Vintage home movie film provided by New Jersey radio amateur Bob Schenck, N2OO, was the highlight of a PBS documentary...
History
Marilyn Murphy, Communication Manager for the Arizona Historical Society, announces that the Arizona Historical Society is hosting a virtual program...
Your airplane has crashed at sea. You are perched in a lifeboat and you need to call for help. Today...
On July 4th, 1976, as Americans celebrated the country’s bicentennial with beer and bottle rockets, a strong signal began disrupting...
If you’ve got 10 minutes, how about a quick break to watch a video about renewable clean electric power? Must...
The Yasme Foundation has released two chronicles of amateur radio DX history that make for compelling reading — a downloadable edition of Yasme:...
As the first public institution of higher education in Texas, Texas A&M is a pioneer in many ways. A&M’s amateur...
April 14, 2021, marks the day that the world’s largest manmade, moving object began its titanic futile struggle to survive...
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, has acquired an archive of papers and correspondence to, from,...
If you’ve got a half-hour or so to spare, you could do worse than this video trip through a Philips...
With the former Voice of America Delano relay site in Central California scheduled for eventual demolition for resale, the Collins...
RMS Titanic, Inc., (RMST) the company that owns salvage rights to the Titanic shipwreck, has indefinitely put off its plans to retrieve...
NASA is always keen to highlight the space agency’s many successes, and rightly so — those who pay for these...
Normally we like hearing about old military gear going on the surplus market. But if you encounter some late-model Russian...
During the 1950's and '60's, when the Hammarlund Manufacturing Company had a factory just west of Mars Hill College, the town could...
On December 11, 1921, radio history was made when the signal from amateur station 1BCG in Greenwich, Connecticut, was heard...
Much has been written about the program, performers and setting of KDKA’s “big broadcast” of Nov. 2, 1920, including our...
If you’ve ever built a crystal radio, there’s something magical about being able to pull voices and music from far...
In its heyday, the experience offered by the Heath Company was second to none. Every step of the way, from...
ARRL continues to solicit paper logs of prominent DXpeditions or logs from stations and operators active from more rare locations...
Regular readers will know that here at Hackaday we have a penchant for poking fun at the more silly end...
When RMS Titanic set sail in 1912, it was blessed and cursed with the latest in communication technology—the wireless telegraph. In the last...
A US federal judge in Virginia has given permission to retrieve the ill-fated RMS Titanic’s Marconi wireless gear, which transmitted...
