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The Resurrection of Radio

Circa 210 Vintage radio is alive and well! Perhaps you recall that long forgotten mode of AM, Amplitude Modulation? Well AM is back, with a vengeance. Fortified by the bromide “Everything Old Becomes New Again.”, hams both new and old have begun to discover, or in...

Real Radio – A Letter I Sent To Electric Radio

Intro This was sent when I lived near Buffalo, NY, in the late 1990s. I had just read a story by Bruce Vaughn N5RQ, now a silent key. Bruce has a wonderful story teller, and friend, and an old time radio repairman. If you ever get a chance to read any of his articles...

Old Buzzard Notes and Nets – Circa 2005

Circa 2005 Read something interesting in the January 1941 of QST this week. In 1941 the League was hot on running “Code Proficiency Tests” and awarding certificates for participants, in fact nearly every issue of QST in 1941 had some article relating to CW operations,...

My Radio Story

I was 12 when I first received a Radio Shack DX-160 shortwave receiver for Christmas. My father, who worked on road construction at the time, used to bring home large rolls of wire from blasting caps. I used this wire to construct the largest and most bizarre antenna...