ID military radio antennea seen in Predator, please.

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“If it bleeds, we can, …well, the the Playboy Channel off GNIK1.”, or something.

Anyway, when Arnold and friends take the fake Venturabackpack24Volt6000rpmminigun into the bush to fight the Predator, they make a call, to “6” the chgeneral, I suppose, using a radio setup that featured, what I would describe, as a “mini-dish made with chainmail”. I figger this setup would be the father of Stevie Seagull’s “Seal-Phone” that he found laying about in a lifeboat amidships.

My best friend/boss was 2nd Bat Ranger outta Ft. Lewis back in, shit…'84ish or '83, I was still in highschool, says this shit is real, and said they had a very brief training session using this setup, with the chainmail antennea, and were told under extreme shit not to talk about this equipment/technology.

But then Arnold gets it in a movie, and not too shortly thereafter.

What is the name of this equipment? It should be all obsolete these days. Shit, I have put in enough searches on Ebay and Google that the Feds have reversed my peephole. I want one.

Is GNIK1 still up there?

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I’d need a picture to properly identify it. But, there are plenty of SATCOM radios. I have seen stuff from actual small dishes, a fat antenna, stuff that would look like four leaves, to something that would resemble a tree made from black sticks.

But, maybe you mean this guy? There are quite a few variants of the PSC radio. Just google “PSC radio” and under images you should find it.

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My radiopal made this little piece of folkart.

Tis the season upload target coordinates.

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Like this?