The Goliath Transmitter
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2019
Communication with submarines is difficult because radio waves do not easily travel through salt water. The obvious solution is to surface ...
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People Once Downloaded Games From The Radio
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 6, 2019
The year 1977 was an important year in the history of home computing. That year, the world’s first microprocessor-driven personal computer ...
WLW: The 500 Kilowatt Super Station
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 27, 2019
On most nights, during the 1930s, the airwaves over North America were dominated by a single radio station called WLW. Transmitting at a pow...
The Russian Woodpecker
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 29, 2017
Anyone who listened to shortwave radio or was a ham radio operator from the mid 1970s to the late 1980s will be familiar with a sharp, repet...
The Secret World of Number Stations
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 9, 2017
Back in the days of Cold War espionage, foreign intelligence agencies used to communicate with agents on the field via shortwave radio. Radi...
Zona del Silencio: The Urban Legend of The Zone of Silence
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 16, 2015
Deep in the desert in northern Mexico, between the states of Durango, Chihuahua and Coahuila, is an area known as zona del silencio or the ...
Green Bank: The Town With No Cell Phones, Wi-Fi or Radio
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 12, 2015
Green Bank, in Pocahontas County in West Virginia, the United States, is possibly one of the quietest residential places on earth. There is ...
