It wasn’t quite a Christmas miracle, but it was totally unexpected. Take one radio humorist with Playboy credentials, pair him with a...
History
The fascination over the assassination of US President JFK still remains, decades after he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald...
Before the Internet, if you wanted to hear news from around the world, you probably bought a shortwave receiver. In...
If you have a fondness for old and unusual ham gear, has a great video (see below) about a Robot slow...
Here’s a question for you: if you’re the commander of a submarine full of nuclear missiles, how can you be...
The Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications (DLARC) has now added over 90,000 items to its collection of amateur radio related...
My hand is shaking as I press the button on the side of the radio mic. I’m nervous, scared of...
I recently dropped in on one of the Vintage Computer Festival events, and it made me think about why people...
Regarded as the best-known and most important of all the insurgent radio stations, today marks the 79th anniversary of the...
Inside the Supreme Court chamber of the U.S. Capitol on May 24, 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse sat down to make history....
With the recent passing of Don Lancaster, I took a minute to reflect on how far things have come in a...
Here in 2023 the field of electronics covers a breathtaking variety of devices and applications, but if we were to...
Many of us will have found dusty forgotten pieces of electronics and nursed them back to health, but we were...
When the Titanic hit an iceberg while crossing the Atlantic in 1912, its telegraphers desperately sent out distress calls hoping...
For those serving in Vietnam, the only way to stay in touch with family was by using the Military Affiliate...
To mark Morse Code Day (27 April), we explore its modern-day applications, along with its surprising comeback spurred on by...
Thirty years ago, an unusual conversation was had between a grocery store shopper and one of his friends. The pair...
In the 1980s, an oscilloscope was typically a bulky affair with a large CRT, and a heavy power supply. So...
When we first saw this 1944 US Office of Education film about hand soldering, we figured it might still have...
Rossville, Georgia, on the border with Tennessee, doesn’t look like a tech town. It’s the kind of place where homey...
With a UHF antenna, it is easy to rotate a directional antenna to find the bearing to a transmitter. But...
Some of the daily normalities of life in the Cold War seem a little surreal from our perspective in 2023,...
In the 1950s, computers were, for the most part, ponderous machines. But one machine offered a glimpse of the future....
Even if you didn’t own a TRS-80, the widespread footprint of Radio Shack in malls meant that if you are...
W8LT is the call sign for the Amateur Radio and RF Club at The Ohio State University (OSU). The university...
