Numbers stations are mysterious, unsettling, and one of the strangest things you'll ever hear. They're shortwave radio stations that send coded messages to undercover spies all over the world—an odd ...

Sure, you can now listen to the major shortwave stations on your computer via the Internet, but what about when you are traveling or camping or just want to get away from the computer? You can turn to ...

The Voice of America is shuttering its Robert E. Kamosa Transmitting Station in the Northern Mariana Islands. The move was reported by local media in the U.S. Pacific territory based upon a letter ...

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.

The proliferation of Web-based radio stations should mean that a traveler with a modem and a laptop is never without up-to-the-minute news, conversation and music from home. But I found a major flaw ...

The FCC granted two new CPs and one new license in the high-frequency international broadcast band — known to most as the shortwave band — to U.S. operators in January. The two CPs granted in Illinois ...

Somewhere on a lonely mountaintop on a starry night, or maybe in an apartment on a bustling city block, someone is channeling the whole world onto a mobile device. It's not a phone; it's a shortwave ...

Sometimes, late at night when the rest of the house is asleep, I’ll go down to the basement and settle into a chair that has seen better days. Then I flip on a master switch, and seconds later I start ...

Kevin De Reus has lived in the same 24-kilometre radius his whole life. Born and raised in Iowa in the US, Kevin now calls his grandfather's farm — just 12 kilometres from where he grew up in central ...

“MDZhB” has been broadcasting since 1982. No one knows why. BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you navigate the current pandemic, but we know that’s not all you want to ...