[KE9V] Frequency: TV Review
 

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Frequency: TV Review

Posted: 08 Oct 2016 08:32 AM PDT
https://ke9v.net/2016/10/08/frequency-tv-review/


I watched the premiere of the new TV series, Frequency, the reconstituted
version of the 2000 film by the same name.

In the original movie, communication across time was facilitated by ham
radio and a rare occurrence of the Aurora Borealis. In the new series, RF
energy manages to travel thru time thanks to a lightning strike.
Airs Wednesdays at 9pm (Eastern) on the CW Netwoork

Suspension of reality is a necessary element to enjoying this program, and
if you were hoping this was going to be a television show about ham radio
you will be disappointed.

I’ve already seen comments across hamdom about rules violations, the use of
VHF/UHF Yagi’s with an HF transceiver, and well, you get the picture.Â*Some
hams were hoping this would be a TV show about them.

It’s not. Get over it.

In the new series a young woman’s father was an undercover cop killed
twenty years earlier. The young woman, now a detective herself, manages to
warn her dad of the impending peril via the old ham radio set that has
remained in the garage all these years.

With this knowledge from the future, he manages to avoid that incident but
disturbing the fabric of time always yields unintended consequences and as
her father saved his own life in 1996, his daughters life suddenly changes
in 2016.

The weekly program is apparently going to continue as a cat and mouse game
thru time permitting the father/daughter crime fighting duo to chase
criminals using past and future knowledge as their special edge in the
process.

I had low hopes for this series but it turned out that I enjoyed the first
episode and now that I see where they’re going, It might work and even
survive a season or two. Or it might not. Who knows?

I’d need a QSO with someone from 2018 to know for certain but Im not
leaving the feed-line connected during a thunderstorm just to find out.