Sentences with phrase «watt radio transmitter»

Back when transistor radios were hip, Mariner 4 sent these first close - up views of Mars across 134 million miles using a puny 10 - watt radio transmitter.

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.

The Voyagers are now so far away that the signals from their 23 - watt radio transmitters, powered by a radioactive generator, take more than 12 hours to reach Earth.

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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.

To expand NOAA Weather Radio coverage in the State of Alaska, the National Weather Service (NWS) and U.S. Coast Guard are partnering 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.