Texans have always been fascinated with other forms of radio transmission, such as amateur and CB radio. I still have the old C.W. McCall song "Convoy" in my mind, a song that has a CB radio user ...

For many years now, thousands of people around the world have whiled away hours hunched over electronics equipment chatting with each other, checking the latest news, sending each other images, and ...

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 ...

There are all kinds of shortwave radio stations in the world, but WBCQ seems unique. Allan Weiner at the foot of the rotatable antenna installed in 2018. Located in Monticello, Maine, WBCQ is an up-to ...

The ABC has defended the axing of its Northern Territory's long-distance radio service, despite calls from federal representatives to reverse the decision. This month the broadcaster announced its HF ...

Does this even exist? Everything I can find online is either Windows or Linux. I want to listen to some numbers stations but don't want to fork out on a bunch of ham gear I'll use once and relegate to ...

The suits at Hack-a-Day reached out to SolderSmoke HQ and asked me to send in a few words about why their readers should take a fresh look at ham radio. Here goes: When you start looking into amateur ...

Ham radio operator Frank Krizan of Texas, who spends his summers in Scarborough, performs "Hunt and Pounce," a method of scanning the radio band for stations waiting for a turn to call them, during ...