Radio from the Leaves: A Dead Voice Reading Harwick's Weather
Radio from the Leaves: A Dead Voice Reading Harwick's Weather
A dead radio in the leaf litter spoke a man's voice reading wind speed and barometric pressure for forty seconds - and the device had no batteries. The recording was made on March 9, 2011 in Harwick, Tennessee, and the broadcast matched an AWOS format normally transmitted from a water tower about 1.3 miles away; how did a powerless transistor radio pick up that signal on the ridge?
In this episode, we walk through the morning Jessica Carlson found the radio and recorded the forty-second weather broadcast, trace how a local…
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