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 ...

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) ...

This commentary is an excerpt from the presentation “International Radio Continues to Depend on Shortwave” given by Dr. Graham Mytton, former BBC audience research officer and now consultant to VT ...

(click thumbnail)A beautiful RCA BTA-1R is freed after years entombed behind some remodeling. The transmitter is now at the home of a Pennsylvania ham who plans to put it on 160 m shortwave. Ever ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The uniqueness of shortwave radio is proving beneficial for reaching across the world at a time of war and WTWW’s radio “legends,” including one from Lubbock, are working to ...

[Mikrowave1] had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the 1960s using germanium and silicon transistors. It also had plug-in coils you had to insert into sockets ...

Does this even exist? Everything I can find online is either Windows or Linux. I want to listen to some numbers stations but don't want to fork out on a bunch of ham gear I'll use once and relegate to ...

The suits at Hack-a-Day reached out to SolderSmoke HQ and asked me to send in a few words about why their readers should take a fresh look at ham radio. Here goes: When you start looking into amateur ...

Around 300 enthusiasts, from students to longtime professionals, attended the 27th annual event at LIU Brookville Saturday.

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 ...