18th May 2022, 7:12 pm | #381 |
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I noticed a couple of 'Vega' style Soviet portable TVs mounted to the synth rig of band 'We Are Domi'. Not sure of exact model but it seems they have the distinctive mains adaptor bolted onto the back:
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26th Oct 2022, 7:43 pm | #382 |
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In today's "Dempsey and Makepeace' (ITV4) there was at least one clear view of an ICOM IC-271E 2 metre multimode serving as a 'police communications radio' - on 145.785MHz!
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27th Oct 2022, 10:46 am | #383 |
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The question is, or was,
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27th Oct 2022, 10:58 am | #384 |
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I didn't pay too much attention but when the operator picked up the microphone and spoke into it, I don't remember the meter swinging across, so it probably wasn't really transmitting.
This is all quite sad, really - a programme featuring Glynis Barber - the real reason anyone ever watched it, obviously - and here I am fixating on radios. Apparently she joined the cast of Hollyoaks this year, so she's still around. There was also a character using a Pye/Philips 'shaver' microphone in a vehicle, no sign of the radio it was allegedly connected to but the microphone was probably period-correct and not anachronistic. |
27th Oct 2022, 12:32 pm | #385 |
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The Icom transceiver was of the era the programme was made and set in, so it wasn't anachronistic, it was simply wrong.
There was most probably no antenna connected anyway. "I had a go with the microphone, but didn't press PTT" would have Americas laughing. David
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27th Oct 2022, 12:43 pm | #386 |
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I think I've always misunderstood 'anachronistic' as meaning 'incorrect / out of place', but the '...chron...' part should have given it away, I guess. I'll know better in future.
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I've seen a Trio 9R59DS comms receiver masquerading as a transmitter. Can't remember the programme though.
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There's an advert for Co-op Funerals running on TV currently where a lady explains her love of music and dancing throughout her life and how she wants her funeral to reflect this. It ends with her reaching out to turn up a 'volume knob' and her music gets louder.
Please tell me I'm not the only one who has noticed that her hi-fi system has a turntable, tuner, cassette deck and speakers but no amplifier, and the 'volume control' she's turning up is actually the record level control on the Technics cassette deck?! |
27th Oct 2022, 1:42 pm | #389 |
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Context: I build R/C equipment & fly model aircraft.
A long time ago there was a kids film called 'Sky Pirates' in which the baddies hijacked an R/C model in flight to transport stolen diamonds over the channel. They did this using a B40 comms rx fitted with a coathanger aerial and, crucially, motorcycle indicators Last edited by Phil__G; 27th Oct 2022 at 1:53 pm. |
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28th Oct 2022, 9:14 am | #394 |
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Thanks for that. I was desperately trying to remember her name. (I kept thinking of Glynis Johns but that is an earlier period.) I was very active on 144MHz around that time and never spotted the ICOM IC-271E at all. Must have been distracted...
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28th Oct 2022, 10:23 am | #395 |
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Soolin from Blakes-7 again, the only reason to watch it...
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Looking further down the thing that does look like a cassette door. Hmm, so what's that logo doing on a cassette deck?
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