As a Hammarlund and Drake fan, I have "freeze-framed" it to take a closer look
at the rigs and I even typed up a message to send out on the list, but I did it
just before the Fest and I figured no one would see it because everyone (except
me :-( would be going to the Fest.
Here is what I typed:
There is a Diet Mountain Dew commercial where it is thundering and lighting.
All of the scenes take place outside, in the rain and thunder and lightning.
There are two women fencing, a women sitting in front of a table with radios on
it and a tower behind (outside, in the rain) and two women walking about on
tall, aluminum stilts.
A man holding a can of Diet Mountain Dew asked the first two women, What are
you doing?
They reply, Fencing.
Then he asks the woman at the table of radios the same question.
She says, Playing with my ham radios. If you freeze-frame it, you can see
that on the left side of the table, one of the receivers is a Hammarlund HQ-170
or HQ-180 and the woman is sitting in front of it, so you can't tell which for
sure. On top of it is a radio in the Drake R-4 family. You might think it
would be a Drake transmitter (T-4X, T4XB, etc.) to go with the receiver, but on
the table beside the Hammarlund is a Drake MS-4 speaker. There is something
on top of the MS-4 and beside the MS-4 are some radios or maybe test equipment.
They might be homebrew, but I didn't recognize them. In front of the setup is
a Shure 444 microphone. I didn't see a code key, so obviously she is an
"appliance operator." :-)
Remember, this is outside. Behind the radio table is a tower (probably 10
high) and around the radio table are other antennas and things as might be put
there by someone who wants a "radio look" more than something appropriate (this
IS TV and this IS a commercial.) He asks her, Arent you afraid of being
struck by lightning. As he says this, HE is struck by lightning.
The commercial continues in this strange way to try to get people to drink
Mountain Dew.
But I love to see shortwave radios on TV, especially ones that I own.
The key to watch for if it is coming on is two women fencing in the rain,
thunder and lightning.
I didn't know it was on YouTube, but it has been shown several times during
the TV Show, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles."
73,
Curt W4CP
Curt Phillips, CEM CMVP
W4CP ex-KD4YU; WB4LHI
ARRL Life; QCWA; SKCC; NASWA
Tar Heel Scanner/SWL Group
Drake R8A; R4B/FS4-T4XB, HQ-180C
R-390A, Sony 2010; 7600GR; E1
Kenwood TS-940SAT
Raleigh, NC
curt<at>nerdster.net
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just in case you have not seen the Diet Mountain Dew "Lightening Ad" with
the ham radio operator in the thunder storm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MieEfkwICB8 Can anyone identify
the equipment in use? The receiver on the left looks like Hamarlund HQ-170 or
180 but the rest ?? Kudos to whomever gets it. CRAIG N3TPM
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