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Old 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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Old 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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Old 27th Oct 2022, 10:46 am   #383
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The question is, or was,
Did the user hold a licence?

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Old 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.
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Old 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.

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Old 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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Old 27th Oct 2022, 12:51 pm   #387
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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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Old 27th Oct 2022, 1:01 pm   #388
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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?!
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Old 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
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Old 27th Oct 2022, 1:58 pm   #390
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Also, can any R/C enthusiasts spot the Sanwa Sabre-2 ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EGxwUil530
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Old 27th Oct 2022, 5:15 pm   #391
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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
Looks more like a bent bi quad set top TV aerial than a couple of coathangers to me......
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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
This also features a Thorn 980 portable TV in the back of the Land Rover.
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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?!
The logo to the top right of the big knob the hand is reaching for looks to be Technics' "Super Class A" symbol. Usually only found on amplifiers, so I guess the window sort of surface to the left will be the obligatory pair of big meters
rather than the cassette door. Awkward angle unless you know them.

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Old 28th Oct 2022, 9:14 am   #394
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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.
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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Soolin from Blakes-7 again, the only reason to watch it...
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Old 28th Oct 2022, 11:00 am   #396
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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?!
Yes, it's the record level control, the cassette deck looks very much like a Technics RS-BX606:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXOONPmu6Dw

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Old 28th Oct 2022, 11:09 am   #397
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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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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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A screen shot from a Technics RS-B565 owners manual.

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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?!
The logo to the top right of the big knob the hand is reaching for looks to be Technics' "Super Class A" symbol. Usually only found on amplifiers, so I guess the window sort of surface to the left will be the obligatory pair of big meters
rather than the cassette door. Awkward angle unless you know them.

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I do know them. It's a Technics cassette deck featuring the Class AA logo in the top right hand corner above the record level control. You can even see the text 'REC LEVEL' just below it.

As has been said, most likely an RS-BX606.
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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
You really need a T1154 to fly a model plane!

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And a lot more too. See what else you can identify. I first saw this film in boarding school in 1961.

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