Numerous commenters have told the FCC that a proposal to “modernize” the shortwave band is a threat to amateur radio operators in the United States and possibly the end of ham radio as we know it. And ...

A new amateur radio project, Spectel, is bringing back vintage teletext transmissions as enthusiasts mark 100 years since the first shortwave transatlantic link between Canada and Somerset. The 1926 ...

A prior version of this story stated incorrectly that “the higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength, and the farther signals can travel.” It has been corrected as follows: “Such shortwave ...

Is there a shortwave radio revival taking place? If you never listened to shortwave and know nothing about the medium, it would be very easy to believe this. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a ...

“Whiskey, Five, Echo, X-Ray, India. GOTA Station Field Day in Lafayette, Louisiana. W5EXI, CQ, CQ.” Jess Gillion repeatedly called out the alphabet soup of words and acronyms over the short-wave radio ...

Washington, D.C. (CTV Network) — In a world of mobile phones, satellites and the internet, some old school technology is making a major comeback. The shortwave radio, used by spies for decades to send ...

An abiding memory for a teen fascinated by electronics and radio in the 1970s and 1980s is the proliferation of propaganda stations that covered the shortwave spectrum. Some of them were slightly ...

Ham radio operators are sounding the alarm over the latest threat to their beloved hobby—and this time, it is coming from Wall Street. A group of high-frequency trading firms is asking the Federal ...

[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 ...