From its inception as a humble mail-order business catering to radio aficionados to its zenith as a global electronics giant,...
History
A homeowner has been left baffled after he came across a mysterious electrical box in a brickwork crawl space under his...
For those of us who remember Radio Shack as more than just an overpriced cell phone store, a lot of...
Radio Shack had a long history of buying things overseas, having their name slapped on them, and selling them in...
Did you know? The Eiffel Tower was supposed to be dismantled after 20 years. Fortunately, things didn’t happen that way,...
...Back in 1970, a man named Hugo Doyle Owens was at a crossroads. Born and raised in Scottsboro, Owens had...
In 1982, a World’s Fair was held in Knoxville Tennessee. Dubbed the “Energy Exposition”, there was a full six months...
In the “don’t try this at home” category, builds a spark gap transmitter with a twist. The twist is that the drive...
ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® sought a waiver on behalf of the activators, and the Federal Communications Commission...
There are a bunch of ways to estimate the age of a radio amateur, by the letters in their callsign,...
The FCC has issued a waiver to allow ham radio operators to communicate with federal stations on and around Pearl...
It wasn’t quite a Christmas miracle, but it was totally unexpected. Take one radio humorist with Playboy credentials, pair him with a...
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...
