Long before television there was radio. First tabletops then consoles made their way into the living rooms of Americans. Families would gather around their radios to listen to the nightly news and ...

TV and radio repairman Floyd Cox in front of his VW service van, pictured with his canine assistant in the passenger seat. With the advent of KDKA, the first licensed station broadcasting to the ...

Last month we looked at contributions to the art made by amateur operators, in particular advancements in Amplitude Modulation, or AM, and how it came to give radio its voice. This month, we will look ...

If modern black-box electronics don't go well with the more timeless decor of your home, perhaps it's time to camouflage them. In this case, that means turning a vintage radio into a modern Wi-Fi ...

Betty J. Cotter ([email protected]), a monthly contributor, teaches writing and journalism at the University of Rhode Island. The coronavirus epidemic has made old technologies new again.

Radios were a pivotal 20th century phenomenon. Developed initially for wireless telegraphy, they carried voice and music after 1920. Although radios faded in home status as television took hold in the ...

This beautiful little radio may look like an art deco relic from a hundred years ago, but it is actually from 2023. When [Craig Lindley] first saw this design on these very pages a few years ago, he ...

In contrast to most modern builds we see on Hackaday, vintage radios are fairly simple – mainly turret-board builds with a transformer, resistors, capacitors, coil and tubes. The main issues in any ...

A grandfather-of-five has revealed his impressive antique radio and test instrument collection worth up to £15,000. Richard Allan, a retired electrical engineer, has spent the last fifty years ...

It was called the “Golden Age of Radio” in the 1940s and 1950s. Although thoughts recall the radio programing of the day when we hear the term, the equipment itself was also “golden,” so to speak.

Fuad Hashim, owner of a radio repair shop, works on an antique radio in his workshop in central Baghdad, Iraq, on July 29, 2022. (Photo: Xinhua) Fuad Hashim, owner of a radio repair shop, works on an ...