Shortwave radio fans can relax: The world’s shortwave radio frequencies have been reallocated for summer and autumn 2005. This massive task is undertaken twice a year by the all-volunteer High ...

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 ...

Sometimes, late at night when the rest of the house is asleep, I’ll go down to the basement and settle into a chair that has seen better days. Then I flip on a master switch, and seconds later I start ...

Even before war began in the Persian Gulf, American troops in Saudi Arabia were hearing the propaganda broadcasts of “Baghdad Betty,” a female announcer on Iraqi Radio who warned soldiers their ...

In Kabul, families huddle around a shortwave radio, listening to a foreign voice transmitting from an EC-130 aircraft circling the city. The broadcast comes in loud and clear. The Taliban is unable to ...

MIAMI | A retired State Department officer and his wife who are accused of spying for Cuba appear to have avoided capture for 30 years because their communications with the Caribbean island were too ...

Another shortwave radio under $100 — just what the world needs, right? Well, in this case it just might be. Eton’s Grundig Yacht Boy 550PE pulls in the stations and sounds really good doing so.

SHORTWAVE radio, judging from some of the stories published since Oklahoma City, is one more shadowy cave filled with lunatics. Not so, say its defenders. More than 10% of U. S. homes have shortwave ...

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 not a phone; it's a shortwave ...

[Sjef Verhoeven] still loves radio and enjoys the challenge of listening to radio signals from far away. He wanted to build his own radio and turned to the TEF6686 chip, a device often found in car ...