Building radio receivers from scratch is still a popular project since it can be done largely with off-the-shelf discrete components and a wire long enough for the bands that the radio will receive.

Back in the day, building a DIY radio was fun! We only had to get our hands at a germanium diode, make some coils, and with a resistor and long wire as an antenna maybe we could get some sound out of ...

If you're a beginning electronic hobbyist looking for an inexpensive project or just want to have a solar-powered radio to throw in your zombie apocalypse kit you'll have fun making this emergency ...

AM is dead! We should stop wasting time on it and focus on FM. I’ve heard that sentiment in various forms for years, probably going back to the late 1980s. Is it true? In some cases, yes. Is it ...

Useful electronics projects are a great way to learn new skills. Today we highlight a handy DIY guide for turning old radio parts into an audio-bug that transmits on FM frequencies. DIY electronics ...

This gorgeous old-style radio is actually a DIY kit, made from cardboard. The faux-wood case hides a hybrid of the modern and the ancient. The radio stage uses vacuum tubes to receive and produce the ...

Sometimes when a company buys a broadcast station, it’s like buying furniture from one of those stores where consumers can save money by putting the merchandise together themselves. Such is the case ...

The variable capacitor C1 and L1 will constitute the tank circuit which will produce the high frequency signal, the capacitor C1 is variable so that we can produce different frequency signal by ...

It may well be the only village FM radio station on the Asian sub-continent. It is certainly illegal. The transmission equipment, costing just over $1, may be the cheapest in the world. But the local ...