NUMBERS STATIONS. Not a relic of the past. Intelligence agencies use shortwave to communicate with spies, agents and assets ...

A waveform file of “The Lincolnshire Poacher” numbers station broadcast. Credit: Lewis Bush, “Shadows of the State.” The notion that spy agencies are contacting spies using code broadcasts over ...

The ICF-SW7600GR made up for the fiddling somewhat by having the most solid feel of the six radios I tested and the clearest reception for shortwave broadcasts and local FM stations. Tuning can be ...

Right now, broadcasting across the airwaves around the world, are automated, anonymous shortwave AM radio stations that most governments won't acknowledge even exist, much less explain.

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 ...

which is much cheaper to use for distribution than shortwave broadcasting. Also, services such as the BBC and VOA are contracting with local AM and FM stations to carry their programming.

Hidden among the squelch and whine of the little used shortwave radio band, mysterious stations broadcast unbreakable code. Yosemite Sam threatens to blow the listener to smithereens before ...

For decades, shortwave radio enthusiasts have been stumbling upon mysterious stations that broadcast a looping noise, such as a nursery rhyme, occasionally punctuated by someone reading a string ...

The stations also broadcast marine storm warnings and Department of Defense messages. (iStock) If you tune a shortwave radio to 2.5, 5, 10 or 15 MHz, you can hear a little part of radio history ...

All of these can be modified or converted to receive the shortwave broadcast bands ... oscillator is the same frequency as the desired station that difference can be fed to an audio amplifier ...

shortwave stations like the BBC World Service are aimed at audiences from Senegal to Singapore. Both stations are broadcast from the same building. Public Domain/ US DoD If the "dead hand" system ...