Short Wave Radio Receivers

ARRL Continuing Education Online Course Registration
Registration remains open through Sunday, January 24, 2010, for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, February 5, 2010: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1; Antenna Modeling; Radio Frequency Interference; Antenna Design and Construction; Ham Radio (Technician) License Course; Propagation; Analog Electronics, and Digital Electronics.

Youth@HamRadio.Fun: A Bird’s Eye View
The mystery [...]

Ham Radio and Shortwave Radio Scanning 95

With the Grundig G6 Aviator at your side, youll always have great listening options. Tune in to AM, FM, aircraft band or shortwave frequencies easily with direct keypad entry. Use the multiple tuning features to quickly scan or browse stations. This portable radio only weighs about 7 ounces, so you can always have [...]

Last Surviving Crew Member of Kon-Tiki Expedition Passes Away
Knut Magne Haugland, LA3KY, of Norway, passed away on December 25. He was 92. Haugland was one of six men, who with Thor Heyerdahl in 1947, successfully crossed the Pacific Ocean in a 45 foot raft made of balsa wood and bamboo — named Kon-Tiki — to [...]

These are some of the smallest pocket shortwave radios in the world ….Runs on Two AA batteries ..

mysterious radio with usb modulation signal was going uo to 5/9

Surfin’: The Ghosts of Surfin’ Past
This week, revisit past installments of Surfin’ and the history of wireless communications.

Grundig G6 receiving low power aviation beacon “ME” in Chicago on 350 kHz using an inductively coupled 3 foot diameter loop antenna.

The K7RA Solar Update
Many of us are nearly giddy with joy over the recent steady increase in sunspot activity that seems long overdue. Average daily sunspot numbers rose more than 10 points this week compared to last — from 21.1 to 31.4! The monthly average daily sunspot numbers for September, October and November were 6.6, [...]

Shortwave broadcasting stations start their transmissions with a tune that they repeat over and over to give you time to tune them in. Although this is a major broadcaster in the world, it’s interval signal may not be easy to recognize depending upon where you live. The identity of the station is at the end [...]