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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: glimmer twin on March 19, 2014, 1422 UTC

Title: "The Radio Ham" Hancocks half hour BBC show from 1950's
Post by: glimmer twin on March 19, 2014, 1422 UTC

Lately I have been really into British sitcoms most of which are entirely new to me (Dads Army is my favorite) & I ran across this one in which Tony Hancock, a very well known comedian of the time in the UK portrays an amateur operator with an impressive setup in his home. He's a little confused about frequencies/wavelengths though, at 2:39 he states that he is on "10.4 meters...250 megacycles per second".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg03Dm4y1ao

Title: Re: "The Radio Ham" Hancocks half hour BBC show from 1950's
Post by: Pigmeat on March 19, 2014, 2026 UTC

I haven't seen that one, but "Dad's Army" was a favorite when I was in my early teens.