The National Museum of Broadcasting will be honoring Pittsburgh inventor and broadcasting pioneer Frank Conrad to mark his 150th birthday...
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If necessity is the mother of invention, nostalgia must be its stepmother, or its aunt at the very least. The...
Every 26 months, Earth and Mars come tantalizingly close by virtue of their relative orbits. The closest they’ve been in...
We are always fascinated when someone can take something and extend it in a clever way without changing the original...
These days, paying for TV programming is a fact of life. You pay your cable company or some streaming service...
The 46-year-old probe, which flew by Jupiter and Saturn in its youth and inspired earthlings with images of the planet...
Sometimes, you can’t help but wonder how some things got their name. Porcupines. Balloons. Ham radio. What do you even...
From its inception as a humble mail-order business catering to radio aficionados to its zenith as a global electronics giant,...
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...
