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I had never heard of Artie Moore, but his is a very interesting story from the earliest days of radio.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie...

Oh this is really phenomenal.  Nick "the Vic"  M0NTV is on the mend from some routine surgery.  While mending he found this 1915 i...

Jagadish Chandra Bose A while back I posted the re-mastered version of the excellent "Secret Live of Machines" episode  on radio. ...

  Click on the image for a better view. Click here for the whole drawing:  https://www.secretlifeofmachines.com/secret_life_of_the_radio_set...

For obvious reasons Marconi stories pop up in my news feeds.  This morning an article  from Wales reminded me of a very dark and dishearten...

SolderSmoke Podcast #233 is available.  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke233.mp3 Travelogue: Cape Cod. SST. Marconi Site. The WFSRA:  ...

Thanks to Stephen 2E0FXZ for alerting us to this important video.  We first posted about the original many years ago.  We were delighted to ...

Thanks to Thomas from The SWLing Post for putting this on his blog.

We had this on fhe blog three years ago, but it is so good that it deserves a second posting.  Thanks to our old friend Stephen Walters f...

Thanks to Rick N3FJZ for sending this to us.  In 25 minutes these fellows manage to capture and explain much of the "magic" of r...

Name that ham!  Here are his comments: This is vintage early 1960’s and my call sign at that time was K3???.   One of my favorite rig...

I really enjoyed this.  It is the first episode of what I hope will be a long-running series. These guys did a great job.  Excellent qual...

Brian, G0NSL, alerted us to this very interesting archive on Marconi:  http://markpadfield.com/marconicalling/museum/html/archivehome.h...

I don't really understand the physics behind this, but it seems to be important. And the video is a lot of fun. There is much Italian ...

This one is more focused on history than on a particular bit of theory, but what a treasure trove of history there is in this 1976 flick! W...

Steve, WG0AT, posed this question in the title line of his latest (excellent) video. I really liked the recordings of Marconi speaking in E...

In London, the places where famous people lived are marked with Blue Plaques. I knew that Marconi's name was on the list, but I had nev...

Last night at a diplomatic reception in Rome I had the privilege of meeting Princess Elettra Marconi, daughter of the inventor. She is a ...

Bill, G4KKI, recently visited the Marconi site at Poldhu, Cornwall. He took with him the book "Thunderstruck" by Eric Larsen. (H...