[Milsurplus] Re: GB> Movie Rig Alert!

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Grote Reber was W9GFZ at one time.
                                       Joe W4AAB
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich Arland" <richard.arland at verizon.net>
To: "Dan Barker" <dbarker at visioncomm.net>; "Ben Dover"
<quixote2 at ix.netcom.com>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>;
<glowbugs at piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: GB> Movie Rig Alert!


> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Barker" <dbarker at visioncomm.net>
> To: "Rich Arland" <richard.arland at verizon.net>; "Ben Dover"
> <quixote2 at ix.netcom.com>; <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>;
> <glowbugs at piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu>
> 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
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > 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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