Early Radio Healers and Hucksters
By John Schneider W9FGH
In 1922, radio broadcasting exploded in the US virtually overnight. This new form of information and entertainment burst upon the scene and was quickly embraced by millions of Americans. Like the internet, its early years were fertile grounds for unscrupulous characters, crooks and shysters. It took the Federal Radio Commission and the Mexican government years to clean up the airwaves.
Atwater Kent and the One-Dial Radio
By Rich Post KB8TAD
The name Atwater Kent is nearly synonymous with 1920s radios. As the largest radio manufacturer in 1925, with a 15.5-acre plant in Philadelphia that would eventually employ 12,000 people, had built and sold over 1 million radios—mostly three-dial tuned radio frequency sets. Atwater Ketn sought to make a simpler, easier to operate one-dial set. Rich traces the success and eventual demise of this early giant of the radio industry.
Marconi and All the Ships at Sea
By Mark Haverstock K8MSH
The land-based telegraph system dramatically changed communications in the 19th century. But when the land ended so did the telegraph. Inventing a way to send dots and dashes across water seemed a Holy Grail of communications. To be able to skip across oceans and even contact ships at sea would be as great an accomplishment ans land-based telegraph. The race to do so was on!
Harold H. Beverage 2BML: A Communications Genius
Like so many young people growing up in the early 20th century, Harold H. Beverage had a need to understand wireless communications—he grew up on Rockland Island, Maine, where communications went at the speed of water transport from the mainland. His curiosity led to a degree in science from the University of Maine and work at General Electric with Ernst Alexanderson, where he perfected the extraordinarily long antenna named after him.
The Bengali Polymath: Jagadish Chandra Bose
By Georg Wiessala
Chandra Bose became the most prominent Indian botanist, biophysicist and plant physiologist in his time. But he also made ground-breaking contributions to other disciplines of study, including physics, radio science, literature, biology and archaeology. His principal innovation was the use of a semi-conducting crystal—a coherer—for the detection of radio waves.
Radio Innovation, Insights and Italy
By Chrissy Brand
This past spring, Chrissy traveled around Puglia, Italy, checking out the vibrant beach radio scene, a lighthouse and radio museum and an exhibition celebrating 100 years of radio in Italy, which included vintage radios, record players, gramophones, speakers and microphones on display. She also wraps up her report from the Radiodays Europe conference in Athens, Greece.
Scanning America
By Dan Veeneman
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Federal Wavelengths
By Chris Parris
Rose Festival 2025 Fleet Week
Utility Planet
By Hugh Stegman
The Ongoing Mystery of French Military Morse
Milcom
By Daniel O. Myers K3NXX
USAF Aerial Refueling
Shortwave Utility Logs
By Mike Chace-Ortiz and Hugh Stegman
The World of Shortwave Listening
By Valter Aguiar
Brazilian SW Update; Radio in Time of Need
The Shortwave Listener
By Fred Waterer
Shortwave Programming for July
European Radio Scene
By Georg Wiessala
Music of the Spheres and the Voice of the Planet
Bits & Bytes
By Gayle Van Horn W4GVH
Afghanistan Radio Shocker: BBC Payments to Taliban; the End of Bro. Stair on Shortwave
Radio 101
By Ken Reitz KS4ZR
Antenna Man OTA-TV Signal Meter
Medium Wave Radio
By Loyd Van Horn W4LVH
Meteor Scatter Rocks! Taming the Biggest Challenge in FM DX
Adventures in Radio Restoration
By Rich Post KB8TAD
A Classic Signal Generator: Precision E-200C
Kits and Kit-Building
By Joe Eisenberg K0NEB
A Trip to the Annual Dayton Hamvention
Digitally Speaking
By Cory GB Sickles WA3UVV
Digital Nature
Amateur Radio Insights
By Kirk Kleinschmidt NT0Z
Is Your Transmit Audio ‘Cool Jazz’ or ‘Tin Can and a String?’
VHF and Above
By Joe Lynch N6CL
Arecibo Radio Telescope: Lost to the World for Good