Numbers stations are a mysterious phenomenon of shortwave radio dating back to the Cold War. The radio signals are secret messages sent by intelligence agencies to undercover spies all over the world, ...

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Washington, D.C. (CTV Network) — In a world of mobile phones, satellites and the internet, some old school technology is making a major comeback. The shortwave radio, used by spies for decades to send ...

The second season of The Divided Dial, a series by WNYC's On the Media, explores the ideological battles playing out on shortwave radio, which can reach across continents. NINA MOINI: We've been ...

Over the course of several days, UVB-76, better known as “The Buzzer,” transmitted an unusually high number of coded messages, including clusters of words, strings of numbers, bursts of Morse code and ...

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Russia's mysterious 'Doomsday Radio' UVB-76 has sent 15 coded messages in one week, an unusual event that has raised fears ...

Number stations are, apparently, shortwave radio stations that intermittently broadcast random series of numbers: a Cold War communication system that still lingers. Number Stations is an album by ...

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Last Saturday, more than 150 listeners across the U.S., Italy, France and Japan huddled by their radios to decipher a series of Morse Code transmitted by the Maritime Radio Historical Society. MRHS ...