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Greetings! Now that we have retired all the castaways back to Gilligan's
Island; how about the shortwave radio on one of the Andy Griffith shows.
Remember the one with the Gypsies who were listening to shortwave to make long
term forcasts on the weather? I can't remember if it was a Hallicrafters or a
Hamerland . I believe it was a Hallicrafters.
It is always fun to look at the radios they had in the office as well. I seem
to remember old Colins stuff.
Just some more useless food for fodder. Have a great weekend! Jon.

Jon Lippert wrote:

Greetings! Now that we have retired all the castaways back to Gilligan's
Island; how about the shortwave radio on one of the Andy Griffith shows.
Remember the one with the Gypsies who were listening to shortwave to make long
term forcasts on the weather? I can't remember if it was a Hallicrafters or a
Hamerland . I believe it was a Hallicrafters.
It is always fun to look at the radios they had in the office as well. I seem
to remember old Colins stuff.
Just some more useless food for fodder. Have a great weekend! Jon.

In the office (jail), I believe there was an Eico transmitter on the desk.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

It looked like a Hallicrafter SX-110.
"Jon Lippert" wrote in message
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Greetings! Now that we have retired all the castaways back to Gilligan's
Island; how about the shortwave radio on one of the Andy Griffith shows.
Remember the one with the Gypsies who were listening to shortwave to make
long
term forcasts on the weather? I can't remember if it was a Hallicrafters
or a
Hamerland . I believe it was a Hallicrafters.
It is always fun to look at the radios they had in the office as well. I
seem
to remember old Colins stuff.
Just some more useless food for fodder. Have a great weekend! Jon.

Alright, who can answer this one: what was the radio that Herman Munster was
using during the episode where he became a Ham? (Don't expect me to answer
this because I'm not sure!)


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pulse wrote:

Alright, who can answer this one: what was the radio that Herman Munster was
using during the episode where he became a Ham? (Don't expect me to answer
this because I'm not sure!)

According to this apparently it was homebrew. The site also gives his callsign,
and shows a copy of his QSL card.

http://www.uslink.net/~hepcats/w6xrl4.html

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"Jon Lippert" wrote in message
...
Greetings! Now that we have retired all the castaways back to Gilligan's
Island; how about the shortwave radio on one of the Andy Griffith shows.
Remember the one with the Gypsies who were listening to shortwave to make
long
term forcasts on the weather? I can't remember if it was a Hallicrafters
or a
Hamerland . I believe it was a Hallicrafters.
It is always fun to look at the radios they had in the office as well. I
seem
to remember old Colins stuff.
Just some more useless food for fodder. Have a great weekend! Jon.

Either an SX-110 or SX-111 Neither was battery operable as the show
portrayed it to be..
The jail transmitter was an Eico 720 ( CW only) that had a mic plugged into
the key jack. Sitting atop the 720 was an Eico CB transceiver. Prior to that
there was a Motorola rig in the jail.

Dale W4OP

Greetings! Now that we have retired all the castaways back to Gilligan's
Island; how about the shortwave radio on one of the A

"Reality" and "Gilligan's Island" in the same sentence.

how about the shortwave radio on one of the Andy Griffith shows.

The ham radio on "The Munsters" was definitely shortwave as Herman was talking
to people in other countries on it, including someone from Australia, halfway
around the world.

Stereophile22 wrote:

The thing is their was kids walkie talkies transmitting on the same
frequency
as the ham radio in this episode.

Was this a goof in the erpisode, or did some kids walkie talkies
actually use
certain ham radio frequencies back in the 60's (although at much lower
power,
of course).

The oldest kids walkie talkies that I remember used 49 MHz.


Comedy television aside, there is an off possibility that Herman's ham
equipment could have communicated with kid's walkie talkies. If he had old
ham gear, it may have had the 11m ham band (part of which became the 11m
Citizens Band) Kid's walkie talkies of that era operated mostly on 27.125
MHz (CB channel 14). There were some fancier ones (and much higher cost)
that had up to three channels. These almost always ended up being channels
9, 11, & 14. Some Japanese talkies came stock with channel 9 crystals.. and
kids used to catch some hell in the early 70's because channel 9 is an
emergency traffic channel.

Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

Stereophile22 wrote:

The thing is their was kids walkie talkies transmitting on the same
frequency
as the ham radio in this episode.

