What is "short-wave"

Usage examples of "short-wave".

Navy's atomic clock in Fort Collins, Colorado, scrambled and descrambled the laser-beam transmission five times a second, and the resultant secure transmission wavered like an oldstyle short-wave radio.

There was bottled gas for cooking, a generator for lighting, and a battery-powered Sony short-wave radio.

It had to be translated into code numerals, these into quite cryptic groups of short-wave, frequency-modulated impulses, and these went to the other ship and into heaven knew what to become inteffigible.

In an instant they were receiving a short-wave broadcast at the Heaviside Layer of a distant planet.

That message would travel in a very short and tightly focused, line-of-sight beam to his people on the ridge, who would in turn transmit news of the launch using their sophisticated short-wave radio so that listening stations directly on the West Coast could then transmit the message on to China.

He could listen in to everything without difficulties whether it was the Peking police short-wave broadcasts or the news from the space station Freedom I or the long wave broadcasts of international senders.

He telescoped up a small directional loop antenna, donned a headset, and tuned in the miniature short-wave radio transmitter which was in the package carried by the driver of the blonde girl’.

At the instant Ramadanoff expected a collision, the door rolled silently upward, actuated by a short-wave radio beam transmitted from within the car to a detector-relay device connected to an electric door-opening mechanism.

One of the men shifted the radio control knob, clicked a switch and got down on short-wave bands.

In a radio-van against which Starley the bosun and two seamen leaned, a short-wave set was tuned to 140 metres.

Ham was thinking of the equipment case that was in the car, of the portable short-wave set.

The clicking sound was an indicator directing the occupants to turn on the special two-way short-wave set that all of Doc’.

They had a short-wave set rigged to the dashboard--site-to-site communication made easy.