The AM broadcast band doesn’t have a lot of mainstream programming on it across much of the United States today. That’s a shame because a lot of kids got their first taste of radio and electronics by ...

Crystal Radios are an old standby of GeekDads. For the early mists of time Geekdads have been showing kids how to pull radio stations from thin air with the barest snips from the basement. Here are ...

If you are ready to take a break from high-speed, complex digital systems, consider becoming a “rock hound” and constructing a crystal radio, one of the earliest forms of receivers. For close to 100 ...

Crystal radios can feel magical, given their ability to tune in audio from distant stations with nothing but the energy from the radio signal itself. However, to achieve this feat, they typically rely ...

In the beginning, there was the Tinkertoy set ... and chemistry sets, and crystal radio kits, and phonographs, and plenty of other gadgets to put under a fresh-cut Christmas tree. Those retro-tech ...

This Little Museum Outside DC Offers a Deep Dive Into Retro Radio and TV Tech Before you streamed everything, there was this: The National Capital Radio & Television Museum spotlights how airwaves ...

SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — I grew up in Topeka, Kansas. When I was around 11 years old, in the mid 1950s, my sister and her husband gave me a crystal radio kit for Christmas. That night, my brother-in-law ...