Welcome to Tom's Designer Radios website. My name is Tom Kipgen. I am retired salesman. Now I like working in my shop building various radio and guitar projects.
To see my projects, click on the links on the upper left. I sell a variety of crystal sets, tube radios as well as some other neat stuff.
Along with my radio projects, I sell catswhisker detector stands and coil winders and brass tube plate caps.
Tom Kipgen's Designer Radios
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Have a look at the write up of my radios at Retro Thing!
My Latest Tube Radio Projects
See My 1625 Radio Orchard Picture
Shortwave Radio Twin 01A Radio
Chimppendale 1625 Radio Devil's Tower EM83
Devil's Twig Radio Oval 1625 Regen
Shortstack 1625 Magic On Stilts
Satellites 1625 Regen Mahogany Twin 1625
Mellow Magic Green Ears
Cathedral 1625 Radio King Tut's 1625 Tube Radio
PBW EM83 Radio Large Diameter Cathedral
It's a new year and what better way to celebrate is to offer for your amusement, pleasure (and purchase) some new Oklahomean made radios. The weather has been crummy, so I've been inside building these radios left and right. I love making these sets, and am really tickled when they work too!
My other radios can be viewed by following my tube radios main page.
My Newest Crystal Radio Projects
B1 Crystal Radio for 2013 Canned Ham Crystal Set (2013)
Wooden Crystal
Here are the first of my new radios for 2013. My B-1 Crystal radio , Canned Ham Crystal Set and my Wooden Crystal Radio.
Go ahead and have a look. I'm sure you will agree. But remember, these aren't falling off the assembly line in Shenzhen, but made uniquely special in Oklahoma, USA.
An Earlier Project
The LaserRadio
This Laser Radio I built on consignment for a gentleman in the Northeast. His inspiration came from the very first James Bond 007 movie from way back and he provided all the planned dimensions and hoped for features. After reviewing all his input I was able to explain what was possible and what was not and made suggestions for modifications as needed. The process required a good deal of communication as we worked through all of the details and the end results are just outstanding. Goto my LaserRadio page.
Publicity
See what Stan Horzepa at the ARRL wrote about my radios! Thank you! Our friends at BoingBoing.net discovered my radios too. My webmaster found this article from HackedGadgets.com too.