Was this a goof in the erpisode, or did some kids walkie talkies
actually use
certain ham radio frequencies back in the 60's (although at much lower
power,
of course).

The oldest kids walkie talkies that I remember used 49 MHz.

Comedy television aside, there is an off possibility that Herman's ham
equipment could have communicated with kid's walkie talkies. If he had old
ham gear, it may have had the 11m ham band (part of which became the 11m
Citizens Band) Kid's walkie talkies of that era operated mostly on 27.125
MHz (CB channel 14). There were some fancier ones (and much higher cost)
that had up to three channels. These almost always ended up being channels
9, 11, & 14. Some Japanese talkies came stock with channel 9 crystals.. and
kids used to catch some hell in the early 70's because channel 9 is an
emergency traffic channel.

Remember... it was a TV show... it doesn't have to have a basis in reality.

Repeat that 20 times and you'll be OK.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

Stereophile22 wrote:

The thing is their was kids walkie talkies transmitting on the same
frequency
as the ham radio in this episode.

Was this a goof in the erpisode, or did some kids walkie talkies
actually use
certain ham radio frequencies back in the 60's (although at much
lower
power,
of course).

The oldest kids walkie talkies that I remember used 49 MHz.

Comedy television aside, there is an off possibility that Herman's ham
equipment could have communicated with kid's walkie talkies. If he had
old
ham gear, it may have had the 11m ham band (part of which became the 11m
Citizens Band) Kid's walkie talkies of that era operated mostly on
27.125
MHz (CB channel 14). There were some fancier ones (and much higher cost)
that had up to three channels. These almost always ended up being
channels
9, 11, & 14. Some Japanese talkies came stock with channel 9 crystals..
and
kids used to catch some hell in the early 70's because channel 9 is an
emergency traffic channel.

Remember... it was a TV show... it doesn't have to have a basis in
reality.

Repeat that 20 times and you'll be OK.

Take note, Steve, of the first three words in my above paragraph. I made the
comment that in spite of the fact that it was purely an entertainment show,
and not based on fact, that a ham rig made previous to the time the Munsters
was running could indeed have communicated with a kid's walkie talkie. I
used to have such a rig.

Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Brenda Ann Dyer wrote:

Stereophile22 wrote:

The thing is their was kids walkie talkies transmitting on the same
frequency
as the ham radio in this episode.

Was this a goof in the erpisode, or did some kids walkie talkies
actually use
certain ham radio frequencies back in the 60's (although at much
lower
power,
of course).

The oldest kids walkie talkies that I remember used 49 MHz.

Comedy television aside, there is an off possibility that Herman's ham
equipment could have communicated with kid's walkie talkies. If he had
old
ham gear, it may have had the 11m ham band (part of which became the 11m
Citizens Band) Kid's walkie talkies of that era operated mostly on
27.125
MHz (CB channel 14). There were some fancier ones (and much higher cost)
that had up to three channels. These almost always ended up being
channels
9, 11, & 14. Some Japanese talkies came stock with channel 9 crystals..
and
kids used to catch some hell in the early 70's because channel 9 is an
emergency traffic channel.

Remember... it was a TV show... it doesn't have to have a basis in
reality.

Repeat that 20 times and you'll be OK.

Take note, Steve, of the first three words in my above paragraph. I made the
comment that in spite of the fact that it was purely an entertainment show,
and not based on fact, that a ham rig made previous to the time the Munsters
was running could indeed have communicated with a kid's walkie talkie. I
used to have such a rig.

Me too! But my comment still stands as fact.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"Brenda Ann Dyer" ) writes:

Take note, Steve, of the first three words in my above paragraph. I made the
comment that in spite of the fact that it was purely an entertainment show,
and not based on fact, that a ham rig made previous to the time the Munsters
was running could indeed have communicated with a kid's walkie talkie. I
used to have such a rig.




But I didn't think the question was about whether it was technically possible.
One doesn't really need an explanation of how a ham might have CB equipment.

But it wouldn't have been legal, as you know. If he put his ham rig on CB,
then he's breaking the law (because it's not type approved, because it has
higher power, because it might be VFO controlled).

There is no reason how he could communicate with license free walkie talkies,
except if there was an emergency.

Michael