WWII radio plays WWII broadcasts!

[electronjohn]

Then there's "The Waveries"...a SF story I read as a little kid. Seems folks began picking up the letter "S" repeated over & over...then scraps of voice...bits of music...30s radio shows. Someone figured out that the initial signals were Marconi's first tests, followed by Fessenden's tests, early broadcasts...all in the order they were originally transmitted. By the time signals from close to the present day were beginning to show up, it was too late to stop THE ALIEN INVASION!!!!

[wa2ise]

I vaguely remember a TV show, in the early 80's, where a kid repairs an old tube car radio, and it picks up a station that appears to be playing music and programming from the 40's (when the radio was made). It turns out the kid replaced a coil (probably the local oscillator coil) with a wrong one, and that made the radio pick up a nostalgia SW station. And it was a nearby station, which had enough signal strength to barge its way past the MW antenna circuit, and also explained why only the one station could be tuned in. The kid became disappointed by this mundane explanation, as he though he created a time machine radio or such... Well, what do you expect of a plot written for a TV show...

[NowhereMan 1966]

Originally Posted by wa2ise

I vaguely remember a TV show, in the early 80's, where a kid repairs an old tube car radio, and it picks up a station that appears to be playing music and programming from the 40's (when the radio was made). It turns out the kid replaced a coil (probably the local oscillator coil) with a wrong one, and that made the radio pick up a nostalgia SW station. And it was a nearby station, which had enough signal strength to barge its way past the MW antenna circuit, and also explained why only the one station could be tuned in. The kid became disappointed by this mundane explanation, as he though he created a time machine radio or such... Well, what do you expect of a plot written for a TV show...

I believe it was "Nanny and the Professor," it was on from about 1970 to 1972. Hal was the oldest kid and was into science and electronics and he fixed Nanny's radio in her Model A, which she names Arabella. Nanny had low-level ESP where she foresaw things and so on.