Ray Likar was instantly drawn to the 1947 short wave radio at the tag sale. When Likar found out the owner was asking only $25 for the unit, he snatched it up. "As soon as I turned it on, the Yankee ...

To admire a vintage radio as an art object in the home is enough for some collectors. It may be a 50-year-old, colorful, translucent-plastic compact model, a wooden-cased cathedral-style table radio ...

Think of antique radio collections and you probably conjure an image of shelves filled with cathedral and tabletop receivers, suitcase portables and large floor-standing consoles. But to those who ...

One of the largest areas of interest to many collectors is anything distributed or licensed by the Coca-Cola Company. Just about everything, including vintage advertising items, old bottles, ...

Jarret Brown, 41, purchased his very first vintage radio at a flea market when he was about 20 years old. It was a little white RCA Victor for which he paid no more than $2. Today, it lives in his ...

Long before computers, smart phones and television, the radio was the center of family entertainment and information. Now those classic old radios are being collected and restored by members of the ...

The Zenith Z-1000 Stratosphere was Zeniths top of the line and marketed as a rich man’s radio. It sold for $750, which was higher than the average price of a new car in the mid 1930s. The Stratosphere ...

Harvey Mattel says there are two kinds of radio collectors: Those who collect for what's on the inside and those who collect for what's on the outside. He's the latter. But you would never know this ...

The FCC fined Richard Mann $7,000 for marketing uncertified AM transmitters. The Spectrum Enforcement Division of the FCC’s Enforcement Bureau responded to a complaint in 2006 that Mann’s Antique ...

“Since 1950 I was in the electronic repair business and I retired in 1981 but after 12 months of doing nothing, I started repairing vintage radios,” Mr Meijer said. The Castlecrag collector’s passion ...

For local resident Irv Kochman, a long-wave hobby has become a long-term hobby. Kochman is a collector of vintage radios, which he first began dabbling in as a young child when his father bought him ...