(CBS 5) – You might have one of these gathering dust on a shelf or in a closet. In this Good Question: Does anyone repair those old tube radios anymore? ANSWER: Jerry Cantou is a member of the ...

Before the second world war Radio was a revolution in mass-communication much like the internet today. Fortunes were made and lost, empires built, epic patent battles ensued, all of which resulted in ...

Sometime this year there was an article in your paper with an address to an old radio repair shop in Inglewood. The shop specialized in repairing old tube-type radios. I wish I had kept the address.

[Mr. Carlson] has a really beautiful old 1949-era radio to restore and you can watch him do it in a comprehensive video, below. We aren’t sure what we were more amused by: the odd speaker that looks ...

Bennie Summers tests a tube in his shop at Summertyme Vintage Radio Repair in the Maumee Antique Mall. The Blade/Lisa Dutton Buy This Image An old Hickok voltage meter. The Blade/Lisa Dutton Buy This ...

With each passing year, more old radios succumb to “passive” death. The tubes may still be working, but paper capacitors dry out and crack open. Electrolytics gum up and short. Carbon resistors and ...

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 ...