[Milsurplus] Robert Watson-Watt and British Radar

[Mark Dinsmore]

The movie is available on Amazon Prime Movies, free with Prime membership... Planning on watching it this evening.

-Mark

On 3/24/19, 6:11 PM, "milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of Kenneth G. Gordon" <milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net on behalf of kgordon2006 at frontier.com> wrote:

    Well, I just took another look on-line for the movie I and my Wife watched yesterday entitled, 
    "Castles in the Sky". Apparently, there is a Japanese film entitled "Castle (singular) in the 
    Sky" which "confuses" any search engine for the British film.
    
    Anyway, as I mentioned here yesterday, who ever built the sets for the British film had quite 
    a collection of WWII (and later) U.S.military equipment.
    
    Closeups of the electronic gear that Watson-Watt and his team were using included more 
    than one BC-191/375 tuning unit built into the equipment racks, AND at least one BC-348 
    mounted in the middle of a large bit of rack-panelling.
    
    Then there was the HRO receiver, quite obviously but recently completely restored to like 
    new, sitting on a table while the actors were engaging in some sort of conference.
    
    I wish I could re-watch the entire movie with the capability of stopping action in various 
    places just to see what other bits of electronic gear I would find.
    
    Has anyone else here seen this movie? What did you notice about the gear?
    
    Overall, I suppose the movie would be interesting to some of the 
    less-than-electronically-aware folks who see it. It was interesting, but not as "in-depth" as I 
    would have liked to see.
    
    Even so, I think it is well-worth seeing by some of us.
    
    Ken W7EKB
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