[Heathkit] Vintage Rigs On The Silver Screen

[Denis Barton]

I think ther was some Heath gear in the movie 'The Glass Bottom Boat'. 
Arthur Godfrey stared in it and I beleave he was a ham.
Denis, WB8SKP

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kelley" <dkelley at bucknell.edu>
To: <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Vintage Rigs On The Silver Screen


> Hi Duane,
>
> I recall a short-lived action-adventure series on TV in the late 1970s
> or early 1980s called "Code R." It was about a marine (as in water, not
> the USMC) search and rescue team that had lots of gratuitous shots of
> fast boats in sunny beach areas. The dispatchers in the show used a very
> nice vintage Heathkit TX/RX set. It might have been the Apache/Mohawk
> pair. Every time the dispatcher sent out a call, those Heathkits filled
> the screen with their pale green glory. It was a site to behold for a
> radio-smitten teen-ager.
>
> 73,
> Dave ND3K
>
>
> David F. Kelley, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor and Chair
> Electrical Engineering Dept.
> Bucknell University
> Lewisburg, PA 17837
> (570) 577-1313
>
> Chair, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Education Committee
> Associate Editor, Antennas and Propagation Magazine Education Column
>
>
>
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>> From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF"<dfischer at usol.com>
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>> Hi All,
>>
>> If any of you know of any vintage rigs that appeared in the movies, or on
>> TV, please send me all the details! By request I am attempting to
>> reconstruct an old Hallicrafters web site article that featured Halli's 
>> In
>> The Movies. But I want to combine all makes and models this time and need
>> your help to do so.
>>
>> So please help the old blind dude out guys! TNX!
>>
>>
>>
>> Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
>> E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
>> Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
>> HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net
>>
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