shortwave

Example Sentences

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But her exposure to the Arctic territory began decades ago, she said, when she would hear Greenlandic Inuit songs as a child through her grandmother's shortwave radio.

From BBC

"As Iran wakes up to a new day, metrics show the national internet blackout is past the 84 hour mark," monitor Netblocks said, saying that the blackout could be circumvented with shortwave radio, connecting to cell coverage at borders, Starlink and satellite phones.

From Barron's

They’d barely begun to search when they spotted a shortwave radio, with a wire snaking into the bathroom and dangling out the window.

From Literature

He’d hang a copper wire out the window facing the courthouse, connect the homemade antenna to his shortwave radio, and exchange coded messages with Moscow.

From Literature

At night, she turns on the shortwave radio to eavesdrop on other starving families without being tempted to help.

From Los Angeles Times