Shortwave radio has a charm all its own: part history, part mystery, and a whole lot of tech nostalgia. The Hallicrafters S-53A is a prime example of mid-century engineering, but when you get your ...

In this letter to the editor, the author comments on Carter Ross’ popular story “VOA Is Shuttering Its Marianas Shortwave Site.” Radio World welcomes letters to the editor on this or any story. Email ...

One of the more unusual facilities featured in our recent Radio World ebook about interesting RF plants is at WBCQ. It uses what is believed to be the only rotatable shortwave antenna in North America ...

NEW YORK, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Somewhere on a lonely mountaintop on a starry night, or maybe in an apartment on a bustling city block, someone is channeling the whole world onto a mobile device. It's ...

OWI pressure on the 14 short-wave stations in the U.S. was fast becoming a bear hug last week. At the war’s start, the Nazis had 68 short-wave stations; the Axis-in-Europe now controls an estimated ...

On Christmas Eve, scientists at field stations across Antarctica sing carols to one another...via shortwave. On today's episode, the Short Wave podcast explores shortwave radio. We speak with space ...

This is one of the coolest things I’ve learned recently: Foreign intelligence agencies still use good ol’ radio to share top secrets. Even with all the powerful tech at their fingertips, radio use in ...

Over the course of several days, UVB-76, better known as “The Buzzer,” transmitted an unusually high number of coded messages, including clusters of words, strings of numbers, bursts of Morse code and ...

Russia's eerie "Doomsday Radio" whirred back into life for the first time in months on Monday - sparking wild speculation as a result. The UVB-76 shortwave station, which typically transmits nothing ...