There is a new breed of RF receivers known as software-defined radios, and they are revolutionizing the way in which people listen to shortwave (SW) radio, or indeed any form of radio broadcast. SDRs ...

A long-ago news editor at The Ledger said his family lived "so far back in the hills of West Virginia that we didn't get the Grand Ole Opry until Tuesday." That distance is surely a lot of axle ...

[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 ...

Often, third-party apps exist to fill in gaps left by developers. After all, Apple and Google make a lot of apps, and need to balance both the feature sets of those apps with their ability to be used ...

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 ...

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 ...

Encompass Digital Media has completed “the world’s first broadcast of a digital shortwave school lesson with the transmission of interactive maths content from the U.K. to students in The Gambia — ...

When I was a kid I used to grab my dad's shortwave radio and lie in bed at night flipping through stations for hours. I'd listen to Soviet broadcasts during the cold war, not having a clue what they ...