Recent News: Shortwave Radios

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End times for doomsday-linked radio network?

It was through Family Radio – and its multitude of U.S. stations, satellite feeds, shortwave radio use, Internet reach and translation machine – that Camping's teachings and 2011 predictions spread across the globe. His doomsday message was bolstered...Read more

Police confiscate 10 motorbikes during MDC office raid

Police in Matebeleland South seized 10 motorbikes meant for election campaigning, during a raid on the MDC-T party office in Gwanda Thursday. MDC-T spokesman Douglas Mwonzora told SW Radio Africa that police said the vehicles were smuggled or...Read more

Africa: Digital Did Not Kill the Radio Star

Throughout today's modern digital world, short-wave radio is given short shrift. But in Zimbabwe, on the verge of holding presidential elections, police have staged a nation-wide crackdown, declaring possession of short-wave radios illegal, without any...Read more

Shortwave Radio Operator – Eternal Word Television Network, Inc. (Vandiver, AL)

GENERAL SUMMARY: Responsible for all electronic, electrical, and mechanical equipment including, but not limited to the generator, the transmitter, and all associated broadcast and production equipment required for normal day-to-day operations of WEWN...Read more

Independent Radio Broadcasters at Peril in Taiwan

RTI's plan to dismantle its substations looks like “some black box operation,” using shortwave radio as a bargaining chip in exchange for political interests on the other side of strait. Translation by John Wang. Written in English by Gisela Sommer...Read more

Puntland: 15 4x4s for local police and short-wave radio station

ROME, Italy, April 24, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Brand new vehicles and a fundamental instrument for radio communication to lead the population of Puntland toward a future of renewed development: a ceremony was held in Garowe, the...Read more

SW Radio Africa Scoops Two Gongs At ZAA Awards

SW Radio Africa won two awards at the annual Zimbabwe Achievers Awards ceremony in London at the weekend. The radio station, which has been broadcasting on shortwave from London to Zimbabwe since 2001, was voted best in the Media House of the...Read more

Student finds shortwave radio stardom

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A Bloomington High School South student is making a name for himself in amateur radio circles. Padraig Lysandrou has received the highest amateur radio license possible and has made the cover of one of the country's top ham...Read more