Numbers stations are mysterious, unsettling, and one of the strangest things you'll ever hear. They're shortwave radio stations that send coded messages to undercover spies all over the world—an odd ...

Sure, you can now listen to the major shortwave stations on your computer via the Internet, but what about when you are traveling or camping or just want to get away from the computer? You can turn to ...

Texans have always been fascinated with other forms of radio transmission, such as amateur and CB radio. I still have the old C.W. McCall song "Convoy" in my mind, a song that has a CB radio user ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The proliferation of Web-based radio stations should mean that a traveler with a modem and a laptop is never without up-to-the-minute news, conversation and music from home. But I found a major flaw ...

Washington, D.C. (CTV Network) — In a world of mobile phones, satellites and the internet, some old school technology is making a major comeback. The shortwave radio, used by spies for decades to send ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mark Koernke, the “Mark from Michigan” shortwave radio voice that fired up patriot-militia circles over an assortment of alleged government conspiracies, has been yanked from the airwaves. “The ...