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• Poland lost GPS on 63% of days this month — 2026-08-25
  Satellite navigation across the Baltic is failing at a scale that has stopped being an anomaly. What is jamming, what is spoofing, and why the second one is…
• The Buzzer is fifty years old and still nobody will say what it is for — 2026-07-02
  UVB-76 has been holding 4625 kHz since the 1970s. What is documented, what changed in 2024, and what the June 2026 activity spike does and does not tell us.
• Seventy-two seconds in 1977, and nothing since — 2026-04-20
  A radio telescope in Ohio recorded a signal so strong the astronomer circled it and wrote one word in the margin. It has never repeated, and last year somebody…
• Why submarines listen at 24 kHz — 2026-04-02
  Seawater eats radio, and it eats high frequencies fastest. That single fact explains a 1.8 megawatt transmitter in Maine, an antenna farm on thirteen masts,…
• North Korea hides its numbers station inside a radio programme — 2026-08-17
  V15 has no transmitter of its own. The coded digits are read inside Radio Pyongyang, on frequencies anyone can legally tune, which inverts the usual risk for…
• Some radio signals come back seconds later, and nobody knows why — 2026-08-11
  In 1927 a Norwegian engineer heard his own transmission return three seconds after he sent it. Three seconds is past the Moon. Almost a century later there is…
• Firedrake: you can find censored radio by listening for the music — 2026-08-05
  A one-hour loop of Chinese orchestral music, distributed by satellite and radiated on whatever frequency needs covering. It has no station identification,…
• Could a hobby radio network find a missing airliner? — 2026-07-30
  A claim that amateur radio propagation records can reconstruct the flight path of MH370 has produced a specific crash location. Most radio scientists say the…
• WWV is a clock for 59 minutes and an experiment for one — 2026-07-24
  The longest continuously broadcasting radio station in the world spends most of its time telling you what time it is. At minute 8 past the hour it does…
• What HAARP actually does, and the 85 kilometres it cannot reach — 2026-07-19
  Ionospheric heaters are real instruments doing real research. The claim that they steer hurricanes founders on a simple question of altitude, and on where the…
• The Lincolnshire Poacher played a folk tune for thirty years, then stopped — 2026-07-14
  E03 opened every transmission with two bars of an English folk song, repeated until it became one of the most recognisable sounds on shortwave. The tune was…
• A cartoon rabbit threatened shortwave listeners for four days — 2026-07-06
  In December 2004 four shortwave frequencies started carrying a 0.8-second data burst followed by a Warner Bros. voice clip, on a schedule accurate to the…
• Twenty minutes at dawn when the world opens up — 2026-06-29
  There is a band of twilight sweeping around the planet, and along it the low frequencies travel distances they cannot manage at any other hour. The window is…
• The US Air Force reads coded letters aloud all day, and anyone can listen — 2026-06-23
  HFGCS runs continuously on four shortwave frequencies, broadcasting Emergency Action Messages in the clear. The content is unbreakable, the schedule is not,…
• A machine from 1924 still transmits every Christmas Eve — 2026-06-16
  At Grimeton in Sweden there is a 200 kilowatt transmitter with no valves and no transistors. It is a spinning machine, it is the last one working anywhere, and…
• When the internet fails, everyone remembers shortwave — 2026-06-09
  The BBC brought back wartime shortwave broadcasts to Ukraine and Russia. The reason is arithmetic: jamming one spy is easy, jamming a country is an industrial…
• Two brothers in Turin said they heard cosmonauts dying — 2026-06-05
  From a disused bunker outside Turin, two Italian amateurs recorded what they said were Soviet cosmonauts dying in orbit. The tapes still circulate. The…
• You can bounce a signal off a shooting star — 2026-05-30
  A grain of sand burning up 100 km overhead leaves a column of ionised air behind it. For a fraction of a second that column is a mirror, and people have built…
• How to hear a numbers station tonight — 2026-05-26
  You do not need a licence, an antenna farm or even a radio. A practical guide to hearing The Buzzer, HM01 and the rest, starting from nothing.
• The county where Wi-Fi is against the law — 2026-05-19
  Thirteen thousand square miles of West Virginia are legally protected from radio noise so that one telescope can hear things a hundred million times fainter…