Police Constable Squire of the Gloucestershire Police, a licensed amateur radio operator and member of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), transmits slow-speed Morse code from his radio station to help fellow police officers learn the code.

Training Of Wireless Operators For The R.A.F

Trainee wireless operators get to grips with direction-finding equipment, circa 1940.

PA9X Antenna

Clyde Hendrix, W0HBG, accepted Serial Number 1 (the very first Collins amateur radio station built after the war). To most people, it was simply a transmitter and receiver. For Hendrix, it was the fulfillment of a promise.

Heathkit Model HX-11 CW Transmitter

On America's 250th birthday, may we honour the past, celebrate the present, and look forward to a brighter tomorrow. Happy 250th Independence Day!

Suwannee Amateur Radio Club

Young Technicians Club Station

The July 1959 issue of Practical Wireless: The first of a new series written especially to aid the newcomer to the field of amateur radio transmission.

The Żywiec Amateur Radio Club SP9PSB

Skill. Service. Friendship. The enduring magic of amateur radio.

JA1CCA Antenna

St. Clair Amateur Radio Club, Field Day 1967

Inside the vehicle, radio operators spent long hours listening to the airwaves, searching for suspicious communications and gathering valuable intelligence. The tall vertical antenna mounted at the rear served a different role...

Field Day Wairarapa, circa 1973

There are sports played on fields. There are sports played on courts. There are sports played on oceans, mountains, and race tracks. Then there is amateur radio. Perhaps the greatest sport you've never watched... whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

OG2M (Earth-Moon-Earth) EME Antenna

JR3KQJ Antenna

Radio by David Gibson, G3JDG. Published in 1968 by Hodder & Stoughton as part of the Illustrated Teach Yourself series. Through Radio and his other writings, Gibson helped thousands of people understand and appreciate the magic of wireless communication... whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

June 1960 Field Day operation near Ochsenwang in Germany's Swabian Alps. At the operating position, DL3AO is working contacts using a Collins 75A-4 receiver and a Hallicrafters HT-32 transmitter. For many radio amateurs of the era, this was dream equipment.

Field Day in 1964

Engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and radio enthusiast Giovanni Geloso, I1JGM dedicated his life to advancing the art and science of wireless communications. In 1928, Geloso successfully demonstrated the wireless transmission of a low-resolution image... whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

Radio amateur Paul F Godley with homemade superheterodyne receiver, 1920.

DJ9FK Short Wave Listening (SWL), circa 1958

Rentschler demonstrating a "radio furnace" to melt metals in a vacuum.

Drake 2-B Communication Receiver (1961 - 1965)

The 42-foot portable radio telescope during its assembly and testing at the Green Bank Observatory, circa 1967

DK5QN Antenna

Chasing Signals from the Mountain Tops In an era when radio was still young and the world seemed much larger, amateur radio operators were already dreaming of operating from anywhere. This remarkable 1924 Dodge owned by the father of W6HYY carried more than passengers... whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

SP3DV Antenna

1970 Field Day - Ayre, Nebraska.

Collins 75A-4 Communications Receiver

Arizona Outlaws Contest Club

Don Schmidt at his home radio station in Strongsville, Ohio. From stations like this, radio amateurs could talk with people across the country and around the world. In late 1970s

"DX-Mobil" VW T3

Bangor and District Amateur Radio Society, circa 1980

The Ashtabula (Ohio) Amateur Radio Club, circa 1960

UT3XT Field Radio Operation

Harlow and District Amateur Radio Society - HADARS, circa 1960s

W4BUW Field Day, circa 1968

W5GFR Station. Fort Polk, La, circa 1969

US soldiers practicing Morse code at a signal office, Caserta, Italy, 1944

The Collins 30S-1 Linear Amplifier

Henry 3K-Classic-8877

Hammarlund HQ180

Eddstone & KW Collection - G3ZDQ Radio Shack, circa 2002

EA1BNF Antenna

Collins SC-101 Station Control, Built by Collins Radio Company during the 1950s

“Righi Oscillator” spark-gap oscillator design developed by Italian physicist Augusto Righi in the late 19th century, notable for its use of four metal spheres arranged as a dipole resonator and antenna system. Righi Oscillator 1895 Working replica by Mario Del Rosario I6DRZ