Arrival of the package

The delivery, which was left with some haste, remained untouched for several days. Having been relieved of the weeks pressing matters I moved the device into my workshop. Closer inspection, and no little research, reveal it to be a Victor 4-X-644 table-top radio — manufactured in the year 1956 by RCA. The only providence allowed to me is that it was manufactured in Camden New Jersey. A glyph on the back leads one to believe it produces the tone of the "golden throat" as certified by one J L (last name illegible) which the glyph goes to assure, holds considerable prestige at the RCA Radio Division.

The apparatus does not hide the 70 odd years of its existence. The shell is covered in dust , the surfaces scratched, and knobs missing. I find it disconcerting that someone saw the need, I assume the last use, to completely sever the electrical plug - leaving only a frayed wire remaining.

Thoughts that the last time human hands touched these components was seven decades ago, and those hands had, with fair certainty, passed from this realm to the next haunt the fringes of my thoughts.

Late that night, while my mind wandered, I developed a plan. A plan, maybe born of madness, maybe a plan seeded by my wife is reading the original 1813 version of Frankenstein. This device with was built to pull electrical fields from the ether and transform them into sound - and I plan to honor that.

My plan is to:

Remove the innards.
Remove the years of wear from the case.
Replace the ancient speakers with the modern equivalent.
Install a microcontroller and blue tooth connection.
Replace the potentiometer used for volume.
Replace the archaic tuning mechanism

Our institution has many relationships with outputs and instructions around the globe. I plan on pulling the constant communication of these stations from around the globe.

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