Collaborate Disseminate
Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple receiver, you could listen to the world. Some of it, of course, was entertainment, and …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Is Shortwave on Life Support?
[Mikrowave1] had a Unelco shortwave receiver as a kid. This was a typical simple radio for the 1960s using germanium and silicon transistors. It also had plug-in coils you had …read more Continue reading A Nostalgic Look at a Kid’s Shortwave Resistor
Watch out, Baofeng; there’s a new kid on the cheap handy talkie market, and judging by this hardware and firmware upgrade to the Quansheng UV-K5, the radio’s hackability is going …read more Continue reading Open HT Surgery Gives Cheap Transceiver All-Band Capabilities
[Dan Robinson] picked up a shortwave receiver known as the “stressless” receiver kit. We aren’t sure if the stress is from building a more complicated kit or operating a more …read more Continue reading Stressless Shortwave Reviewed
Like many people [Dan Greenall] spent a lot of time in the 1970s listening to shortwave radio. While you often think of that as a hobby involving listening to broadcast …read more Continue reading Mystery Signal! Are You Ready for Your Mystery Signal?
Before the Internet, if you wanted to hear news from around the world, you probably bought a shortwave receiver. In the golden age of world band radio, there was a …read more Continue reading A Classic Shortwave Radio Restored
For all their talk of cooperation and shared interests, the nations of the world put an awful lot of effort into spying on each other. All this espionage is an …read more Continue reading It’s Numbers All The Way Down With This Tape Measure Number Station Antenna
One of the best ways to learn about radios is to build your own, even in the age of cheap SDR dongles. [Aniss Oulhaci] demonstrates this with a simple HF …read more Continue reading Simple Breadboard SDR For Shortwave
In the old days, a shortwave radio was a major desk fixture. These days, you can get truly diminutive radios. However, most of them only have AM capability (that is, …read more Continue reading SSB in Your Pocket
An abiding memory for a teen fascinated by electronics and radio in the 1970s and 1980s is the proliferation of propaganda stations that covered the shortwave spectrum. Some of them …read more Continue reading Owning A ShortWave Radio Is Once Again A Subversive Activity