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 ...

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 ...

The role of shortwave radio has been much debated by members of the U.S. international broadcasting community. Among those with a strong interest in the topic is George Woodard. I spoke with him about ...

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 ...

Kevin De Reus has lived in the same 24-kilometre radius his whole life. Born and raised in Iowa in the US, Kevin now calls his grandfather's farm — just 12 kilometres from where he grew up in central ...

Over the next few months, the producers of Here Be Monsters will be highlighting some of their favorite unusual, eerie and mysterious sounds. Here, producer Bethany Denton writes about what she ...

The ionosphere is of great importance to shortwave radio transmissions, since it allows radio waves to be refracted and reflected over the horizon, and it’s therefore unfortunate that the height and ...

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 ...