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    Medium wave (MW) is a part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting. The spectrum provides about 120 channels with...
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    the medium. Other examples of mechanical waves are seismic waves, gravity waves, surface waves and string vibrations. In an electromagnetic wave (such...
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  • This is an incomplete list of medium wave transmitters in Europe. The emitted AM radio signal can be received on AM radios across Europe, depending on...
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    TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna with the purpose of signal transmission up to a radio receiver...
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    shock wave (also spelled shockwave), or shock, is a type of propagating disturbance that moves faster than the local speed of sound in the medium. Like...
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    can occur because the medium is moving in the direction opposite to the movement of the wave, or it can arise in a stationary medium as a result of interference...
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    Longwave (redirect from Long-wave)
    spectrum with wavelengths longer than what was originally called the medium-wave broadcasting band. The term is historic, dating from the early 20th century...
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    2021 at 0930 UTC, as part of the BBC's programme of switching off their medium wave services around the UK. BBC Radio 4's mediumwave services from this transmitter...
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  • Virgin Media channel 917. RTÉ Radio 1 was available until 2008 on medium wave. The medium-wave transmitters of RTÉ Radio 1 were shut down at 15.00 on 24 March...
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    oscillations. All waves move energy from place to place without transporting the matter in the transmission medium if there is one. Electromagnetic waves are transverse...
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    for long wave and medium wave radio transmission that started service on 12 October 1936. The site is owned by Arqiva and houses a long wave radio transmitter...
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    consisting of five ground-fed guyed masts was built nearby for the 1467 kHz medium wave frequency, which was previously transmitted from a transmitter at La...
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    material medium, they are slowed depending on the medium's permeability and permittivity. Air is tenuous enough that in the Earth's atmosphere radio waves travel...
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    Wavelength (redirect from Wave length)
    depends on the medium (for example, vacuum, air, or water) that a wave travels through. Examples of waves are sound waves, light, water waves and periodic...
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    typically imposed on a wave of some kind suitable for the chosen medium. For example, data can modulate sound, and a transmission medium for sounds may be...
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  • with line-of-sight propagation that requires no medium, and skywave via the ionosphere. Ground wave is important for radio signals below 30 MHz, but...
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    Longitudinal waves are waves in which the vibration of the medium is parallel to the direction the wave travels and displacement of the medium is in the...
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    physics, a mechanical wave is a wave that is an oscillation of matter, and therefore transfers energy through a material medium. (Vacuum is, from classical...
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  • rebroadcast of the already AM radio stations. In 2000, AM stations (on the medium wave band) started a phase of simulcasting to FM band, as of 2013, only one...
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    of 300 kilohertz (kHz) to 3 megahertz (MHz). Part of this band is the medium wave (MW) AM broadcast band. The MF band is also known as the hectometer band...
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  • waves or energy Active laser medium (also called gain medium or lasing medium), a quantum system that allows amplification of power (gain) of waves passing...
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  • Premier Christian Radio was founded in 1994, broadcasting exclusively on medium wave to a Greater London audience when it also began its telephone counselling...
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  • radio waves which travel in a straight line from the transmitting antenna to the receiving antenna. Line of sight transmission is used for medium-distance...
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  • Doppler effect (category Wave mechanics)
    waves that propagate in a medium, such as sound waves, the velocity of the observer and of the source are relative to the medium in which the waves are...
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    The Brookmans Park transmitting station is a facility for medium wave (MW) broadcasting at Brookmans Park, Hertfordshire, north of London (grid reference...
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    propagation velocity of a seismic wave depends on density and elasticity of the medium as well as the type of wave. Velocity tends to increase with depth...
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    audio radio transmissions, and is still used worldwide, primarily for medium wave (also known as "AM band") transmissions, but also on the longwave and...
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    Refraction (redirect from Wave refraction)
    redirection of a wave as it passes from one medium to another. The redirection can be caused by the wave's change in speed or by a change in the medium. Refraction...
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    areas involving elastic waves, S waves, secondary waves, or shear waves (sometimes called elastic S waves) are a type of elastic wave and are one of the two...
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    available on DAB+ across the whole of Denmark. The World Service employed a medium wave transmitter at Orford Ness to provide English-language coverage to Europe...
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