Morse Code on Upcoming X-Files Episode: - Updated - Again!
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Morse Code to be Featured on Upcoming X-Files Episode:
Rob, WA6CW, of Hollywood, California, served as a technical adviser to The
X-Files star Robert Patrick for an upcoming episode.
Patrick's character,
John Doggett, was in a hospital bed, paralyzed, and was required to send a
Morse code message by tapping his index finger.
WA6CW (who also works as an
actor) taught Patrick how to tap out the message at about 5 WPM. "He was a
fast learner," Rob commented.
No word on what the message was, but it
might be, "The truth is out there."
The episode, entitled "4-D," is
scheduled with a tentative airdate now set for *9* December 2001 on the Fox TV Network.
Check the X Files web site for air date schedule for episode titled 4-D."
The latest airdates are available on the official X Files web site. The airdate of specific episodes varies and has with this one.
Source:
The ARRL Letter
Vol. 20, No. 44
November 2, 2001
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by KQ6XA on November 6, 2001
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Is it just me, or do other hams always get asked by their non-ham friends to decipher "movie" morse... that turns out to be jibberish or unrelated to the plot?
Nice to see some real morse being used again in TV for realism.
It harkens back to the earlier days of motion pictures when they used real morse because a larger percentage of the populace were able to copy back then. In many productions the lazy use of canned arbitrary "stock" sound of CW became widely used starting in the 1970s and has continued until present day. Thanks.
Bonnie KQ6XA
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by K8ZW on November 6, 2001
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Next time you catch the movie: "Midway", the Japanese are sending perfect text in english and it matches the plot to a tee!
73-K8ZW
didididadidah
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by M0CQG on November 7, 2001
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Here in the UK we had a series of police dramas about a character called "Inspector Morse". The haunting theme tune had a string part which, if you decipher it, is quietly playing "MORSE" in Morse code. Surprisingly, very few people ever made the connection between the main character's name and the fact that the theme tune actually contained Morse code...
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by VR2BG on November 7, 2001
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M0CQG is right - I've watched Inspector Morse for yonks & I was disappointed with myself (as a keen CW op) not to have noticed the string section sending his name!
One of the HK TV stations for at least the past 15 years has "todays news" in CW blaring at the beginning. But otherwise, as KQ6XA mentioned, what CW you hear elsewhere might sound cool to the layman, but is rubbish to those who understand. Like the B-52 song "Planet Claire".
Also equally cool to the layman but a right laugh for us is when you baudot RTTY during high tech scenes in a movie or TV show... computers talking to each other using a five-bit non-error correcting code.
Or ham equipment used as props... what was it, a TS-940 & SM-230 in the back of a duece-and-a-half in the original Die Hard movie that took the nasty guys to the airport for their getaway? No mains power nor antenna to be seen.
My favorite, however, has to be the old Saturday Night Live show in the States, back when all the original Not Ready For Prime Time crowd was still there (Belushi, Akroyd, etc). News Update & Point-Counterpoint, with Jane Curtain & Dan Akroyd going at each other. "You jump from bed to bed with the frequency of a cheap ham radio" was the line, I think it was, when whatever it was that they were debating turned into a slanging match between the two about anything but the subject of the debate. Great stuff!
73, BV/VR2BrettGraham
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by KA4KOE on November 9, 2001
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Might I add the movie Fantastic Voyage? This is the film where doctors injected a miniaturized submarine into a guy so they could vaporize a cerebral blood clot. The radio op is sending correct morse with a Vibroplex. Now, that's cool.
Philip
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by WA7KPK on November 10, 2001
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The best story of this type I remember hearing was actually a true-life one. The North Vietnamese (I believe) were showing off some American prisoners and doing the usual propaganda spiel about how well they were being treated, but if you watched one of the POWs carefully, he was blinking out the word TORTURE in Morse code.
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by WA4UNS on November 12, 2001
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Sorry to hear a bunch of you missed the morse in Morse. I caught it almost immediately when it appeared here in the states. I will admit... it was nicely mixed in.
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by WT3F on November 15, 2001
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Another bad example of the use of morse.
The Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman movie, Enemy of the State. At several points in the movie they show what is supposed to be a spy satellite that is taking real-time images, that zoom in on their target. Whenever they show the satellite, it's calling CQ over and over.
I about fell off my chair laughing at that one, a imaging satellite calling CQ, pa-leeze
Cy Moler
WT3F
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by N6TGK on November 27, 2001
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Actually, Enemy of the State didn't have Denzel Washington in it. It was Will Smith.
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by GU0CGL on November 28, 2001
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On the subject of Inspector Morse, did you know that Barrington Pheloung's incidental music at some point spelt out in morse the name of the murderer in each episode?!!
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by VR2BG on November 28, 2001
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GU0CGL: Cheers, mate. Will be listening with keen interest next time we get Morse reruns out here!
73, VR2BrettGraham
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by AH6RH on November 29, 2001
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If you're interested in other occurences of morse
code in the movies, TV shows, etc, see:
http://railwayop.tripod.ca/Movies/movies.html
Robbie does a good job keeping up with the materials!
Ron Hashiro, AH6RH
Honolulu, HI
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