Re: [IRCA] Movie question, but not OT

[Milspec390@xxxxxxx]

E'er we forget Outer Limits 60s episode, "Galaxy Being", filmed largely  
in/around, IIRC, Mt. Hollywood TV site. Monitors galore and - yes! - great big  
Motorola VHF mitters w/speaker in center, doubtless VHF analog Lo-Band, last  
truly decent form of VHF communication. P-25? For what, P-25? APCO standards?  
Dull.
 
  Check out Rambo II. Yeah, even early mid-life, actor Brian  Dennehy had no 
neck. But N. Vietnamese interrogators had two FAA green-panel  R-388s in 
secret jungle compound!
 
  Look closely at "The Falcon and the Snowman" - couple R-388s  inna TRW 
'secure vault'.
 
 Solely for hardcore receiver maniacs:

Several films, mid-90s to present feature rack drawers from TMC DDR-5 Dual  
Diversity Receivers. Early versions known as AN/FRR-60, solid state w/NIXIE  
readouts dubbed FRR-85. Seen by sharp eyes for fleeting instants.
 
"The Good Shepherd", '06, Tech Control, CIA HQ, several frames of  SP-600, 
left side of rack cabinets along w/possible FRR-60 synth drawer to  right.
 
 Early Bond? Racal RA-17s. Ho hum. But doesn't the latest Bond feature  
RA-17s as well?

What they trying, tell  us?

z
 
"We have the United States of America, Mr. Palmi.
 And the rest of you are just visiting."
                          - Edward Wilson, 
                            "The Good Shepherd"
                            c. 2006
 
 
In a message dated 8/14/2008 4:34:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
michael.d.hawkins@xxxxxxxxx writes:

There is  some noir movie from the late 40s-early 50s (which I can't remember
the  name of) that had a murder in it and a KPIX television truck pulled
up...a  1930s vintage paneled van.  I got a good chuckle.  I bet the  people
at Channel 5 in San Francisco  would too.

Mike

On  Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 1:18 PM, <kj8o@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mike  and Patrick,
>
> Thx guys, I figured it had to be a fictionalized  call sign, but you never
> know until you ask.
>
> Maybe we  should create a listing of fictional radio stations: KLVW, KBBL
>  and
> so on.
>
> 73 de Joe
>
>
> On Thu,  14 Aug 2008 13:09:45 -0700, Mike Hawkins wrote
> > I checked my  records today, and did not find KLVW listed in
> > California anytime  since 1920.
> >
> > Mike Hawkins
> >
> >  On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Patrick Griffith, N0NNK / WPE9HVW  <
> > AM-DXer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >  I have two radio station guides from 1928 and 1929. Neither of them
>  > > shows KLVW as being an active call. Of course it may have been  issued
> > > after these guides were published. Maybe the movie  was promoting the
> > > area's newest radio station!
> >  >
> > > In 1928 San Francisco had KFRC (610), KFWI (930), KGTT  (1420), KJBS
> > > (1100), KPO (680), and KYA (1230). That count  doesn't include the
> > > suburbs. Oakland, San Jose, and Berkeley  added another 7 stations to
> the
> > > mix.
>
>  -- 73 de Joe Miller, KJ8O, Troy, MI -- Grid EN82 --
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