E1442: ICOM in Ultraman Arc Episode 10

sign up today and thank you for the support. Ultraman Arc Episode ten is out and icon is prominently displayed in multiple parts of that show. But we're gonna take a look at it right now. I made a video about an announcement that this episode was coming. It was originally called to a Distant You, to a Distant You, but it's actually called to a Distant Friend. I don't know why they changed. The article said it was one

name is the other name? Who cares? I don't know, But okay, so let's take a look at this real quick, because there's a lot of icon parts in it. This is the opening scene right here, and you can see right now it's very up front and in your face, amateur radios. That's wonder if they put that book right there, A history of amazing devices. Obviously this Japanese underneath it, so a history of amazing devices that might actually be

a fun read. I'd have to go look it up and see if that's a real book right here, but you can see this and if you look on the screen behind him right there, it's blurred in that shot right there, that's actually FT eight run in. It's shown three or four times throughout this episode when he's at his desk there. That's an icy ninety seven hundred on

the right. You can tell because it looks like a seventy three hundred, but it's got the one forty five megahertz band on the top and the four thirty two megahertz band on the bottom. So he's on one forty five dot four eight dot nine right now, and he's talking on what to me sounds like an FM signal, but realistically it's probably sideband. I don't know, tell me what you think. It sounds like he's talking to somebody on another planet, so it's probably not FM, but it's

it'slack get rip. This is JP one five one four Juliet Panther one five one four JP one five one four is not a proper amateur radio call sign. They use it for the show. That's fine, it's not a big deal. They've done that in other movies before. There's kind of makeup call signs. Juliette Papa is a correct prefix, but then it would have a number and usually one or two or three letters after that. So you're not going to see a call sign with just letters that

ends with numbers typically, So not in Japan anyway. I know, I know it's not a real Japanese call sign. Can you hear me over? Okay, there's a shot of it right there up at the top there. It never really shows the screen come alive at that top radio. But that looks like an IC seven oh five, could be a nine oh five. It's the same radio and different radio in the same casing. Hell other kazua, how I write on time? Now? Now tell me if that sounds

like sideband. You said, water falls from the sky on your planet, right fire column, What a fascinating rain fascinates you? I guess your planet really does shape your perspective, doesn't it. So yeah, it's so he's talking and that that's a very very clear, clean signal. That's not real, not that I think that. You know, there's a bunch of us Hams talking people on other planets anyway, but you know, it's it'd be more realistic if it was an actual

sideband signal. But okay, we'll move on. It's still kind of cool that icons in the show. I got news for you, I guess. So I still can't believe this happened. It's crazy to let's see good. Okay. Right there at the bottom left corner of my screen is the Icy nine to five. It's on ten and forty megahertz, so ten gigaherts. It's on a ten gigaherts signal there, so

there's that. That's just the little box on top of the ninety seven hundred is as a speaker, presumably, And on the on the top that right above that is that one coming from behind it. That's still hard to tell what that is. That's probably a seven oh five. I don't know. We'll see he turns. He never turns. That On CQ. This is JP on Juliet Panther won five one four. I'm hoping Juliet Panthers not the correct fonetics either. It should be Juliette Papa. But again, just

commentary to any stations that can hear me. Weird. Oh this is. This is when he first talked to the person from space. They didn't speak English, which of course that's true. He meets this person from outer space. The SKIP, the Scientific Kaiju Inspection and Prevention team come to visit him because they find a signal because they're tracking him. Actually they're tracking the signal from space. They're not tracking him.

They're tracking the signal from space. So they they come and talk to him there he is right there with SKIP badge and then he comes in and you can kind of see FT eight on the screen over there on the right, and this guy tells him, no, I'm not talking to anybody, but they know he is because there's a signal there. By the way, there's spoilers on this episode, so this was I went back and I watched the first after I did that video last week, I went back and I watched the first three episodes

of the show. It's hard to get through. It's kind of cheesy's I probably would have loved it as a kid, and I'm sure it's probably made for kids now, no problem. Episode three kind of goes back. So this guy on the I think that's him. So this guy in the orange shirt right there, his name is Yuma Yuma. He's the guy who becomes ultraman and on episode three of the series, it kind of shows how that came to be,

gives a quick backstory. Each of these episodes is like twenty five minutes long something like that, so it's not a very long series. I watched episode one, two, and three. I think I started episode four and then I got distracted something. I never went back to it. So I watched episode ten this morning, which has all this icms up in it. Pretty cool. So that's what we're talking about today. Speaking of today's video is brought to you

