Shortwave Scatter

Spent a week in Berlin this summer. The German capital is one of my favourite cities with good food, friendly people, and always a lot of si...

On Good Friday 1974 , members of a Marxist guerrilla group in Córdoba, Argentina barged into the home of a US amateur radio operator and DXe...

I am a bit upset -- not only just because Passport to World Band Radio has bitten the dust and the Pass-band website will be closing down in...

On October 23 , I was invited to participate in the current affairs program Otros acentos (Other accents) on Radio Exterior de España, which...

P re-printed reception report forms, calendars and stations magazines were the best gifts a DXer could receive along with a QSL card -- some...

O ne of the most popular stations transmitting from the Eastern Bloc during the 1970s and 1980s was Radio Berlin International, the Voice of...

The Voice of Russia came to Madrid on April 23 to pay recognition to a group of Spanish Civil War (1936-39) exiles who helped put together w...

You may remember her when she hosted Radio France International's English service to Africa. She delivered the news and sometimes anch...

With the abundance of cheaper shortwave receivers on the market, audio has been compromised in favor of price. There are, by far, some rece...

Many of my DXer friends across the pond frequently ask me about Radio Pridnestrovie (PMR) broadcasts in English. It is almost impossible to...

Editor's note: This first appeared in my madrid kid blog on January 14, 2006. Everywhere you turn, you hear gripes from shortwave liste...

Editor's note: This first appeared in my madrid kid blog on June 14, 2006. Just days after dictator Augusto Pinochet inaugurated the pow...

Editor's note: This first appeared in my madrid kid blog on May 17, 2006. Except for a brief mention here and there, shortwave themes se...

Editor's note: This first appeared in my madrid kid blog on October 13, 2005. Much has been posted about the Sony ICF-77 including in a ...