The FCC granted three new high-frequency international broadcast applications — known to most as the shortwave band — to U.S.

Amateur radio operators around the world will celebrate April 18 as World Amateur Radio Day commemorating the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) on that day in 1925.

Shortwave radio signals (3-30MHz) are highly susceptible to interference from power adapters, fluorescent or LED light sources, internet modems, routers and computers. The higher frequencies ...

[Sjef Verhoeven] still loves radio and enjoys the challenge of listening ... the device is versatile and can pick up shortwave as well as the usual broadcast bands, with the right configuration.

Jeff White used the term “rather brash.” White is general manager of WRMI Radio Miami International as well as secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Shortwave Broadcasters (NASB) and a 40 ...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the halt of Radio Free Asia’s shortwave services in Mandarin, Tibetan, and Lao ...

Its one truly international service — shortwave radio — has been cut back repeatedly to save money. To boost its signal to span the globe, shortwave requires enormous amounts of electricity ...

This is KDDI Corp.’s Yamata Transmitting Station, the nation’s only facility broadcasting shortwave radio programs to overseas listeners. The station started broadcasts on Jan. 1, 1941.

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 ...

A mysterious web of international shortwave radio towers once dominated the Tantramar marshlands near Sackville, New Brunswick. For almost 70 years the RCI shortwave towers broadcast around the world.

Radio transmission in the 1.7-30 MHz frequency range worldwide. Like AM radio, shortwave signals reflect back from the ionosphere and follow the curvature of the earth. As a result, shortwave (SW ...