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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its simultaneous blocking of Western media outlets has renewed public interest in shortwave radio broadcasters.

"Shortwaves for Freedom" boosts shortwave radio broadcasts to Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and other parts of Eastern Europe.

A grassroots funding effort is underway to raise money to transmit Voice of America programming into Eastern Europe through shortwave radio, a more dated form of technology that can circumvent Russia’s crackdown on

USAGM’s Test of DRM Is “Coasting Along” VOA and OCB are involved in testing from Greenville facility Gary Koster, Gerhard Straub and Macon Dail at the Greenville, N.C., Transmitting Station. Photo: VOA A new post on the Voice of America public relations website provides an update about the ongoing test of Digital Radio Mondiale from a shortwave transmission site of the U.S. Agency for Global Media in North Carolina. It noted that a series of USAGM tests of the digital radio technology was launched in early 2020 with content targeting Cuba and Latin America. The article cites the experie...

Where wasn’t the presence of Phil Irwin felt in Rappahannock County? A constant of virtually all proceedings of the Rappahannock County community and government, cherished innkeeper of Caledonia Farm – 1812, founding member of the Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection, regional director of the Virginia Farm Bureau, committee member for both Rappahannock County Farmland Preservation and the Agricultural Forestal District, Rappahannock tourism advisory member — for 25 years chief of morning broadcasts for Voice of America (VOA) — Irwin was found dead Thursday at his working c...