"Wish Me Luck"

[Steve W8TOW]

Found a pretty good series on Netflix last week called "Wish Me Luck".
It is a 3 season series from 1989 or so about British women in WWII serving as
spies in France. Great "wireless" shots and pretty cool shots of AR88's and HRO's!

73
8TOW

[W3GMS]

Hi Steve,

Sounds like an interesting series.  I think the designation for the military HRO was the HRO-M.  I have one downstairs and it plays very well. 

73,
Joe, W3GMS   

[Mike/W8BAC]

It is off topic but related, In the recent remake of "Tinker Taylor Solder Spy" they show several long, sweeping shots of MI6's signals intercept room. I counted 7 Racal RA17's in they're cabinets. I own a 17 without a cabinet. I can only wish. Hi Steve!

Mike

[KA2DZT]

I have a HRO-M with all nine coil set.  They all have matching serial numbers along with the receiver.  I use the HRO as one of my main station receivers.

Fred

[W9GT]

Sounds interesting Steve.   We have watched a couple of old "Hazel" episodes on our local "Antenna TV" channel that plays 50s-70s reruns.  These two episodes (perhaps there were others) had a very strong amateur radio theme and were actually quite fun to watch.  One episode involved a faulty heating pad interfering with George Baxter's (Hazel's boss) TV and of course, he blamed a kid down the street who was a ham.  He was later proven wrong and everyone lived happily ever after, including the ham kid who was presented with a world map clock by George Baxter, as a gesture of good will.

There were probably several shows back in those days with similar themes.  I even remember a "Leave it to Beaver" episode where Wally and Eddie had a pair of surplus walkie talikies that they talked to each other on and, I believe, one show that involved Beaver working on a crystal set.

73,  Jack, W9GT