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Live Free or Die Hard ...
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Have'nt seen the movie yet but is there a significance with the "666"? BTW 66.6 MHz is in the low end of television channel 4. An Icom CB you say,I know Icom did in fact make CB's for the European FM CB market.Too bad they were never marketed here.
Icom makes all sorts of neat stuff, including marine radios. If I ever get a new one for my boat I'll probably find an Icom.
How's the movie though? Worth watching?
How's the movie though? Worth watching?
74IN said:
I saw two differant movies that used a Radio Shack sound level meter,the kind that has a pickup microphone and a level indicator meter. One movie used it as a bomb detonator and the other used it as a radiation detector.
Joyride was the last movie I saw that had a cb radio in it that played a rather big part in the movie. Cherokee Nightrider 150 , the only thing they did different with the radio was to change the S-Meter to a lighted one. (kind of like the old Cobra 19s colored light show but the size of a normal S - reading meter. Pretty cool.
Actually "Live Free or Die Hard" pays pretty good tribute to CB and radio. The Icom on 66.6 mhz wasn't supposed to be a CB...it was supposed to be a cop radio, since he was in a cop car at the time. That's not too far of a stretch since CHP around here operates *fairly* close to that freq (*fairly* is used VERY liberally). He tuned it to 66.6 because the hacker he wanted to communicate with used that freq to talk to his buddies.
The one thing that was funny was when they talked about CB...the hacker says, "when all computer systems and power are down, CB will be the last thing working...." Pretty funny, but sorta true if you broaden it to CB and Ham.
I also saw Transformers, which has several radio hobby related references. Folks, I think the writing is on the wall...CB & Ham are about to get a big influx of fans!
The one thing that was funny was when they talked about CB...the hacker says, "when all computer systems and power are down, CB will be the last thing working...." Pretty funny, but sorta true if you broaden it to CB and Ham.
I also saw Transformers, which has several radio hobby related references. Folks, I think the writing is on the wall...CB & Ham are about to get a big influx of fans!
I think the writing is on the wall...CB & Ham are about to get a big influx of fans!
Hmmmmmm :? suppose we could bring back Burt , Jackie and Sally while there at it ......not , Jackie's dead and the others look like walking zombies. breaker breaker !!
Hmmmmmm :? suppose we could bring back Burt , Jackie and Sally while there at it ......not , Jackie's dead and the others look like walking zombies. breaker breaker !!