[Spooks] Shortwave at the movies

[Brooke Clarke]

Hi Hugh:

Nice list of movies.  How about K-19: The Widowmaker where the first Russian Nuclear sub almost has a melt down and radio operator
can not get his HF radio to work because the antenna insulator is shorted out.  You would think that he could string a long wire.
Does anyone have details on the actual radio failure?

73,

Brooke Clarke, N6GCE
http://www.prc68.com

"Utility World (Hugh Stegman)" wrote:

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> Apocalypse Now:   As we know, the thing came out with different endings.  In
> the 70mm roadshow print, the Captain uses a radio to report mission
> accomplished, and goes back to the boat.  In the 35mm wide-release version,
> he uses the radio to call in the air strike, and Kurtz's camp blows up for
> several minutes under closing credits.  Also, Marlon Brando is seen making
> covert propaganda broadcasts using a military manpack.
>
> Contact:  Teenage ham grows up and becomes a radio astronomer, uses
> communication radio savvy to decode messages from extraterrestrials.
>
> Convoy:  Like in the song, the interstate truck drivers use CB radios to
> form the ultimate truck convoy.
>
> Crimson Tide: US missile sub gets EAM message to stand by for missile
> launch, but then doesn't get confirmation or cancellation.  Captain tries to
> launch WW III over crew objections, starting a mutiny and gun battle for
> control of the sub.
>
> Eye of the Needle:  WW II spy in Britain uses short wave radio to contact
> handlers.
>
> Frequency:  Kid finds his dead father's old ham radio and fires it up during
> the mother of all auroral storms.  He hears his dad from the past and tries
> to influence history to prevent his untimely death.
>
> Gangs of New York (30s version): Mob boss runs operations from a covert
> short wave radio hidden in his cell.  He is caught and thrown in solitary.
> Note that Martin Scorsese's Oscar contender from last year has the same
> title, but it is set in the 1860s.
>
> King of the Rocket Men: Classic 50s B-grade serial features a guy who can
> fly with a rocket suit, battling the evil Dr. Vulcan, whose lair sure looks
> like a nice old AM transmitting site, wire antenna and all.  The same
> Motorola VHF repeaters appear as set-dress all the way through, in many
> different scenes.  The Disney flick Rocketeer drew heavily on this one for
> art direction.
>
> The Longest Day:  French Resistance listens to the BBC for coded
> instructions.  Announcer reads messages, not Steaganographic but just lines
> from poems and such.  When "Wound and fill my heart with a monotonous
> languour," and "Jean has a black moustache" are heard read on the air,
> members of the Resistance activate pre D-Day invasion support operations.
> This is supposed to be based on actual history.  The simulated broadcast on
> the sound track even has CW QRM.
>
> On the Beach:  The last submarine left in the post-WW III world hears random
> CW beeping, and leaves Australia to see if there is anyone else left alive
> on Earth besides the Australians.  Turns out that a bottle has fallen into a
> window-shade pull loop, contacting the straight key every time wind blows
> through the open window.  This was shot at one of the coastal stations, with
> some great-looking gear.  Character uses the key to send a sitrep back to
> the sub in fast Morse.  I remember copying "...BOTTLE RESTING ON KEY..."
>
> Rolling Down the Great Divide:  Cattle rustlers coordinate their criminal
> activities with short wave radios.
>
> This Island Earth:  Secret agents in our midst use hidden, futuristic radio
> consoles hidden in their homes to contact a race of aliens seeking to invade
> the Earth.  Radio is called an "Interrositer."
>
> And last year there was a movie called CQ, but it had nothing to do with
> radio at all.
>
> -hugh
>
> Hugh Stegman  NV6H   34N 118W
> MT Utility World
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