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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

What motivates a collector to dedicate a portion of his or her life to searching for the most rare and beautiful forms of a certain item? Is it their love of stamps from all over the world or is it ...