This is KDDI Corp.’s Yamata Transmitting Station, the nation’s only facility broadcasting shortwave radio programs to overseas listeners. The station started broadcasts on Jan. 1, 1941.

In the last few years, the interest in listening to Deutsche Welle radio broadcasts via shortwave has decreased rapidly in North America. As a result Deutsche Welle decided to cease shortwave ...

Radio transmission in the 1.7-30 MHz frequency range worldwide. Like AM radio, shortwave signals reflect back from the ionosphere and follow the curvature of the earth. As a result, shortwave (SW ...

Shortwave radio is often used by the military, emergency services and industries that require extremely robust long-distance communication without external infrastructure. But the half-loop ...