Looks like a Gonset Communicator and companion amplifier. The amplifier ran a pair of 826s and put out about 50 watts.
 
They're at least 50 years old -- the producer must have raided somebody's classic radio collection. The amplifier is probably rather rare.
 
The ad shows that despite the occasional comments you hear that "nobody's heard of ham radio," it's part of popular culture.
 
Dave K1ZZ
 
 


From: Andy Oppel [mailto:andy@andyoppel.com]
Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:56 AM
To: arrl-odv
Subject: [arrl-odv:16555] New Mountain Dew Commercial

For those of you who have not seen the new commercial that has a woman "playing with her ham radio" in the rain, here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MieEfkwICB8

73,
Andy Oppel, N6AJO
Vice Director, Pacific Division
American Radio Relay League (ARRL)
The National Association for Amateur Radio

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