Radios
Retro radios
Do you prefer to listen to the radio all day long? Every radio fanatic will certainly find a suitable radio for listening to his favorite radio station in our extensive range. In our webshop you will find a large selection of retro radios, which take you to the time when the radio was one of the few media that people had in the house. Yet the radios in terms of technology are completely up to date, because with many models you can even receive digital radio stations via DAB +. Go back in time with one of the retro radios from our range.
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Brief history of the radio
The first radio station was founded in 1897 on the English coast near Wright. The Italian Guglielmo Marconi could not do what he wanted in Italy and moved to England to continue his experiments. Here he founded the first radio station in the world. The first Dutch radio station was founded in 1919. In the beginning only Morse signals were transmitted via the radio, but with the invention of the electron tube in 1906 it became possible to broadcast real sounds. After the invention of the transistor in 1947, many smaller receivers could be built in, making the radio more useful and energy-efficient.
The difference between AM, FM and DAB +
A radio uses a carrier to receive a radio signal. The most common carriers are AM, FM and DAB +. But what exactly is the difference between these three? The AM signal comes from the time of the first radios and is an abbreviation of amplitude modulation. Amplitude modulation is the earliest way to achieve sound transmission. The signal is transmitted by having the amplitude of the carrier wave vary, in proportion to the amplitude of the sound signal to be transmitted. Because this technique is quite a disturbance feeling, people started experimenting with frequency modulation (FM). Use is made of small modulations in the wavelength (the frequency) to send and receive a source signal. With FM, the amplitude of the signal remains constant, but the frequency varies in the rhythm of the sound to be transmitted. With this technique the sound quality is better than with AM. DAB + stands for Digital Audio Broadcasting. Through this digital technique, interference-free reception is possible and even more channels can be received.