NEW EXHIBIT AT RADIO CENTRAL Celebrating California Communication History Recently we recognized California's 175th anniversary of statehood. As part of this milestone, CHRS presents a new exhibit featuring people, places, artifacts and events that are California based, and had…
Joe Starkey Living History Event Was Swell! Watch It Now! We had a great turnout last Friday for Joe Starkey's Living History Event. Joe told great stories and played clips about his legendary career. The audience was fascinated and…
New Rotary Spark Transmitter CHRS Member Walt Hayden shows us the operating rotary spark transmitter he built with help from Denny Monticelli. It is a brilliant piece of equipment built with great attention to detail. Beautiful workmanship from Walt. Thank…
Recently, CHRS welcomed members of the Fritchle family, who came to see the beautifully restored radio their family has placed on long-term loan to the museum. The Fritchle Family Visits The Radio Grandpa Oliver Built Philip Monego Unpacks The 1931…
ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION PROJECT: For this project, I used the 1908 first edition: https://books.google.com/books?id=z8xLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false and the 1911 edition: https://dbc.wroc.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=15666&format_id=2 as source texts. The AI I employed—Gemini 2.5 Pro via Google AI Studio—produced what appears to be a professional-quality English translation. However, as I…
Our inaugural Summer Camp is underway all this week at Radio Central. The Broadcasting and Podcasting - focused curriculum, has over 20 'campers' between 6th and 10th grades from the east bay. All of them curious, engaged and enthusiastic to…
How is it possible to sum up over 50 years on the radio? Impossible, but I’ll do my best. Two great things happened in my life in February 1964. The Beatles appeared on Ed Sullivan, and I got my first…