Sentences with phrase «radio transmitter»

A radio transmitter is a device that sends out signals that can be picked up by a radio receiver. It is like a messenger that sends information through the air using radio waves. Full definition
One cell displays a pedestal holding a handmade radio transmitter hidden inside the carved - out pages of a book.
Scientists have captured wolverines and let them go with radio transmitters attached.
In view of these circumstances, which should be common to and deducible by all the civilizations in our galaxy, it seems to us quite possible that one - way radio messages are being beamed at the earth at this moment by radio transmitters on planets in orbit around other stars.
For information on how to establish a «Marine - Only» NOAA Weather Radio transmitter in your area, contact the National Weather Service.
Most of the animals go into creeks with radio transmitters attached to their backs so they can be relocated and tracked.
Several NOAA Weather Radio transmitters operate as «Marine - Only», broadcasting marine information on a more rapid cycle than is possible with «All - Hazard» transmitters.
The world of radio transmitters is getting ever smaller in size — and bigger in scope.
The pair had been fitted with radio transmitters by conservationists and had wintered in the area the previous two years, MacKenzie said.
Comprised of a cluster of 13 short - range FM radio transmitters installed on Russell Street from Mack to Gratiot Avenues, it is a drive - thru audio collage, heard only with an FM radio, of broadcasts of each of the 13 tracks from New Earth simultaneously.
Using radio transmitters on tiny circuit boards or USB drives, the NSA can gain access to computers not connected to the internet.
Perform additional duties in small stations, such as production, music director, operating radio transmitter or writing advertising copy...
The first optical storage techniques — which would later create the compact disc — were developed in 1965, but data transfer was still agonizingly slow: Mariner 4 radioed these pictures over 134 million miles with a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter at the rate of 81/3 bits per second.
To expand NOAA Weather Radio coverage in the State of Alaska, the National Weather Service (NWS) and the U.S. Coast Guard have partnered to establish a network of low - power five - watt NOAA Weather Radio transmitters at 24 USCG «high» sites located from the Dixon Entrance to Bristol Bay.
One attack they label «low difficulty» is a «ground station flood denial»: jamming an ADS - B ground receiver mast (like a cellphone mast) by placing a low - power radio transmitter near it.
They released the bats at 01:00 AM — when no polarisation is visible — and followed the direction they set off in using small radio transmitters attached to their backs.
Piran White and his colleagues at Bristol captured 11 foxes from seven family groups and fitted them with collars carrying radio transmitters.
A young male with an implanted radio transmitter, known as M56, took off from northwestern Wyoming in April 2009 and arrived in northern Colorado in June, the first wolverine detected in Colorado in perhaps 90 years.
This year, we're gluing radio transmitters onto a few lizards so we can track where they burrow for the winter.
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In 1865, James Clerk Maxwell predicted that light travels in waves, but humanity needed Heinrich Hertz's first radio transmitter to unleash modern technology and unveil new types of cosmic phenomena.
Radio transmitters tagged onto some coelacanths show that the fish stays close to home.
«The FutureArmy soldier... will gain independence and action from an ultra-small radio transmitter and receiver,» Rigg wrote.
Chris Urmson, director of the Google self - driving car program, asked the FCC on January 26 to renew an experimental authority license that allows it to test radio transmitters in the 76 GHz range — likely used by the radar system on its cars.
France, Denmark, Norway and Germany have all decided to turn off or dismantle their old radio transmitter stations.
We need to create several storm - hardened AM radio transmitters with a broadcast signal of a roughly five - mile radius throughout the County.
A video baby monitor device features a simplex radio transmitter and receiver system.
Some of our turtles go directly from the museum out into the wild but we can't afford to put radio transmitters on all of them so this is a great way of knowing which turtle is which should we come across them a few years later.
He will also unveil the Lib Dems» battle bus, complete with radio transmitter so he can do his call - in radio show on the road.
To prevent two signals from interfering, most drone radio transmitters and receivers are paired using RFID (Radio Frequency Identification).
To help inch things along, the DOT recently awarded a consortium of automakers, including Ford, GM, Toyota, and others, $ 7.4 million to outfit cars with compatible radio transmitters and test them on closed courses.
Only in the last 100 of those years have we developed radio transmitters.
THE «Wizard of Clapham Common» tinkers with copper conductors and wire rods, a socially awkward student creates the first amateur radio transmitter, a young boy solves logic problems in his head, but when tested formally jumps down from his desk and slaps the examiner.
A typical RFID system consists of a microchip programmed with identifying data — the «tag» — and a two - way radio transmitter - receiver, called an interrogator or a reader depending on its use.
The Singapore system gauges drivers» locations with radio transmitters mounted on dozens of gantries scattered around the city, like the gantries used in many U.S. wireless toll systems.
The orbiting debris has included a glove and a spatula dropped by space - shuttle astronauts, bags of Mir's garbage, and the Russian radio transmitter in a space suit, SuitSat.
He attached a small radio transmitter behind their dorsal fins.
That's because VLF radio transmitters have been used since at least the 1920s to send telegraph messages and communicate with submarines, and the belts» existence was only confirmed in 1958.
HAARP, near Gakona, Alaska, comprises radio transmitters and antennas that are used to heat up the ionosphere — the uppermost region of the atmosphere — creating a laboratory in the sky for scientists.The facility has been used to produce an artificial aurora and to study how charged particles behave in the ionosphere, at a total cost of more than $ 250 million to build and operate.
Each sheet contains a flat, dust - speck - size radio frequency identification chip — a micro radio transmitter and receiver — imprinted with an unalterable serial number.
They are programmed to operate for hundreds of thousands of years, like the outlandish radio transmitter I considered earlier, but they will generate a far more profound legacy than a radio signal.
Researchers hope to exploit lasers for communication because they operate at higher frequencies than traditional radio transmitters, and can therefore transmit more information in a set time.
While graphene NEMS will not be used to replace conventional radio transmitters, they have many applications in wireless signal processing.
Here we make use of miniaturized radio transmitters to study the foraging ranges of individual orchid bees without the bias of baiting stations.
The only accessory I use is an iPod / iPhone radio transmitter.
A Ka - band radio transmitter «applies 25 watts of power,» Alexis Madrigal, in a June 2017 article in The Atlantic, explains.
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