Back in 1966, a suitable toy for a geeky kid was a radio kit. You could find simple crystal radio sets or some more advanced ones. But some lucky kids got the Philips Electronic Engineer EE8 Kit on ...

A recent commentary in Radio World — an industry publication dedicated to radio engineering at radioworld.com — brought up something I have been wondering for many years: how does adding a low-powered ...

As transistor radios and their price tags got smaller, music stations on AM radio grew in popularity. As hard as it might be to believe, it was not so long ago when AM radio ruled. Cool kids listened ...

Last week, I wrote about the state of the art in radio: Software-defined radios, which use software to do the job that mechanical parts do in older radios. Most, if not all, modern designs incorporate ...

This two transistor AM radio circuit is also called “mini-radio”. It uses only 2 transistors and few passive components which makes is very easy to be constructed. Although the circuit is very simple, ...

If you cultivate an interest in building radios it’s likely that you’ll at some point make a simple receiver. Perhaps a regenerative receiver, or maybe a direct conversion design, it’ll take a couple ...

The idea of using a super-regenerative radio to receive commercial FM stations can be found at various locations on the Internet. Because the circuit is so small, it might be impressive to lab ...