Two Communications

PY5QW Antenna

In the quiet town of Roselawn, what begins as innocent curiosity about the new world of wireless radio becomes a race against time. When a mysterious voice suddenly crackles through their homemade radio set. The Radio Girls of Roselawn By Margaret Penrose (1922)

IK8XIR Hamshack

Southwest Missouri Radio Club - Field Day 1984

JH0EJF - QTH Nagano, Japan

YR5PB Hamshack, circa 1935

Radio News Magazine, March 1948

BG7XWF Antenna

Radio a valvole, Ducretet. Francia, 1924

PA3DAT Antenna

Kennedy Type 220 & Kennedy Type 525
A regenerative radio receiving system produced in the early 1920s.

Lehigh’s Amateur Radio Society

The Radio Boys' First Wireless By Allen Chapman | Published by Grosset & Dunlap (1922)
When wireless sweeps across America like a storm of invisible energy, Bob Layton and Joe Atwood are determined to master the mysterious new science.

CE3VRT 23cm EME (Earth-Moon-Earth)

W2NSG, Upsala College Radio Station, New Jersey, circa 1958

The Lafayette Explor-Air KT-135 was a four-band regenerative radio receiver kit sold during the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. Because it was sold as a kit, no two builds were exactly alike. Every KT-135 reflects the skill of its builder, and each surviving unit tells a personal story.

SM5RM Station operated by Olof Fridman in Stockholm, Sweden 1960s.

Making a Transistor Radio, written by George C. Dobbs and illustrated by B. H. Robinson (1972), is a hands-on guide to the foundations of radio construction. Step by step, it leads the reader from a simple crystal set through diode detection and transistor amplification to a fully working radio.

JA4ICR Antenna

JA3AMI Antenna

The loop-antenna receiver in the foreground: a deForest D-7A, with tube viewing ports across the front panel. Howard M. Gore - February, 1924.

Heathkit – A Guide to the Amateur Radio Products by Chuck Penson (WA7ZZE)

EB1FOO Antenna

JL3ZGL, FB Girls Radio Club

Edward Hammond’s Ham Radio: Your Ticket to Worldwide Adventure captures the stories that define ham radio as both a service and a hobby. Instead of focusing on schematics and specifications, it reveals what truly makes ham radio extraordinary — the people behind the callsigns.

Shortwave listening (SWL)

US8AR 13 element 144MHz LFA Yagi

Nobeyama Radio Observatory - Japan

12-tube, dual-conversion radio receiver produced in the early 1960s, designed for AM, CW, and SSB modes on the 160-6 meter bands, with a 2-meter converter. The Hammarlund HQ-110A

“The Twins” Yaesu FRDX-400 receiver and the FLDX-400 transmitter. Released around 1971, these two units were designed to work together as a matched HF station.