[Uram-rejections] Ham radio in Netflix’s Stranger Things - So many mistakes!

Wed Jul 24 12:18:19 BST 2019

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> On 17/07/2019 06:44, Stephen Cole wrote:
> 
> > So, the kids in Stranger Things have used walkie-talkies since season 1,
> > and there’s always been incongruities in their depiction, most notably
> > their near-infinite battery life, use with antenna unextended (I bought a
> > set of these on eBay following that series, the fully-extended antenna is
> > about 7 foot long!), and comms being full-duplex rather than simplex.
> 
> Batteries are like ammunition. They never run out until it is needed for 
> the plot.
> The same with fuel, lighting and toilet trips.
> 
> > Season 3, however, goes absolutely mental. Dustin, probably the nerdiest
> > kid in the gang, comes back from nerd summer camp with a hand-built ham
> > radio which he proceeds to cart to the top of the highest hill in town to
> > establish a station to communicate with his new girlfriend who lives in
> > Utah (Dustin and his gang live in Indiana, 1500 miles away). The power
> > source seems to be a small SLA battery (I’m presuming such things were
> > available in 1985 but not this compact) but the maddest thing is the
> > antenna they build; a 7 or 8 element VHF-sized beam (it’s established later
> > in the series that it’s a HF radio when Dustin gives a 20m frequency to QSY
> > to (which the gang’s 27mhz CB handies erroneously operate on...)) with all
> > manner of conductive tat stuck to it, including a stripped brolly and a
> > Slinky... This is built in the first or second episode of the show and
> > attempted communications with Utah fail, no contact is made
> > (unsurprisingly... LOL). This station is not visited or mentioned again
> > until the kids return to it at the end of the season to manage comms
> > between the team battling Russians at the secret base beneath the mall and
> > the team battling the monster on the surface, but when we see the kids
> > return to it, days after setting it up in storyline, the radio (which has
> > no top case to protect it from the elements!!) is still on the floor,
> > powered up, ready to use! This made me really twitchy, I get that it’s
> > required to suspend disbelief when watching a monster-based horror-comedy
> > but, Christ!, I couldn’t ignore that!
> > 
> > There’s a lot more radio wrongness in the show, give it a watch (it’s a
> > great show!) and spot all the foul-ups. See if it drives you loopy, too.
> 
> So you are OK with psychokinesis, alternate dimensions, tentacled 
> monsters. inter-dimensional portals and miscellaneous spooky stuff but 
> your limit when it comes to willful suspension of disbelief is battery 
> life and channel use?
> 
> Never watch "Frequency" :-)
> 
> Andy
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