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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This beautiful table from 1929 hides a seven-tube Atwater-Kent radio chassis and 10-inch speaker. The earliest tube radio in my collection that falls into this unique category is actually a beautiful ...

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 ...

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 Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, 115 Pierson Lane, Windsor, CT) The home of the largest collection of early radios in the U.S. Founded in 1990 by John Ellsworth, the Radio ...

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, ...