In the streaming era it’s easy to forget that there’s still a lot of stuff being broadcast over the radio for anyone who cares enough to dial in their receiver. Give me an antenna big enough and a ...

Like many of you, I attribute my career in electronics and wireless design to shortwave listening (SWL) and amateur radio. My father gave me an old S-38 Hallicrafters receiver when I was in junior ...

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 ...

As a long-time RW contributor (my first article was in June 1990) and even longer-time shortwave radio fan and broadcaster (Radio Canada International, HCJB in Ecuador, radioEARTH, and Monitor Radio; ...

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 ...

Another shortwave radio under $100 — just what the world needs, right? Well, in this case it just might be. Eton’s Grundig Yacht Boy 550PE pulls in the stations and sounds really good doing so.