Wiktionary
n. 1 (context dated English) A person who operates a radio transmitter on a ship or in an outpost, military unit, etc., in order to communicate over long distances. 2 (context business English) A commercial firm which provides mobile communications services.
Usage examples of "wireless operator".
Something to do with a German rear-echelon signals unit whose wireless operator played Morse code to the Gestapo as if it were a Mozart sonata.
There should have been people on the Boat Deck uncovering the boats, and the bridge shouldn't have been empty, and the call letters the wireless operator was sending weren't right.
Five minutes later he burst in on the wireless operator and sent a long dispatch to officials ashore.
So did the other crewmen from the experimental model: the loader, the bow machine-gunner, the wireless operator, and the driver.
On the way Kennedy had spoken to the head of the Pinkertons engaged by the management for the meet, and had also dropped in to see the wireless operator to ask him to send up a messenger if he saw the same phenomena as he had observed the day before.
Leiser sipped a White Lady while the wireless operator drank best bitter at the Department's expense.
Indeed, Dempsey made the wireless operator send a message offering to join the battle.
When he came back, he was wearing a pack like the one a wireless operator carried.
He was referring to the fact that the wireless operator had picked up an aircraft beacon on his DF.
Gerard paused for an instant to close the staring eyes of the wireless operator.
Tom arranged that in his absence the wireless operator on the grounds would take any message that came for him.