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Based in Bowmanville, Ontario, originally VE9GW, founded by Gooderham and Worts as a relay of CKGW Toronto. Leased by the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission in 1933 along with CKGW, and renamed CRCX. Both stations purchased by the CBC in 1937. CKGW was renamed CBL and remains on the air and online as CBL-FM.
CBS used shortwave to support its Latin American international network, which consisted of 64 stations located in 18 countries and GE's KGEI opened in San Francisco in 1939, transmitting to Asia. [16] [17] [18] On November 1, 1942, all 14 private U.S. shortwave stations ended commercial operations and were leased to the Voice of America. [19]
Shortwave listening, or SWLing, is the hobby of listening to shortwave radio broadcasts located on frequencies between 1700 kHz and 30 MHz (30 000 kHz). [1] Listeners range from casual users seeking international news and entertainment programming, to hobbyists immersed in the technical aspects of long-distance radio reception and sending and ...
WMLK. WNYW (shortwave) World Harvest Radio International. WRMI. WRNO (shortwave) WSC (radio station) WTWW. WWCR. WWRB.
Grundig Satellit 400 solid-state, digital shortwave receiver, c. 1986 [1]. Shortwave radio is radio transmission using radio frequencies in the shortwave bands (SW). There is no official definition of the band range, but it always includes all of the high frequency band (HF), which extends from 3 to 30 MHz (100 (exactly 99.930819333) to 10 (exactly 9.9930819333) meters); above the medium ...
radiohc.cu. Radio Havana Cuba ( Spanish: Radio Habana Cuba, RHC) is the official government-run international broadcasting station of Cuba. It can be heard in many parts of the world, including the United States, on shortwave frequencies. [1] [2] Radio Havana Cuba, along with Radio Rebelde, Cubavision Television, and other Cuban radio and ...
A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries. [1] Most identified stations use speech synthesis to vocalize numbers, although digital modes such as phase-shift keying and frequency-shift keying , as well ...
Shortwave (HF radio) is used by transoceanic aircraft for communications with air-traffic control centers out of VHF radio range. Most countries with HF citizens'-band allocations use 40 or 80 channels between approximately 26.5 MHz and 27.9 MHz, in 10 kHz steps. Due to antenna-length requirements and the band's long-distance propagation ...