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 ...

In August we ran a few photos of Steve Johnson’s excellent collection of radios. This month, we’re tuning in on his tube testers. All information courtesy of Steve’s website. Confidence Special First, ...

Before the second world war Radio was a revolution in mass-communication much like the internet today. Fortunes were made and lost, empires built, epic patent battles ensued, all of which resulted in ...

John Waldron zips and zaps around his north Austin apartment like the waves that are pulled out of the air by his amazing collection of vintage tube radios. The pops, crackles and hums that emanate ...

No finding a replacement microchip here, this was all about replacing capacitors and finding vacuum tubes! In contrast to most modern builds we see on Hackaday, vintage radios are fairly simple – ...

I found a really neat Philo 40-195 vacuum tube radio at an antique shop. The actual equipment is missing tubes and otherwise just completely shot, but the case is in good condition. Here's some pics ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nowadays we take for granted the ability to just turn on our car radio when we want news, music, or entertainment while traveling about. Such convenience was not always the case. Prior to the 1930s, ...

The project illustrates how a very old and vintage radio was made to connect with a TDA7330B RDS demodulator along with an ATtiny2313 microcontroller making it an RDS decoder. The design of the ...