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 ...

Numerous commenters have told the FCC that a proposal to “modernize” the shortwave band is a threat to amateur radio operators in the United States and possibly the end of ham radio as we know it. And ...

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 ...

On Christmas Eve, scientists at field stations across Antarctica sing carols to one another...via shortwave. On today's episode, the Short Wave... Kids can talk to Santa through Christmas Eve thanks ...

Russia's mysterious 'Doomsday Radio' UVB-76 has sent 15 coded messages in one week, an unusual event that has raised fears ...

Over the course of several days, UVB-76, better known as “The Buzzer,” transmitted an unusually high number of coded messages ...

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The second season of The Divided Dial, a series by WNYC's On the Media, explores the ideological battles playing out on shortwave radio, which can reach across continents. NINA MOINI: We've been ...

[Mikrowave1] had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the 1960s using germanium and silicon transistors. It also had plug-in coils you had to insert into sockets ...

Two years ago, eager to stymie Nazi infiltration in Latin America, the U. S. toyed with the notion of setting up a Federal short-wave station, abandoned the idea when private broadcasters, led by NBC, ...

For all their talk of cooperation and shared interests, the nations of the world put an awful lot of effort into spying on each other. All this espionage is an open secret, of course, but some of ...