[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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here is another USB gadget from Thanko, which fits well into their range of strange gadgets, the Thanko USB Shortwave AM/FM Radio. According to Thanko, this is the first Shortwave USB radio, and it ...

TL;DR: Tune into broadcasts from all around the world with this top-rated shortwave radio on sale for 40% off. Shortwave radios may seem like a relic from the past, but it's still worth having one ...

The radio is filled with great songs, conversations, and adventures to this day. While it may not be as prominent throughout popular culture as it once was, radios still offer people a wide range of ...

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 ...

As a communications blackout continues in Kashmir, the BBC is using one of the only ways to reach listeners in the Indian-controlled state: shortwave radio. The BBC is extending its Hindi radio output ...

For many years now, thousands of people around the world have whiled away hours hunched over electronics equipment chatting with each other, checking the latest news, sending each other images, 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 ...