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 ...

One thing has stayed with the James Bond movie franchise through the decades: Mr. Bond always has the most wonderful of gadgets. Be it handheld, car-based, or otherwise, there’s always something to ...

Washington, D.C. (CTV Network) — In a world of mobile phones, satellites and the internet, some old school technology is making a major comeback. The shortwave radio, used by spies for decades to send ...

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 Buzzer, also known as UVB-76 or UZB-76, has been a constant companion to anyone with a shortwave radio tuned to 4625 kHz. However, [Ringway Manchester] notes that there is now a second buzzer ...

There’s no place like Chicago. Situated on the western edge of Lake Michigan, it is one of the largest cities in the United States. Its greater metro area — estimated at 10 million people or so — ...

Shortly after US president Donald Trump hung up a call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin this spring, an obscure shortwave radio channel, broadcasting from a military base somewhere in Russia, sprang to ...

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.

A North Korean guard uses binoculars as he stands in front of the PanmunGak building in the truce village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas on September 25, 2013.

This fallen tower is part of a 44-degree rhomboid antenna that broadcasts to Europe. The vast Okeechobee, Fla., antenna farm of privately-owned WRMI, which transmits programming to the world via ...