[Milsurplus] WWII Radios As Movie/TV Props

[Bob Camp]

Hi

The big thing it's resistant to is radiation. You would hate for your  
emergency radio to go out right after that big solar flare.

Bob


On Jan 3, 2008, at 8:09 AM, David Stinson wrote:

>
> ----- 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.
>
>
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