Unlike the kids here at work I refuse to watch a movie on a telephone! The wife and I prefer to get the Blu-ray and watch on the fifty inch. So, the Oppenheimer move just became available over the holiday and we got to watch that. As usual everyone wants to complain about the radios they used and the accuracy of that depiction. First problem for me is the Nixie Tube count down timer. I going to go out on a limb and say that I do not believe that technology existed until the sixties, may be wrong but don’t think so and second why are they using a BC-348 as a ground net receiver? Would think that they had to have several networks at Trinity for timing and all that sort of stuff and maybe they were radio but why would they have an aircraft radio that’s 28-volt DC and not something that makes more sense like a BC-342 that works from AC power? Ok, so maybe AC power was not available so then something like a BC-312 but not a BC-348 Don’t get me wrong the BC-348 is maybe my favorite WW2 radio and any time it’s on screen that’s good, just wanted to complain. Also have to say the movie had a lot of flesh in it!

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