shortwave
Speech parts
1. shortwave - Noun
2. shortwave - Adjective
Meaning
(of radio equipment) Capable of transmitting or receiving signals at such a wavelength.
(of radio waves) Having a wavelength of approximately 10 to 100 meters.
An electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between approximately 10 and 100 meters, corresponding to frequencies between 3 and 30 MHz.
Shortwaves are longer than microwaves.
(colloquial, usually in the plural) Any frequency in this range, especially when used in broadcasting.
Many stations broadcast on shortwaves.
(meteorology) Downward radiation entering the earth's atmosphere that is in the shortwave frequency range.
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Examples
If something is too hard to do, then it's not worth doing. You just stick that guitar in the closet next to your shortwave radio, your karate outfit and your unicycle and we'll go inside and watch TV.
(variation on above to demonstrate the good neighbor policy, probably) "Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. North and South America and by shortwave to all the ships at sea, let's go to press!"
After 1952, licences were required in Canada only for general coverage shortwave receivers with single-sideband capability, and VHF/UHF scanners which could tune to the maritime or land mobile radiotelephone bands.
Almost all modern amateur radio equipment is now a transceiver but there is an active market for pure radio receivers, mainly for shortwave listening (SWL) operators.
Although there were few others involved in FM research at this time, he did have knowledge of a project being conducted by RCA engineers, who were investigating whether FM shortwave transmissions were less susceptible to fading than AM.
AM shortwave broadcasting channels are allocated with a 5 kHz separation for traditional analog audio broadcasting.