[Milsurplus] WWII Radios As Movie/TV Props

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>

> One of my favorite sci-fi movies is the 1979 "Alien" movie.  Eight minutes 
> into the movie, the captain goes into a darkened corridor and turns on a 
> small lamp.  Directly under the lamp is a C-30A/ARC-5 HF/VHF transmitter 
> control box. ...

Nice to see that, in the future, mankind finds the wisdom
to prefer simple and reliable over fancy and fragile.  ;-)
And besides- tube equipment is immune to those
nasty Alien EMP weapons, not to mention Klingon disrupters.