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 ...

Maybe it’s a hand-me-down from an elderly relative. Maybe you found it at a flea market, or it has been hidden in the attic for far too long. It could be an anonymous-looking black box with big dials ...

With Christmas on the horizon, chances are you’ve been thinking about what you’d like to get the special people in your life. You might have even thought about what you’d like them to get you, too.

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 ...

Vintage phonographs, radios and records are the subject of a new exhibit at the Heritage Museum in downtown Houston. The exhibit chronicles the transition of recorded sound through the twentieth ...

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 ...

The A.bsolument Vintage Radios are now available thanks to Focal Naim America and when they’re gone — they’re gone. Did you grow up with a transistor radio or boombox? A Panasonic Transistor Radio and ...

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.

Sometimes it is not how good but how bad your equipment reproduces sound. In a previous hackaday post the circuitry of a vintage transistor radio was removed so that a blue tooth audio source could be ...

“You can’t put new wine in old bottles” – so the saying goes. But you would if you’re a hacker stuck with a radio built in 2005, which looked like it was put together using technology from 1975.

It’s a scene Terry Adelwerth has witnessed multiple times: A car pulls into a radio swap meet in upstate Rochester, and before the driver has a chance to shift into park, people surround the vehicle ...