This article was originally published in the Jan. 20, 2016 issue of Radio World Engineering Extra. “Milestones” is a series of reminiscences about notable radio technological developments. Some of us ...

I worked for a little FM station in northwest New Jersey decades ago that competed with the New York City stations. My station had a mono audio chain. The owners asked if I could switch the exciter to ...

Every classic car owner knows that as long as you keep your vehicle in good condition, it'll appreciate progressively in value. Still, car parts often deteriorate with age, and some may be difficult ...

A casual understanding of how AM radio works is pretty easy to come by, and standard FM is only a little more complicated. Things can go off the tracks a bit with stereo FM, though — figuring out how ...

Sena keeps putting the good stuff together and getting it out to the market. The second iteration of the downsized but very capable SMH5 intercom, now endowed with an integrated stereo FM tuner, is an ...

Back in presumably the early 1960s, [David]’s grandfather bought a console stereo featuring a record player, AM/FM radio and a rather astounding stereo speaker system that would be more than enough to ...

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When the original SuperConnect dropped in 2014, it was hard to think how it could’ve been bettered. Almost 10 years on, the excellent Stereo upgrade has given us the answer Best DAB radios 2025: the ...

Long hair? Striped bell-bottoms? Mustaches that in retrospect look more squirrelly than suave? Live on-air performances by Tom Waits and Kiss? "Illegal smiles," as John Prine would say? FM100 had that ...

While many people opt to do all their listening from their smartphone, radios still have their place in the market. Newer radios come packing plenty of smart features, and can actually make for a ...