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 ...

The winter update from the HFCC, the international body that coordinates shortwave radio frequencies, shows a significant ...

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 ...

“Whiskey, Five, Echo, X-Ray, India. GOTA Station Field Day in Lafayette, Louisiana. W5EXI, CQ, CQ.” Jess Gillion repeatedly called out the alphabet soup of words and acronyms over the short-wave radio ...

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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 ...