Will you step up to support Westword this year? At Westword, we’re small and scrappy — and we make the most of every dollar from our supporters. Right now, we’re $21,000 away from reaching our ...

Elegant wood-encased tube radios that look like antique furniture. Plastic-encased transistors that mimic cigarette packs, Coke bottles, measuring tapes and spray cans of WD-40 along with so many ...

Severe weather situations, such as hurricanes or wildfires, can develop extremely quickly. That’s why it’s vital to stay ready with an emergency preparedness supplies kit, and including one of the ...

An abiding memory for a teen fascinated by electronics and radio in the 1970s and 1980s is the proliferation of propaganda stations that covered the shortwave spectrum. Some of them were slightly ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. When Hurricane Helene took out power and cellular communication ...

The AM debate is fiercer than ever, as EVs stand to cut out the band on the grounds that EV operations create too much radio frequency interference for AM to be viable. David Schutz, of Hoffman Schutz ...

Since starting his GoFundMe campaign in December, New York broadcast engineer Paul Thurst has raised more than $1,300 to send portable radios to war-torn Ukraine. “In this high tech world with all of ...

Delphi has begun producing satellite radios for the Canadian market, company officials said at the 2006 international consumer electronics show being held in Las Vegas this week. In Canada, Delphi now ...