My real love sits glowing in the basement. I have a house full of computers -- I enjoy them and make a living with them -- but I've never recovered from an early love affair with shortwave radio.

A QSL Card from Radio Moscow probably got many 14-year-olds on government watch lists. (Public domain) Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple receiver, ...

[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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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 ...

The author is chairman of Digital Radio Mondiale. When is the last time you heard a shortwave radio transmission? And why should you put up with possible crackly audio and some interference when we ...

Does it make sense to resume shortwave (SW) radio broadcasts to Russia and Ukraine, decades after international SW broadcasters cut back their services and people turned to the internet for ...

Encompass Digital Media has completed “the world’s first broadcast of a digital shortwave school lesson with the transmission of interactive maths content from the U.K. to students in The Gambia — ...

A popular shortwave Russian radio station dubbed “UVB-76” has been an enigma for decades. But its recent messages have turned ...