People keep telling me to watch "Twister", but it's never on TV or free streaming. But, I'm too cheap to "rent" it on Amazon Prime for $3.79. However, it was $2.99 at the local Goodwill. 🤔
Continuity error in the cow scene. One second they're driving down a dirt road, then you see a flash of a vehicle passing them.. and it's obvious they're on a two lane road, maybe a freeway. #twister#movie
@ai6yr There's actually a tornado movie with WORSE acting and SFX (as well as some awful safety advice, and more): The Night of the Twisters.
It's also a case of "the movie of the book, and the movie really sucked," because the book was essentially a roman a clef of a real event but just with fictional characters. The movie was entirely fictionalized and... suffered for it, a lot
@ai6yr They basically ground up giant chunks of ice and launched them from a tractor trailer lol. Great tidbit here on it from the making of doc: https://youtu.be/anUmbKa6mhk?t=1001
LOL, realized this in the morning. The "bad guy" storm chasers, alas, were killed by a ham radio tower. Ham radio tower safety is very, very important. Amerite AME25 tower section. #Twister
At least one real ham radio operator was technical advisor on this, KC5TQI, Martin Lisius: "Martin Lisius, "...cinematographer, producer, director and founder of Prairie Pictures and StormStock, a 25-year old stock footage brand specializing in weather.... Martin produced several television programs relating to severe weather including "Chasing the Wind" (1991) and "The Chasers of Tornado Alley" (1995). He co-produced “StormWatch” for the National Weather Service... Martin worked as a technical advisor on the 1996 Warner Bros. blockbuster movie "Twister" and appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show with the cast and crew" https://speakerpedia.com/speakers/martin-lisius
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This scene has one of the great lines of all time:
“this is a lot of beef, Meg. Where’d you get all this beef?”
Meg: Did ya see my cows out front?
“No.”
Meg: Ohh!
@trumpresistance NMO mount is what is used, standard on law enforcement and fire vehicles in this part of California (and elsewhere). It provides far better ground plane contact with the vehicle, and is weather proof (if installed correctly), with the coax routed internally under the headliner. It's also interchangeable: there are NMO antennas for every band, allowing for mix-match antenna installations. It solves the where-to-I-run-the-coax issue that magmounts cause, as well, and don't have the paint scratching/antennas falling off issue of magmount.
@trumpresistance The biggest downside to NMO is it requires a special NMO mount hole saw and you have to put a (large) hole in your vehicle in the right place. That tends to be an issue for hams who lease their vehicle, or who frequently change what vehicle they are driving.
@trumpresistance I did my own install on my own vehicle, and later 8 others. It's not too hard, but it requires getting over the mental block of "drilling large hole in vehicle" LOL.
@donkeyherder 🤔 I'm pretty sure you spent a lot more time making out as a teenager than I did... (LOL... absolutely sure, I spent WAY too much time in my parents basement with computers instead, ha ha).
Only instead of computers, which weren't widely available then, I was desoldering parts from unrepairable TVs found behind repair shops. Then breadboarding them to make the projects in Popular Electronics.
@ai6yr@BakerRL75@WXFanatic if you can't handle Twister, you're going to hate my current favorite pirate fantasy sitcom romance show "Our Flag Means Death" 😅 and you probably HATE Star Trek Lower Decks which I think might be my favorite Star Trek series (which is saying a lot considering I grew up on TNG, DS9, and VOY).
@k0in@BakerRL75@WXFanatic Well, really it's a hybrid, only the output stages are tubes (3 of them). The TS-520 was actually marketed as mobile radios for installation in your vehicle. I do think you'd need a Buick the size of Manhattan to fit it under the dash, however.
@k0in@BakerRL75@WXFanatic I have a few tube rigs... basically, tune for noise on the "DRIVE" control (matches the capacitance to the antenna system), and the tune to maximize power out on a meter. Might have to go back and forth if you're not good at hearing the noise (more noise = better tuned to the antenna).
@ai6yr@BakerRL75@WXFanatic
Yeah, my dad had an HW-101, and my first HF rig was a Swan 500 I picked up at a hamfest. Never did get too much out of it, which was probably a good thing, since I lived in an apartment at the time.
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