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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

Last month we looked at radio at the start of the Great Depression and how RCA’s President David Sarnoff made the decision to license the heterodyne circuit to any manufacturer willing to pay ...