Re: [amsat-bb] Saturday Night at the Movies

[Anthony Monteiro <aa2tx@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:42 PM 3/14/03 -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
>   See how many movies/TV
> > shows you can think of that make reference to ham
> > radio.  Here is my list so far:
> >
> > 1. Frequency
> > 2. High Frequency-see a kid on 1 land work HB on 2 mhz
> > at the middle of the afternoon.  Uses Icom Equipment
> > 3. Phenomenom-believe they are using Kenwood TS940
> > 4. Contact
> > 5. The Munsters-herman gets a ham radio with a really
> > big tube in it. Sings over the air
> > 6. The Simpsons-in one episode, we see that one of
> > Marge's sisters is a ham radio operator.  It is her
> > only form of social contact (that hits close to home)
> >
> > Any others you can think of?
>
>Saturday Night Live.  In one of the earlier seasons, during a 
>point/counter-point
>spoof of their "Weekend News Update."  It's in the third paragraph.

The 4/22/97 episode of "Frasier" was titled "Ham Radio"
but alas it was not about REAL ham radio.

Tony AA2TX

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