shortwave

Example Sentences

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The National Weather Service said that large hail, gusty winds and scattered thunderstorms would impact the coastal Carolinas into Tuesday evening as a midlevel shortwave preceded by a surface cold front crosses through the region.

From Fox News

Listeners of the Koran had access to recordings through vinyl records, shortwave radio broadcasts, audio cassette tapes and CDs, produced and distributed or sold by organisations largely from Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

From BBC

A luxury was a daily after-work martini, and once a week he contacted his wife, Wilma, by voice relay through shortwave radio operators.

From Seattle Times

Late in the Cold War, shortwave radio was still considered sophisticated technology, and El Salvador’s Marxist guerrillas got their insurrectionist message out via clandestine Radio Venceremos, despite intense U.S.-backed Salvadoran military efforts to capture the transmitter.

From Washington Post

Tuesday’s storm formed ahead of a shortwave trough, or dip in the jet stream accompanying a strip of high-altitude cold air.

From Seattle Times