The World of Amateur Radio-Amateur Radio Vintage Film

[talknottome]

as relevant today as it was then well done for preserving and puting it here for us to see.

[willbertao]

I love amateur radio.I am BH4RUM.

[k3rojal]

Why was the Somolian in this video talking on his taxi radio?

[barett1962]

break? are these amateur operators or cb'ers

[Romulustj]

thanks a bunch for uploading this, was very nice to see.

[radionerd100]

Very cool video, Thanks for posting!!!

[sparky42]

Fantastic !! Thank you for posting this

de ka3fad

[wa6dij]

Oh, sorry but I have used video applications where you can add flicker like that so based on the age of the footage I assume it had been added. Thanks for sharing the film with all of us.

[wa6dij]

Great video but I wish you had left it in its original format without all the "vintage" flicker added to it.

[timinbovey]

@wa6dij That is not "added flicker". That in genuine, off the vintage 16mm projector flicker as actually projected and recorded by my video tape camera many years ago. Nothing has been added "for effect" to this post. That's how it actually looks when projected from the original film on a projector. The flicker is slightly more pronounced because a video camera doesn't react like the human eye to the frame rate (the eye "fills in" the flicker somewhat the video camera doesn't.)

[DoubleM55]

24:40 - He predicted that pretty well :)

[KQ1X]

This is excellent! Seeing JY1 King Hussein of Jordan reminds me of working him in the 70s from K1KMV University of Rhode Island Radio Club. I worked him on 15 CW running a kilowatt into a 3 element beam at 100 feet, needless to say I had a very strong signal into Jordan. When JY1 responded to me I mistakenly asked him what the rest of his call sign was. He replied my call sign is JY1 and name is Hussein, I knew right away who it was... 3 weeks later we had a nice QSL card from him!

[K2TOD]

Great video we have come a long way can't wait till tomorrow. K2TOD 73'S

[vk3crg]

A wonderful video - thanks so much for posting it! Craig VK3CRG Melbourne, Australia

[K7AGE]

Life before cellphones!

[KC2YYL]

A bit dated but AWESOME. I wish amateur radio can be like this today. Check out our YouTube site for KC2YYL.

[TheZeke1974]

Hams were still using phone patch back then, LOL. Now everyone uses cell phones...

[TheZeke1974]

Love it!!!

[ScottF250]

Awesome! Thanks for posting and sharing

[VictoreCelia]

fantastic...



[newsmaninla]

To all asking about "better transfers." They exist - mostly done by me in 1985 on an RCA Film Chain - but these are the property of the ARRL even though they are in my possession. I have them on 3/4" U-Matic and Betacam SP but do not at present have video tape players for either format on my premises. However, Dave Bell, W6AQ, has done a compilation DVD of all of his ham radio films which he gave the ARRL. Included is an introduction to each show by Dave himself ARRL may have it out in 2012

[cmaligs]

Thank you very much for sharing this vintage film. 73. KC, DV1KC.

[mikeybugguns]

This is great, thank you

73

mike

[A5593GM4DHJ]

the good old days when ham radio was a scumbag free zone ........

[agile16mm]

Might be worth digging out the film to try a better transfer.

[whiskeysierra4echo]

Surely the ARRL has a good copy of this somewhere.

[Guairdean]

Where can I download a copy of this video? I'd like to use it for Field Day and JOTA.

[1SoundBlaster]

Its good to watch makes you realize just how much thigs have moved on

[newsmaninla]

We shot the show in 1977 and 1978. It was released in late 1978 as a part of an ARRL growth in Amateur Radio campaign. It was the second film for the ARRL that I worked on that was directed by Dave Bell, W6AQ. It was also the last ham radio show shot on 16mm film. . When I first noticed the fade to magenta I transferred it to videotape so a far better archive copy exists about a foot to my right on Betacam SP video. So it survives.

[DDLShare]

@newsmaninla Thanks for the info.. late 1978.. I'm only 11 month old.. hehe

[NW7US]

Very interesting to see this promotional video. So many things have changed, yet so much has stayed the same, since those days.

[N4NR]

Based on the vintage of equipment, cars on road, AMSAT OSCAR 8, age of celebrities, etc etc, looks like it was produced around 1980 ... The WD6FFV emergency occurred in April 1979.

[DDLShare]

@N4NR WD6FFV is really a hero.. his mom said.. "That antenna will still standing there"..

[DDLShare]

What year of this film? looks really old.. 1930? it have color.... like the vibroplex..

[9m2zak]

nice..