Once the primary transmission medium for the BBC World Service, Voice of America and Radio Moscow, the shortwave radio bands — 1,800 to 30,000 kHz — are becoming less important to the foreign policy ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) - A massive shortwave radio antenna sits in a cow pasture north of Lake Okeechobee in Central Florida. "We have 14, 100,000-watt transmitters and 23 antennas beaming to all parts of ...

Digital shortwave radio is no dream: It exists today. Right now, foreign-service broadcasters in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceana and the Americas are providing regular digital radio broadcasts over ...

There’s actually a very specific point I developed an interest in shortwave radio. I was 13 years old. I was at a family barbecue with my grandfather and a bunch of other family members. I was closest ...

From 1932 until long after the sun set on the British empire, the BBC World Service--with its sonorous and reassuring “This is London” at the top of each hour--was heard around the globe via shortwave ...

(RSF/IFEX) – In a letter to Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Emma Wuor, RSF protested the decision to bar Radio Veritas from broadcasting on short wave radio. “We ask that you repeal this ...

TWIDDLE the dial of a short-wave radio and you never know what you will get. Through the hiss of static you may hear Cuban propaganda, football from Brazil or Chinese opera. Unlike other radio ...

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When I was a kid I used to grab my dad's shortwave radio and lie in bed at night flipping through stations for hours. I'd listen to Soviet broadcasts during the cold war, not having a clue what they ...

TL;DR: Tune into broadcasts from all around the world with this top-rated shortwave radio on sale for 40% off. Shortwave radios may seem like a relic from the past, but it's still worth having one ...

As long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by shortwave radio. Radio from around the world! Spy stations! Morse code! Random bits of buzzy static! <BR><BR>When I was a kid, I'd spend hours ...

There are a lot of radio options in the U.S., but shortwave radio (SW) is a big deal globally. It's no surprise, then, that SW is going digital. Like many of you, I attribute my career in electronics ...