transmitter
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The concrete ring was built by the US Air Force in the early 1960s and supported a steerable helical transmitter that could detect activity from thousands of miles away, the trust said.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
His vice president, Muhammed Jallow, said during a visit to a transmitter substation in the town of Bijilo on Saturday that Barrow has set up a taskforce that is "meeting literally on a daily basis".
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
The observations allow astronomers to place "upper bounds" on the strength of any radio transmitter that might exist in the K2-18b system.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 14, 2026
For decades, proportional response functioned less as a strategy than a ritual: hit a transmitter, strike a barracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026
Theres a new radio transmitter in Brandenburg called the Deutschlandsender 3 my brother says it is three hundred thirty-something meters tall the second-tallest man-made construction in the world.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Jamming of foreign broadcasts was pioneered by Nazi Germany during World War Two, using noise or signals from more powerful transmitters located closer to the listeners.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
But Iran said in 2016 it was reviving the technology, which requires a network of large ground-based transmitters, though experts have not confirmed it is active today.
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
Anti-money-laundering laws are tough on banks and money transmitters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Between 2017 and 2023, the Arizona-based research team used satellite transmitters to follow 24 newly fledged Bald Eagles and two nonbreeding adults and to map how they moved within and beyond the state.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2025
When these fiber cables were originally laid, the optical switches—the transmitters and receivers—at each end of them could not take full advantage of the fiber’s total capacity.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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