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 ...

Bennie Summers tests a tube in his shop at Summertyme Vintage Radio Repair in the Maumee Antique Mall. The Blade/Lisa Dutton Buy This Image An old Hickok voltage meter. The Blade/Lisa Dutton Buy This ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jarret Brown, 41, purchased his very first vintage radio at a flea market when he was about 20 years old. It was a little white RCA Victor for which he paid no more than $2. Today, it lives in his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.