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, ...

The ad for the antique radio would break many collectors' hearts. It touted a Majestic Model 92, a floor-standing console made in Chicago in 1929, which featured still-gorgeous walnut veneer and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ARCADIA – Behind a nondescript industrial storefront, tucked incongruously amid Arcadia’s sea of strip malls and tract housing, John Pomazi is stockpiling history. The antique radio repairman hides ...

The Bell Museum Annual Collectors Day is Saturday, November 1st, 2025. Join Bell Museum for their third annual Collectors Day ...

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, ...

A new box set of previously unreleased recordings by country music legend Hank Williams compiles radio broadcasts from 1951 called The Complete Mother's Best Recordings…Plus! Housed in a replica of a ...

WASHINGTON — With all the gadgets available today, it might be nice this holiday season to take a new look at something old. That’s what 3ryan had in mind when it introduced its new line of antique ...

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 ...