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 ...

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 ...

Shortwave radio has a charm all its own: part history, part mystery, and a whole lot of tech nostalgia. The Hallicrafters S-53A is a prime example of mid-century engineering, but when you get your ...

For more than four months, Hong Kong has been in the grips of a civil crisis. Protestors have taken to the streets to challenge the Hong Kong government’s growing acquiescence to Beijing while Chinese ...

The global trauma caused by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has spiked demand for shortwave radio service, much as it did during the 1991 Gulf War. Although broadcasters are shifting to the Internet in ...

Mark Koernke, the “Mark from Michigan” shortwave radio voice that fired up patriot-militia circles over an assortment of alleged government conspiracies, has been yanked from the airwaves. “The ...

The day of the Oklahoma City bombing, a bombshell was dropped at a York County shortwave radio station by a right-wing commentator whose tinkering over time had damaged the station’s transmitter, ...