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 ...

Texans have always been fascinated with other forms of radio transmission, such as amateur and CB radio. I still have the old C.W. McCall song "Convoy" in my mind, a song that has a CB radio user ...

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This is the third in an occasional series about shortwave broadcasting stations in the United States and its territories, published in cooperation with the National Association of Shortwave ...

Numbers stations are shortwave stations that broadcast cryptic messages that are widely assumed to be used for communications between nation states and spies. But who’s to say it’s up to the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - 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 ...

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 ...

Russia's eerie "Doomsday Radio" whirred back into life for the first time in months on Monday - sparking wild speculation as a result. The UVB-76 shortwave station, which typically transmits nothing ...

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 ...