No finding a replacement microchip here, this was all about replacing capacitors and finding vacuum tubes! In contrast to most modern builds we see on Hackaday, vintage radios are fairly simple – ...
It can be difficult for modern eyes to make much sense of electronics from the 1960s or earlier. Between the point-to-point soldering, oddball components, and the familiar looking passives blown up to ...
Can this affordable EL84-based vintage tube receiver play with the big kids in the sandbox? You might be surprised by the answer. Why is there still so much interest in tube amplifiers? One would ...