A historical profile recounts the life of Charles David Tandy, who led Tandy Corporation as chairman, president and CEO from its leathercraft roots to overseeing chains including Radio Shack, Tandy Leather and Pier 1 Imports. Born in 1918 in Brownsville, Texas, he began selling leather scraps as a child, served six years in the Navy, and later expanded his family's leather business into a national mail-order operation called Tandycraft after the war.
dfarq.homeip.net
· 2026-11-03
A Hacker News poster says they submitted a web form to the Cuyahoga Amateur Radio Club describing a large collection of radio equipment, including unused items, that must be cleared from a home or else discarded. They worry the submission has gone unanswered and are asking the community for a direct contact at the club to ensure the message is seen before the gear is thrown out.
news.ycombinator.com
· 2026-11-03
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is approaching a distance from Earth equal to one light-day, meaning radio signals will take a full 24 hours to travel one way between the probe and mission controllers. The milestone underscores how far the 1977-launched spacecraft has traveled into interstellar space.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-11-02
On a Quanta Magazine podcast, Harvard astrophysicist Shep Doeleman explains how he and roughly 250 researchers linked radio telescopes worldwide to form the Event Horizon Telescope, effectively turning Earth into a single giant instrument. That network produced the first-ever images of the supermassive black hole in galaxy M87, located about 55 million light-years away, and of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
quantamagazine.org
· 2026-10-30
Entravision, a Spanish-English broadcaster, has given an AI-generated on-air personality named Coyotec a growing role at its LA station José 97.5 FM, where it cohosts the show Al Aire y Sin Permiso with human host Geraldine Guzman. Since debuting in September 2025, Coyotec has posted on Instagram and spoken on-air about immigration enforcement, ICE raids, and immigrants' rights, including messages of support for affected families.
wired.com
· 2026-10-26
eBay has implemented new restrictions on listings for radio equipment sold on its platform, limiting certain types of devices from being sold. The company has exempted equipment designed exclusively for amateur, or ham, radio bands from these new restrictions.
arrl.org
· 2026-10-16
In isolated parts of Argentina, residents without reliable phone or internet access use AM radio stations to send and receive personal messages, from birthday greetings to news of births, illnesses, and lost livestock. Stations like LRA9 Radio Nacional in Esquel and LU20 Radio Chubut broadcast these messages, sometimes directing listeners to specific hilltops or other spots where cellphone reception is strong enough to follow up by phone. Some residents even rig makeshift pulley systems to hoist phones into treetops to catch a signal.
newyorker.com
· 2026-10-13
Lawmakers are pushing legislation that would mandate automakers include AM radio receivers in every new car sold, countering a trend of manufacturers removing the feature. Automakers have cited rising costs and technical issues, particularly interference from electric vehicle components, as reasons for dropping AM radio from new models. Supporters of the bill argue the technology remains critical for public safety and emergency broadcasts.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-12
A hardware project has repurposed the Gemtek W1700K Wi-Fi 7 router's MediaTek MT7996 radio chip as a wideband software-defined radio receiver, capturing raw 14-bit IQ data at up to 320 megasamples per second. Custom firmware, built without any MediaTek code, drives the radio from cold boot and streams captured data over 10 GbE to a Linux host, which renders a live spectrum and waterfall display in a browser.
github.com
· 2026-10-12
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to identify the galaxy that produced the farthest fast radio burst ever detected, first spotted in 2024 by the MeerKAT array. The source galaxy formed just 3 billion years after the Big Bang and is roughly 1,000 times smaller than galaxies linked to previously known bursts, which occurred billions of years later.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-09
Rockstar Games announced that Grand Theft Auto VI will include at least six in-game radio stations—Cocoteo FM, Back Country Radio, AfroBank FM, The Chamber 106.6, Flash FM, and Dirty South Classics—spanning genres from talk radio to classic rock. The company also confirmed the series' first-ever on-demand podcasts, which players can listen to while moving through the game's fictional Florida setting, Leonida. The game is available for preorder and is set to launch November 19th.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-08
The U.S. House passed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act last month, a bipartisan bill requiring automakers to include AM radio in new vehicles. The measure now goes to the Senate, where a companion bill has already drawn support, while a companion effort has gathered backing according to public records. Broadcasters like WGN-AM's Mary Sandberg Boyle back the bill, citing AM radio's role in emergency alerts, while the Alliance for Automotive Innovation opposes it.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-04
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