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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes, late at night when the rest of the house is asleep, I’ll go down to the basement and settle into a chair that has seen better days. Then I flip on a master switch, and seconds later I start ...

RNZ has powered down for the last time its 34-year-old shortwave Thompson transmitter, known as “Transmitter 1”, one of two shortwave transmitters that deliver analogue and digital radio broadcasts to ...

An international transmitting station on the Shropshire-Herefordshire border is marking its 80th birthday. Woofferton has been on-air since October 1943, when the BBC's international services were ...

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 ...

The transmitter for the broadcast was set up at Greenwich in Connecticut Radio enthusiasts have recreated the first ever trans-Atlantic shortwave broadcast - 95 years after it connected Ardrossan and ...

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, on Tuesday, flagged off the contract for the restoration of the Voice of Nigeria’s shortwave transmission. The project, according ...

Bill Steele is a collector of odd things. A year ago, for example, he bought the site of the last double hanging in New Brunswick. His latest purchase is less morbid but also a rare find: a massive ...