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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...