> cool  enough, so a CRT was added.
>  
> Doug Moore KB9TMY
>  
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