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- From: gavron@spades.aces.com (Ehud Gavron 602-570-2000 x. 2546)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Radios in Die Hard
- Message-ID: <telecom12.701.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 16:16:00 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 701, Message 9 of 10
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- In article <telecom12.691.9@eecs.nwu.edu>, johng@comm.mot.com (John
- Gilbert) writes:
-
- > My favorites from the Die Hard movies were:
-
- > In the first movie where the portable two-way radios talk to the bad
- > guys inside the building, but when taken to the roof talk to the
- > police on the same frequency. (These are those fancy full-duplex
- > two-way radios). Not a very good choice of frequencies by the bad
- > guys, or very wise placement of voting receivers by the police.
-
- The radios in mention are Kenwood TH45AT 70cm (400MHz band) transceiv-
- ers, which most amateur radio operators (hamsters) are familiar with.
- Police bands exist in the 70cm band and also in the 2m band (150MHz)
- as well as others.
-
- I searched through my frequency directory and cannot locate which
- bands the FCC allocates for Bad Guys (tm). Therefore using Bad Guys
- Logic (tm) I assume they can use any band as it becomes convenient.
-
- Never forget though -- the police accused our hero of being on CB
- Channel 9. No respectable ham radio does CB*, and it is no crime to
- blabber on channel 9 yelling for help.
-
-
- Ehud Gavron (EG76) gavron@vesta.sunquest.com
-