These shortwave radio stations are used to maintain almost untraceable communications when the internet is down. Cuba has the ...

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 ...

The mysterious Persian-language transmission began about 12 hours after the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran. It was jammed five days later. Is it a coded message for US agents in ...

The station — first spotted by short-wave trackers who christened it V32 — is the first to have been identified broadcasting in Farsi in a quarter of a century. One briefly went live during the US ...

Fig. 1: A page from the author’s SWL Logbook from 1992 showing the date, time, frequency and partial transcript of a numbers station transmission. In the early 1990s, at the end of the Cold War and ...

What it’s about: Some time after World War II (if not earlier), shortwave radio broadcasts started appearing with no obvious purpose. A synthesized voice, usually female-sounding, would read out a ...

In the shadowy corners of the shortwave radio spectrum, you can often find mysterious mechanical voices counting off endless strings of numbers -- in English, Czech, Russian and German … even Morse ...

There are two kinds of dedicated radio listeners. Most are those who listen regularly to their FM or AM station of choice, or to a station that only broadcasts on the internet. The rest are dedicated ...

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 ...