secret radio

Hidden broadcast device

Secret radio refers to clandestine broadcasting equipment or stations operated covertly, typically during wartime or under authoritarian regimes.

Resistance fighters used secret radios to communicate with allies or broadcast banned information: The underground maintained a secret radio to receive instructions from London.

The term evokes espionage, hidden transmitters, and coded messages.

Related

freedom fighters · transmitter · shortwave · frequency · static · coded · coded message · wartime · whisper · pirate · hidden · dead drop · antenna · crackling · tuning · dial · dial tone · espionage

Opposites
legitimacy and authorization

secret radiostate radio

Government-operated broadcast network

public broadcasting · national broadcaster · BBC · commercial radio · NPR

visibility and openness

secret radiopublic radio

Noncommercial broadcast service

public address system · broadcast network

institutional affiliation

secret radiostate broadcaster

Government-run media organization

network affiliate · mainstream media · Voice of America · Radio Free Europe

Family

secret, radio, secrets, secretly, secrecy, secretive, secretively, secretiveness, radios

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G