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Actually I said FT eight earlier. Realistically that's wsjtx and it looks kind of pretty much like FT eight running in the background on his computer screen. Right there, he's talking on voice obviously you're very lucky to be And at the very bottom right corner of the screen right there, he's got a thirteen dot nine presumably that's his power supply and this is the signal that they're monitoring. Yeah, Uma, that's signal your friend has been receiving. It's likely drawing

something here from outer space. You should stop. Yeah. So he's talking to this person on another planet on VHF what sounds like FM okay, and the signals being received by a kaiju from space who comes down and threatens the planet, which is the theme of the Ultraman series. So there you go, right there. This is important right here. This noise that you just heard is important right here

because the kaiju's name is Noiseler. The Kaiju's name is noise aler, so that's that's an important part of the story you thought to be invading from space has just descended to Hoshimoto City evacuation. The noise kaiju, So this is this is basically a q r M kaiju. Cool, okay, a kaiju. Okay. Here's the kaiju using the uh the iron Man laser from the fist thing that he used in Iron Man two. Yeah, he used that in Iron Man two. Okay, that's odd. It's like the sound faded away.

You're exactly right. The sound around noisler has disappeared. What does that mean? Did it consume the noise somehow? It consumes noise, so maybe it consumes qr M. Of course it consumes your radio signal also, but hey, awesome, it just it looks so it looks so real. I can't get over how real this looks. So all right, let's see what. Let's watch him turn into ultra Man. There we go, hah, okay, and Ultraman fights the kaiju like here, he's following him out to throw a disc out in space,

and the kaiju's following it because it's making noise. There we go. Okay, so right, okay, so he's got his IC nine oh five on the left. There it's powered on again. A couple of these shots it's powered off. It's ten thousand megahertz ten gigahertz radio. It's a little bit better shot of the ninety seven hundred. You can actually make out I don't know if you guys can see it in the video or not, but you can actually make out the ninety seven hundred model number on

the on the radio right there. It's dark in the room, so the screen is bright and it's kind of hard to see the actual buttons on the radio, but it does say IC ninety seven hundred right there. So they never really talk about ham radio much. They just they just talk about signals from space and the fact that this guy's talking to a person on another planet, which turns out again spoilers here, So the person on the

other planet, their planet, is dying. She claims she's the last person, that pollution has taken over the planet and killed everything, and the Kaiju intercepts the signal and comes to Earth to wreak havoc or something. I don't know. Still a fun show, not, I mean, you know it was. I was wanting to watch this is episode ten. I was wanting to watch all nine episodes between last week and today where I cause I knew this was episode ten.

I was like, let me watch of the first nine before episode ten comes out, and I couldn't quite make it through more than about three of them because it's just a little bit too cheesy. It is what it is. I mean, you know, it's not made for my demographic, and that's totally fun. But I still think it's really

cool that icon was so prominently featured. It would have been a little bit nice to hear like what a little bit what amateur radio was and how it was used, a little bit more of a deep dive into what the radios were. I'm curious see if that book is a real thing. So who else has watched this? Thank you for all the comments on my last video. I had a lot of you come by and say, oh, yeah, I've been what the original Ultraman was from nineteen sixty

five or sixty six, and I've been watching it. I was watching it when I was a kid, and watched it in the eighties. I watched it in the nineties. There's been like, I don't know five six different renditions of Ultraman and the Ultraman, the original ultraman TV show and this one's called I called it ultraman arc in my first video because the arc look like they're all capitalized, but apparently it's called ultraman arc. And they call him arc because when he flies away, he makes this prism

of light that's an arc around him. So when he's after he's destroyed the Kaiju, he's like, okay, I'm out of here, and it forms this arc around him and he's gone. But anyway, good to see icon in the TV shows, in the movies in media is a good representation of amateur radio in a non amateur radio TV show, and I look forward to seeing what else they might do in the future. Sure, seventy three guys,