via Hackaday: Repairing a Hallicrafters S-120
claims he’s not a radio repair guy, but he agreed to look at a…
Category: vintage
via Hackaday: Happy Birthday to Dad, Retrocomputer Style
For those of us who lived through the early 8-bit computing revolution — the tail…
Ham Radio Call Signs Discovered During Clayton UC Renovation Revive Memories of Lehigh’s Amateur Radio Society (Pennsylvania)
Mysterious letters and numbers etched into the wall of a sealed-off, fifth-floor room in the Clayton…
via HACKADAY: A Trip Down Electronic Toy Memory Lane
Like many of us, had a lot of electronic toys growing up. In a…
via HACKADAY: Old Knobs with a Cast of Thousands
You have an old radio — in the case of , a Stromberg…
via HACKADAY: Building and Testing a 1912-style Radio
Doing electronics in the 1910s was rather rough, with the radio probably the pinnacle of…
via HACKADAY: How Do You Fill The 1N34 Void?
The germanium point contact diode, and almost every semiconductor device using germanium, is now obsolete….
via HACKADAY: Spend an Hour in the Virtual Radio Museum
You have an hour to kill, and you like old communication technology. If you happen…
via HACKADAY: Crystal Radio Kit from the 1970s
If you read the December 1970 issue of Mechanix Illustrated, you’d be treated to ’s…
via HACKADAY: Voice Control for a Vintage Heathkit Radio
Most modern ham rigs have a voice activated transmission (VOX) mode, although we don’t know…