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 ...

A while ago, Radio World Editor in Chief Paul McLane forwarded me a letter of a type that he frequently gets. It asked for help in disposing of a collection of old radios, radio parts and ...

Instructables user [knife141] enjoys restoring vintage electronics in his spare time, especially old radios. AM radios tend to pique his curiosity the most, and in this tutorial, he discusses the ...

Harvey Mattel says there are two kinds of radio collectors: Those who collect for what's on the inside and those who collect for what's on the outside. He's the latter. But you would never know this ...

I inherited my grandpa’s old console radio because no one else wanted it. It hadn’t worked for decades. It was slightly beat-up, and somewhat large and heavy. Think NFL player. Well, that’s ...

If you ever run into a vintage radio like this old Graetz model, there are worse things you could do than turn it into a fully functional internet jukebox that can stream from the web or play tracks ...

An old — on second thought, make that “very old” — Sony AM/FM broadcast transistor, which I somehow acquired, finally got a little too cranky for me, Figure 1. The analog-dial tuning knob was sluggish ...