Item Seed: The Retrospective Radio
This item is, to outward appearance, identical to a portable transistor AM radio from about 1970 or so. It runs on 9 volt batteries, although the batteries may not be actually necessary: the Radio never seems to quite run out of battery power on its own. People who own the Radio seem to change the batteries mostly out of a sense of caution.
The Retrospective Radio operates exactly as a normal AM radio would, with one glaring exception: if you tune it to 1410 on the AM dial you’ll pick up a strong signal from a radio station (WTIM). There is actually a station with that frequency and call sign (out of Illinois), but it’s not this WTIM. This WTIM is a 24 hours news station that faithfully reports current events from precisely two weeks ago, in between commercials for products that nobody’s ever heard of. Continue reading Item Seed: The Retrospective Radio