Sentences with phrase «transmit radio signals»

It was the FCC that beat this US based company over the head for putting up satellites that transmit radio signals over the US without approval, because there are no other laws, international or otherwise, regarding what can be put up into space.

In the 1900s, a U.S. army officer named George Owen Squier developed a method to transmit radio signals along electrical and telephone wires.

The flamboyant Serbian - born engineer Nikola Tesla followed that approach and transmitted a radio signal across a short distance in 1893.

DAB transmits radio signals as a stream of digits instead of an analogue signal, and is virtually immune to the fluttering and fading problems of FM radio.

The 184 - pound, 22.5 square - inch sphere traveled around the planet every 96 minutes transmitting radio signals, and its launch caught the U.S. military by surprise.

The buoys relay their positions by transmitting radio signals at a precise frequency.

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Generally, these devices operate on a wireless radio frequency that transmits a signal from the monitor to the receiver.

For more than a decade, scientists at Haystack Observatory have studied plasma plume phenomena using a ground - based technique called GPS - TEC, in which scientists analyze radio signals transmitted from GPS satellites to more than 1,000 receivers on the ground.

The tag transmits a radio pulse that can be picked up at least 20 kilometres away — much further than existing tags can signal — and crucially, it needs no batteries to work.

Ossmann found that using the radio to emit a high - power radar signal causes a reflector to wirelessly transmit the data from keystrokes, say, to an attacker.

Small radio frequency (RF) coils strategically placed around a patient's head — the twisted copper wires shown in the image at right — act as antennas, detecting that hum and transmitting it to domino - sized green amplifiers, which read the signal and pass it on to an external computer.

With present techniques, teleportation is conceivable only with elementary particles, or theoretically, by encoding information about an object, transmitting the information to another place, such as by radio or electric signal, and creating a copy of the original object in the new location.

The Chinese successfully tested a ground - launched satellite interceptor earlier this year, and prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Iraqi forces tried to jam signals from U.S. navigation satellites by transmitting radio noise in an attempt to overwhelm GPS receivers.

The network tracks the precise location of every wireless device using its radio signal transmitted in the return direction.

If the signals generated were transmitted only from the ground, radio astronomers could seek remote sites and use the shielding property of the Earth's curvature or the shelter of hills.

Transmitting readings from all those spacecraft would be difficult with radio signals, so the Telecommunications Orbiter will send information home via beams of laser light.

The team designed a custom base station to transmit and receive the radio signals.

The battery - free phone prototype can operate on power gathered from ambient radio signals transmitted by a base station up to 31 feet away.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing atomically thin «drumheads» able to receive and transmit signals across a radio frequency range far greater than what we can hear with the human ear.

The new system transmits messages by reflecting and encoding audio and data in these signals that are ubiquitous in urban environments, without affecting the original radio transmissions.

Alternatively, it would find support if we detected obviously artificial radio signals being transmitted from the vicinity of Boyajian's star — a search we have already begun with Boyajian using the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.

For example, if the, 000 - foot radio telescope at the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico were to transmit information at the rate of one it (binary digit) per second with a bandwidth of one hertz, the signal could be received by an identical radio telescope anywhere in the galaxy.

«WiTrack transmits a very low - power radio signal, 100 times smaller than WiFi and 1,000 times smaller than what your cell phone can transmit.

Prior to atmospheric entry at 14:42 GMT, contact via the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the world's largest interferometric array, located near Pune, India, was established just after it began transmitting a beacon signal 75 minutes before reaching the upper layers of the Martian atmosphere.

To avoid cables that the camera crew might trip over, radio - cameras transmit their signal from a microwave antenna.

New Horizons is currently so far from Earth that transmitting data to or from the spacecraft that radio signals racing through space at over 186,000 miles a second, take nearly five hours to travel between the interplanetary observatory and mission engineers on our home planet.

CLEVELAND - Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing atomically thin «drumheads» able to receive and transmit signals across a radio frequency range far greater than what we can hear with the human ear.

Normally, very low frequency (VLF) signals from radio telescopes are transmitted from the ground and are used to communicate with submarines, deep below the surface of the ocean.

Among the latter are a treasured colleague (William Fichtner) who helps her transmit and receive radio signals and whose name, Kent Clark, irrelevantly suggests an inverted Superman; a bad father (read: villain) and former mentor (Tom Skerritt) who briefly becomes her boss, then her competitor, and who kowtows shamelessly to the power structure; a religious scholar named Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) who gives her a Cracker Jack compass, virtually repeats her father's tag line («If there wasn't anyone else out there [in the cosmos], it'd be an awful waste of space»), and goes to bed with her; and an eccentric billionaire (John Hurt) who lives on a well - appointed plane (recalling Jules Verne's Captain Nemo) and comes up with the funding.

Comprised of linked solo and curated projects, Sonic Arcade explores sound as substance, framing it as interdependent material that is physically crafted and transmitted through electronic circuits and signals, radio waves, and resonant bodies that create encounters that are not only heard, but felt.

18 U.S.C. § 1343 provides: «Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.»

From my years of electronics communications work modulating and then demodulating signals that have been transmitted over a radio frequency carrier method, I can see ways the overall long term signals in the weather and climate data could be understood.

«electronic communication» means any transfer of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, data, or intelligence of any nature transmitted in whole or in part by a wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photooptical system that affects interstate or foreign commerce, but does not include --

Its dominion is information in transit, with authority over things like what frequencies radio stations or Wi - Fi routers should use, or standards for transmitting digital TV signals.

For example, a veteran with previous experience in signals intelligence might augment their career opportunities to capitalize on a community college program that trains individuals to be broadcast media technicians, who work with the equipment necessary to record, edit, and transmit multimedia content on radio and television.

• Develop new communications technology by designing cell phones and two - way radios that transmit signals.

Rather than being transmitted using an analogue or digital radio signal, internet radio is accessed online.

As the name suggests, digital radio is transmitted digitally, and offers a much more reliable signal than analogue radio.