“Magic Wand” for Tuning Loopstick Antennas
By Simon Favre For quite a few years, some AM radios used a ferrite rod antenna, also known as a ferrite loopstick antenna. Ferrite loopsticks are usually a round or rectangular cross section rod of ferrite material with one or…
2024 Radio Day By The Bay – LIVE! In Alameda!
CHRS VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR! BETTY COSMOS! A Very Surprised Betty Cosmos With Her Pals Kim Wonderley And Terry McGovern Each year CHRS recognizes a member who exudes volunteer spirit to the ultimate degree. This year’s volunteer is no exception…
Attention amateurs: DXpedition videos and sound recordings now online!
Thanks to the Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications our DXpedition videos and tapes from the CHRS Maxwell Library have been digitized and are now available online. See and hear how stations at exotic locations from West Africa to…
Radio Day by the Bay 2024- Live! In Alameda
Booth Application Thank you for your interest in participating in the California Historical Radio Society’s signature event, Radio Day by the Bay 2024- Live! In Alameda on Saturday, July 20, 2024 from 8:00 AM-3:00 PM at 2152 Central Ave., Alameda,…
Radio Central Construction
"There's Something Happening Here"... It's Big Construction At Radio Central Radio Central Today Radio Central Soon This Will Change CHRS Radio Central Forever And We Want You To Be Part Of It! CLICK HERE FOR THE STORY AND DETAILS PLEASE…
Radio Central Photo Archive Updated 6-13-2024
Radio Central Photos Dave Martens Does Some Upper Level Electrical Work Dave Billeci & Mike Tanaka Cleaning Up The Front Garden Keith Scott Prepares Our Staff Door For Repainting Bart Lee, John Staples & Scott Robinson Check A Signal On SDR New…
Roots of the CHRS Doggie
Bart Lee's Radio History Roots Of The CHRS Doggie Powel and Louis Crosley personified Big Business in the 1920s and 1930s. Among other things they pioneered radio both in the home and on the air — eventually with half a…
General Interest Articles
On this page, those articles about radio that can be called "General Interest," that is, those with technical/historic topics that don't fit into other traditional categories: Norm Berge, CHRS Founder Norm, and several others founded the California Historical Radio Society as a…