Portable radios can be a firefighter’s lifeline as long as planning and preparation have gone into it. When I was a captain I helped to bring several fire departments into our regional 911 center.

Meet the Stream 219 and Blutune 7, which have manual bass and treble controls ...

Portable radios can be used in a number of different ways. Not only are they great for listening to the radio, but some even have Bluetooth capabilities or long-range reception. The latter, in ...

Which small radio should you buy? The world is full of ways to listen to music, radio shows and podcasts these days. But when there’s no Wi-Fi signal available, you might be glad to have a more ...

Since the 1970s, the portable radio has been a vital tool on incident scenes. Unfortunately, the extreme physical environment that’s encountered by firefighting, hazmat and technical rescue punishes ...

There’s something magical about the clunk of a heavy 1950s portable radio – the solid thunk of Bakelite, the warm hum of tubes glowing to life. This is exactly why [Ken’s Lab] took on the restoration ...

An AM or FM radio that can be easily carried. In 1954, the first truly portable radio was the TR-1 because it was the first radio to use transistors. All other radios at the time used tubes and were ...