Radio

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Radio

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First Introduced

"The Other 48 Days"

Last Seen

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Owned by

Unknown, currently by Hurley

Found by

Tailies in the Arrow

Used by

Tailies, Sayid

A two-way radio was discovered by the tail section survivors in the Arrow station. The item was folded in a cloth together with a Bible and a glass eye. Bernard used the radio and made contact with (at the time unknown to him) Boone, who was operating the radio in the Nigerian drug smugglers' plane.

Later Hurley gave the radio to Sayid. Sayid boosted the signal and was able to pick up Danielle Rousseau's distress signal and the radio station WXR playing the Glenn Miller song "Moonlight Serenade". ("The Long Con")

After Hurley suggested the radio station had to be close to the island because of the clarity of the signal, Sayid remarked that radio waves at that frequency bounce off the ionosphere and can travel thousands of miles. The radio signal could have originated from anywhere... "or any time". Perhaps it is Hurley's joke that is in fact right after all.

Trivia

• Similar to the disappearance of Oceanic Flight 815, an aircraft containing Glenn Miller (the author of the song "Moonlight Serenade") also mysteriously disappeared. The plane lost radio contact in flight and failed to land at Paris, the scheduled destination of the flight. The aircraft was never found, nor were the bodies of Miller and the two army officers on board. [1]

Other radios

• The radio Wheeler used to call for backup on Kate's intrusion into the hospital ("Born to Run")
• The nonfunctional aviation radio the pilot of Flight 815 attempted to use before the crash ("Pilot, Part 1")
• The automobile radio that the members of Drive Shaft heard their song playing on ("Greatest Hits")
• In the ARG Find 815, the radio on which Sam hears a 1937 broadcast about Amelia Earhart
• The other radio-related items listed in the "See also" section below

Unanswered questions

For fan theories about these unanswered questions, see: Radio/Theories

• With the Looking Glass blocking all signals, how did Sayid pick up WXR?

See also

• Radio tower
• Transceiver
• Transmission - disambiguation
• Walkies
• Telephones
• Satellite phones
• WXR

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