[Milsurplus] Re: GB> Movie Rig Alert!

[Rich Arland]

Hi Dan:

Actually, I thought that her callsign was the one that Reber (s) the guy who
made the first radio telescope had. Maybe I am wrong...memory can't dredge
up his first name and maybe I have the last name wrong, too. Anyway, I was
told that they used his call as a tribute to his early work in radio
astronomy.

A good friend of mine Paul Harden, NA5N, was Jodie's "geek coach" for her
techno-babble during the movie. According to him she was rather personable.

vy 73

Rich K7SZ

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From: "Dan Barker" <dbarker at visioncomm.net>
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Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 7:36 PM
Subject: RE: GB> Movie Rig Alert!


> Wasn't her call W9GFO?
>
> I wonder how Richard D Harman (Seattle) feels about that, or if he was
> involved in the movie (or if my memory was better in the 1950's)?
>
> Dan / WG4S
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> <snip>
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> In the movie "Contact" with Jodie Foster, she is a youngster and she has a
> collins rig that she's using to play onthe ham bands with. However, did
> anyone catch the SX-62 sitting in the background behind her father in one
> scene early in the movie?
>
> 73 Rich K7SZ
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