shortwave radio


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short′wave ra′dio


n.
a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
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"Don't Let Go" is pretty much exactly that scenario, replacing the magic shortwave radio of "Frequency" with a magic mobile phone.
LAHORE: It is just as well that the BBC has decided to expand its shortwave radio service in Kashmir to beat the communications blackout.
My small shortwave radio had already warned us that a powerful solar outburst was on its way to Earth.
"I had to buy a shortwave radio just to hear the football results.
That's why the Soviets put so much effort and expense into jamming shortwave radio signals and programming the kind I also produced for Radio Sweden International in the 1980s.
Sharing space on the bench with more expensive radios including my Grundig Field shortwave radio, the Icom A25N portable and some older ham radio gear, the Air Scan has decent build quality for its price point, plus it couldn't be easier to operate.
I have been a fan since first hearing John Peel play 'A New Face In Hell', around 1980, on his weekly BBC show, heard around the world on shortwave radio.
Eventually, two-way communications between students and teachers were conducted over shortwave radio until replaced by the Internet in 2009.
The shortwave station has transmitted Voice of America programs from Washington, through shortwave radio signals to audiences around the world, bringing them news, music, and special interest programs about the United States.
Britten was commissioned to compose incidental music for a dramatic ten episode, thirty minute series of weekly shortwave radio broadcasts titled An American in England.
Radio Dabanga is a shortwave radio station which serves the Darfur area of western Sudan.