A Planet Analog article, “ 2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor? ” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old ...

Fire up your AM transistor radio and get ready to travel back in time Friday night to the heyday of the Top 40, when WLS-AM 890 and WCFL-AM 1000 battled it out for supremacy on the Chicago airwaves.

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Jockey-turned-sculptor Philip Blacker has fondly remembered his times with the Earl of Donoughmore and the journey on which Ruby Tiger took them following the death of the star mare's former co-owner ...

Madrid (AFP) – Madrid residents returned to work Tuesday a day after a crippling nationwide blackout in Spain with a renewed sense of the necessity of candles, cash and battery-powered radios for ...

London, U.K., Nov. 13, 1958: A man looks into the window of a radio repair shop in London. Sometimes, Stars and Stripes archivists find a couple of shots on a roll that have nothing to do with the ...

My first battery-powered radio — a ten-transistor Realtone — came from my Aunt Ina when I was about seven. I used to think I was ten, but the songs from 1973 would be wrong: I distinctly remember ...

【Portable AM FM Radio With Best Reception】Capable of receiving FM (87-108 MHZ) AM (520-1730 KHZ)channels,upgraded DSP chip with extendable 16.5 antenna ensures the best signal is captured in any ...

As the calendar flips over into 2025, and the first radio surveys of the year are set to begin, it’s hard to recall of any other time than 2024 which served us up with such a multitude of changes in ...

John Waters came over to Australia as a young adult on a working holiday and never left. He would become one of our best recognised actors on stage and screen, and with old and young, after nearly two ...

Many Hackaday readers have an interest in retro technology, but we are not the only group who scour the flea markets. Alongside us are the collectors, whose interest is as much cultural as it is ...