Ampegon Power Electronics highlights progress on the company’s third-generation solid-state shortwave transmitters, which it says will offer “significant advances in efficiency.” The company says this ...

The role of shortwave radio has been much debated by members of the U.S. international broadcasting community. Among those with a strong interest in the topic is George Woodard. I spoke with him about ...

A fully solid-state shortwave transmitter line with integrated DRM is being launched. Ampegon’s low power solid-state transmitter line ranges from 1.5 kW to 25 kW AM carrier power, and the company ...

RNZ went live on Thursday with its new Pacific shortwave transmitter, replacing its old one that dates to 1989. Pacific high commissioners and Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters met in RNZ House ...

From 1932 until long after the sun set on the British empire, the BBC World Service--with its sonorous and reassuring “This is London” at the top of each hour--was heard around the globe via shortwave ...

RNZ has powered down for the last time its 34-year-old shortwave Thompson transmitter, known as “Transmitter 1”, one of two shortwave transmitters that deliver analogue and digital radio broadcasts to ...

A true monster of a shortwave antenna has been standing near Moosbrunn south of Vienna since 1983. The curtain antenna weighs 320 tons, produces up to 500 kilowatts and has two towers, each 76 meters ...

The last shortwave transmitter in Switzerland is shutting down, bringing an end to radio broadcasts at swissinfo/Swiss Radio International (SRI). “For almost 70 years, shortwave has played a ...

The Federal Government has officially commenced the restoration of the Voice of Nigeria’s (VON) shortwave transmission, marking a significant milestone in the revitalisation of Nigeria’s broadcasting ...

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, on Tuesday, flagged off the contract for the restoration of the Voice of Nigeria’s shortwave transmission. The project, according ...

The federal government has commenced the restoration of the Voice of Nigeria (VON’s) shortwave transmission. The initiative is part of meaures to revitalise Nigeria’s broadcasting infrastructure. The ...