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Waveguide Episodes

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    Back to Basics: Transmitting to the World

    How programmes are actually transmitted from the UK to around the world

  2. Back to Basics: Making World Service News

    Making the news: how is a World Service news bulletin put together?

  3. Back to Basics: How do Radio Signals Work?

    How do radio signals work? And how are signals transmitted around the world?

  4. Back to Basics: Operating a short wave Radio

    How to operate your new short wave radio and make the most of its available settings

  5. Back to Basics: Choosing a short wave Radio

    What to look for when you're choosing a short wave radio set

  6. How the Portable Radio started in a Saucepan

    Radio design and technology: from blue saucepans to transistors and RDS

  7. World Radio TV Handbook 1991

    The latest World Radio TV Handbook is indispensable for listeners and professionals alike

  8. World Service TV could start in Spring

    World Service television could start in spring, reports this 10th anniversary edition

  9. The Broadcasting Year: Review of 1990

    World Service's response to events such as the invasion of Kuwait and German reunification

  10. Why short wave Listeners need the Sun

    The Sun is 93 million miles away but solar activity controls short wave reception on Earth

  11. Radio waves: Look, no wires!

    Radio waves carry many non-verbal signals to and from men and machines

  12. World Service jammed by Iraq after Invasion of Kuwait

    Â鶹Éç World Service programming jammed in the Middle East at the start of the Gulf War

  13. Radio Frequencies are Key to the Mobile-phone Market

    Deregulation of radio frequencies has allowed rapid growth in mobile communications in UK

  14. Finding all Europe on your Dial

    'Dial-Search': one man's mission to help radio listeners

  15. World Radio TV Handbook 1990

    Why the 1990 World Radio TV Handbook has a new section for satellite broadcasters

  16. The Â鶹Éç gets 'the pips'

    Â鶹Éç takes over the radio time signal from the Royal Greenwich Observatory after 66 years

  17. Radio Tech Clinic

    Richard Lamley answers listeners' technical questions abour their radio sets

  18. W is for Waveband

    W is for 'waveband' in the Wave Guide Alphabet series

  19. Fax that sends Photographs by Phone

    New photo-fax machine transmits photographs by telephone

  20. Heading for a 'Solar Maximum'

    Sunspot and solar flare activity is approaching a very large 'solar maximum'

  21. What does that Acronym Mean?

    More letters in the Wave Guide Alphabet series: U and V

  22. Sun-Storm Warning for Radio Listeners

    Storm warning in the ionosphere for short wave listeners

  23. The Sun: Listening to Sunspots

    Listening to sunspots: last in series about our "local star" and how it affects radio

  24. The Sun: How it controls the invisible Reflector above the Earth

    How short wave radio depends on the ionosphere and the Sun

  25. Is this the end of Morse's dots and dashes?

    Has Morse code a future in the internet age?

  26. The Sun: Radio Telescopes unlock its Secrets

    How radio astronomy is helping to discover how the Sun works

  27. The Sun: The Power of Solar Radiation

    How radiation from our "local star", the Sun, affects short wave broadcasting on Earth

  28. The Sun: How it affects Radio on Earth

    The Sun and how solar activity affects radio broadcasting and reception on Earth

  29. 'We broadcast to the world, about the world' – John Tusa

    Â鶹Éç Radio Show in London, plus interview with John Tusa, managing director World Service

  30. Changing Seasons and Frequencies

    News about frequency changes

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