Radio

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Radio

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First Introduced

"The Other 48 Days"

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 smuggler's 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]