Dick Van Dyke, Barry Goldwater, Arthur Godfrey and many others extol the virtues of amateur “ham” radio in this vintage film. I converted this old and somewhat damaged 16mm film to video tape many many years ago when the technology to do that was rather archaic. I have now converted those old video reels to digital movies. Not the best quality but still quite amusing. note: I have corrected the title here on youtube. this is “The World of Amateur Radio” NOT “The Ham’s Wide World” as I had originally posted. I do have the “Ham’s Wide World” also uploaded here.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
the good old days when ham radio was a scumbag free zone ……..
This is great, thank you
73
mike
Thank you very much for sharing this vintage film. 73. KC, DV1KC.
To all asking about “better transfers.” They exist – mostly done by me in 1985 on an RCA Film Chain – but these are the property of the ARRL even though they are in my possession. I have them on 3/4″ U-Matic and Betacam SP but do not at present have video tape players for either format on my premises. However, Dave Bell, W6AQ, has done a compilation DVD of all of his ham radio films which he gave the ARRL. Included is an introduction to each show by Dave himself ARRL may have it out in 2012
fantastic…
Awesome! Thanks for posting and sharing
Love it!!!
Hams were still using phone patch back then, LOL. Now everyone uses cell phones…
A bit dated but AWESOME. I wish amateur radio can be like this today. Check out our YouTube site for KC2YYL.
Life before cellphones!
A wonderful video – thanks so much for posting it! Craig VK3CRG Melbourne, Australia
Great video we have come a long way can’t wait till tomorrow. K2TOD 73’S
This is excellent! Seeing JY1 King Hussein of Jordan reminds me of working him in the 70s from K1KMV University of Rhode Island Radio Club. I worked him on 15 CW running a kilowatt into a 3 element beam at 100 feet, needless to say I had a very strong signal into Jordan. When JY1 responded to me I mistakenly asked him what the rest of his call sign was. He replied my call sign is JY1 and name is Hussein, I knew right away who it was… 3 weeks later we had a nice QSL card from him!
24:40 – He predicted that pretty well 🙂
Great video but I wish you had left it in its original format without all the “vintage” flicker added to it.
@wa6dij That is not “added flicker”. That in genuine, off the vintage 16mm projector flicker as actually projected and recorded by my video tape camera many years ago. Nothing has been added “for effect” to this post. That’s how it actually looks when projected from the original film on a projector. The flicker is slightly more pronounced because a video camera doesn’t react like the human eye to the frame rate (the eye “fills in” the flicker somewhat the video camera doesn’t.)
Oh, sorry but I have used video applications where you can add flicker like that so based on the age of the footage I assume it had been added. Thanks for sharing the film with all of us.
Fantastic !! Thank you for posting this
de ka3fad
Very cool video, Thanks for posting!!!
thanks a bunch for uploading this, was very nice to see.
break? are these amateur operators or cb’ers
Why was the Somolian in this video talking on his taxi radio?
I love amateur radio.I am BH4RUM.
as relevant today as it was then well done for preserving and puting it here for us to see.
It is activity of the nostalgic ham radio of the 1970s.
Although it did not QSO in Mr. K7UGA Goldwater, KC4USN and JY1 King Hussein are QSO(ing) those days.
a collins line, SWAN yaesuFT101, TRIO[kenwood]TS520, etc. are seen and a walkie-talkie is also nostalgic.
It is the wonderful transfer which exceeded the border, a race, and thought to ham radio.