The commercial goes on to say that men are 4 times more likely to be struck
by lightning than women. What it doesn't say is that men are usually out in
the rain about 4x as much as women, i.e. most outdoor workers are men. It
IS a commercial!
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Subject: Re: [Swlfest] Mountain Dew commercial w/Drake & Hammarlund
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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