shortwave

Example Sentences

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He regularly gets on the subspace shortwave looking for any others of his kind left on Earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2026

"It's really difficult for the regime to jam shortwave because it's a long-distance broadcast," executive director Rieneke van Santen told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Many are small Chinese tankers that make their presence and origin known to the Revolutionary Guard through loudspeakers and shortwave radio.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

They communicated with her via shortwave radio, playing a waltz and a song from the opera Madame Butterfly as signals that her handlers had a message for her.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023

In early 1941, when Gerhard Kunkel returned from war service in France, he brought home a broken shortwave radio and gave it to Helmuth Hübener, his younger half-brother, who lived with his grandparents in Hamburg.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti