What also ended up in the museum is the shortwave. Anyone who wanted to listen to international radio in the past had to have a shortwave receiver. That is also a thing of the past today.

A QSL Card from Radio Moscow probably got many 14-year-olds on government watch lists. (Public domain) Between World War II and Y2K, shortwave listening was quite an education. With a simple ...

In the last few years, the interest in listening to Deutsche Welle radio broadcasts via shortwave has decreased ... in North America take advantage of live streams, podcasts and on-demand archives ...