A few weeks ago we got a visit from the TV production company Fabelaktiv, who wanted to do a video report about our club. Fabelaktiv is probably mostly known for producing Norsk Tipping’s lottery broadcasts for NRK, the Norwegian state-run public broadcaster. For the Tuesday lottery program “Extra”, a video report from around the country is shown in the middle of the program each week. On the May 6th edition our segment was finally shown and we thought we’d share it for the non-gamblers as well.
The segment with a proper time-stamp can be found here.
The content may not be available for all of our international readers unfortunately. If you have a VPN you can access it just fine on NRK’s services, otherwise the clip is also featured on the producer’s Facebook page. And, if you’re not very fluent in Norwegian, we’ve added a transcript of the subtitles below, translated from the video.
Subtitles transcript
[Host]: Today, mobile phones are a common thing.
They have become advanced computers –
– that you can use to get in touch with
the whole world with just a few keystrokes.
Still, there is something fascinating
about older technology, even if you are young.
We visited a group at
the Student Society in Trondheim –
– who are having a blast with the radio.
[Club members]: Lima, Alfa, One, Kilo.
Thank you.
It can almost be compared to an adult
walkie talkie, but on a global scale.
You send out radio waves from Trondheim, –
– then someone in Germany hears it and you
get a response from there, or from China or Japan.
Around the world, then.
He’s in Hungary.
It started in 1923, and it comes from NTH
where a bunch of students –
– who didn’t get enough education about radio in 1923
when it was new and fancy.
So they created a separate group to learn about
radio, and for over 100 years they’ve been doing it.
Students who have been involved with radio.
We’re sending maximum power.
You heard: Big signal.
The weather is very popular to talk about.
Not just to be nice, –
– but because it means a lot when you
send a radio signal. How it works.
This is Lima, Alfa, One, Kilo.
You’re not sure you’ll get a response.
It’s unique. The club is really old.
and a lot of the equipment is really old.
We’ve compared it to catching fish.
You send out the signals and hope, –
-and then you cast the line again and again, and maybe someone answers.
When you get an answer, it’s incredibly cool.
This guy was from Poland.
-This program can decode images.
-Yeah, look here.
Someone sending a picture from Spain.
The image mode here
was used on the Apollo missions.
I find it rewarding to give to others. I
did a lot of volunteer work during my studies.
We meet regularly on Mondays and work on
the equipment and develop new things and eat waffles.
So there’s a really nice sense of community.
We help them make the project better.
It’s cool.
Oh… see how far they can take the radio equipment.
What they get to set up, then.
That’s the community for me.
A shared interest in making something together.
And then radio is incredibly exciting
on top of it all.
[Host]: To… create and achieve something together with others,
I hope that never goes out of fashion.
From the Student Society in Trondheim
we take the trip to Frøya…
