Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What are numbers stations? Numbers stations are mysterious, unsettling, and one of the strangest things you'll ever hear. They're ...

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 author is chairman of the High Frequency Coordination Conference, which is a non-governmental, non-profit association that manages and coordinates global databases of international shortwave ...

The regime is overmatched militarily, but still has tools for returning fire.

Saying it has received strong public support, the grassroots crowdfunding campaign Shortwaves for Freedom this week announced additional shortwave radio broadcasts to Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and ...

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 ...

Shortwave radio has a charm all its own: part history, part mystery, and a whole lot of tech nostalgia. The Hallicrafters S-53A is a prime example of mid-century engineering, but when you get your ...

Shortwave radio listeners around the world have reported hearing mystery broadcasts in Persian on a new 'numbers station' ...

Numbers stations - those ghostly shortwave broadcasts where synthetic voices read strings of digits into the void - have been sending one-way coded messages to intelligence agents since World War I.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Numbers stations are a mysterious phenomenon of shortwave radio dating back to the Cold War. The radio signals are secret messages ...