Shortwave radio fans can relax: The world’s shortwave radio frequencies have been reallocated for summer and autumn 2005. This massive task is undertaken twice a year by the all-volunteer High ...

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 ...

Even before war began in the Persian Gulf, American troops in Saudi Arabia were hearing the propaganda broadcasts of “Baghdad Betty,” a female announcer on Iraqi Radio who warned soldiers their ...

MIAMI | A retired State Department officer and his wife who are accused of spying for Cuba appear to have avoided capture for 30 years because their communications with the Caribbean island were too ...

For much of the last century, shortwave radio was the only way to hear broadcasts from far away. Like many other listeners, producer David Goren fell in love with the sound of the shortwave bands.

SHORTWAVE radio, judging from some of the stories published since Oklahoma City, is one more shadowy cave filled with lunatics. Not so, say its defenders. More than 10% of U. S. homes have shortwave ...

Turn on the radio from anywhere in the U.S. and you'll likely hear one of two things: music or talk. And pretty much any commercial radio station sounds exactly like dozens or hundreds more around the ...

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 ...

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.

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