The first commercial radio station KDKA made its debut on Nov. 2, 1920 when it aired the presidential election that year.  After techn...

Photo : Smithsonian Institution "Three Sisters" - Towers at Radio Arlington outside Washington, D.C. Photo : enginee...

Chief Operator Willy Speck in the radio room of the zeppelin Hindenburg in photo  courtesy of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmBH Archive. ...

On Nov. 11, 1928, the  U.S. implemented  General Order 40 , classifying AM allocations as local, regional or clear channel. Radio fans r...

News of the disaster was sent by wireless Titantic's SOS as copied by SS Birma Photo of Titanic wireless station ...

In the 1920's, EKKO stamps were a staple of the DX hobby. Radio stations awarded EKKO stamps in exchange for reception reports ...

Photo: Glenn Hauser's World of Radio Radio Station "Peace and Progress" broadcast from the Soviet Union during the Col...

Hugo Gernsback Short Wave Craft was one of a stable of magazines published by  Hugo Gernsback , who made significant cont...

The little county roared on 41 meters. Radio Tirana, from the capital of Albania, was a major player in international shortwave r...

The AT&T High Seas Service operated a ship-to-shore HF radio network consisting of stations WOO in New Jersey, WOM in Florida...

Pirate station "Radio Caroline" went on the air in March 1964. It was anchored in waters off the United Kingdom. The ...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower broadcasts from the Voice of America on its fifteenth anniversary in February 1957. VOA - the official govern...

Iva Ikuko Toguri D'Aquino , an American, was the woman most identified with the moniker " Tokyo Rose " - the name given to an...

Photo : Doug Garlinger In 1939, Australia's prime minister, Robert Menzies, inaugurated the shortwave service at the Australian Broadcas...

Your editor listened to Radio Moscow on his Lafayette receiver Moscow calling. Radio Moscow started b eaming its English Serv...

Photos : Radio Prague International shortwave broadcasts from Prague went on the air on Aug. 31, 1936 from the government telegraph office. ...

Radio RSA - the Voice of South Africa - went on the air in 1966 and signed off at the end of the apartheid era in 1992. ``Radio RSA broadcas...

In May 1920, WWV went on the air from Washington, D.C., transmitting time interval signals. It moved to Fort Collins, Colorado, on Dec. 1,...