• An amateur radio contact, more commonly referred to as simply a "contact", is an exchange of information between two amateur radio stations. The exchange...
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  • Radio Contact is the thirteenth album by Acoustic Alchemy. Comprising thirteen tracks and led off by the single "No Messin'", the album features input...
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  • "contact", "touching", "sensation", "sense impression", etc. Contact (amateur radio) Contact (law), a concept related to visitation rights Contact (social)...
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  • Radio Contact is a Belgian commercial music radio station created in 1980, broadcasting in French in the French Community of Belgium. The station is part...
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    Contact lenses, or simply contacts, are thin lenses placed directly on the surface of the eyes. Contact lenses are ocular prosthetic devices used by over...
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    scrambled to intercept the aircraft. Sea–Tac air traffic control made radio contact with Russell, the sole occupant, who described himself as a "broken...
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  • verified public contact to date means tragic consequences are still largely speculative. To detect extraterrestrial civilizations with radio telescopes, one...
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  • Radio Contact Ostbelgien Now is a German language version of the French speaking radio station Radio Contact broadcasting to the German-speaking Community...
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  • Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically...
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  • protagonist who leaves Earth and begins drifting out into outer space as radio contact breaks off with his ground control team. In terms of specific lyrics...
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  • Language contact occurs when speakers of two or more languages or varieties interact with and influence each other. The study of language contact is called...
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    who are caved in following a landslide. They learn via intermittent radio contact that, without food, they are likely to starve to death before they can...
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    Traffic Control lost radio contact with the aircraft while it was over Denver. Per federal regulations, the Denver ARTCC (where contact was lost) instructed...
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    (120 mi) of performing a landing on Mars' moon Phobos in 1989 before radio contact with that lander was suddenly lost. A similar Russian sample return...
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    were met by the lead reconnaissance units from XXX Corps. At 16:00 radio contact alerted the main force that the Son bridge had been destroyed and requested...
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    make contact with Britain. Partly as a consequence of the radio blackout, Urquhart decided to follow the 1st Parachute Brigade and make contact with Lathbury...
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    special modes, in order to maximize their ability to make and maintain radio contact. Since the late 1960s, commercial transceivers specially designed for...
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    ceremonies and instructed the other two to move down. There was no radio contact after that. Back at the camps below, team members saw two headlamps...
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    The last radio contact with the flight was at 20:45. The flight crew were expected to radio at 21:23, but they did not do so. Radio contact was lost about...
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    when Peterson failed to make the expected radio contact, repeated attempts were made to establish radio contact, without success. Later that morning at...
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    September 23, 1999, at 09:00:46 UTC. Mars Climate Orbiter went out of radio contact when the spacecraft passed behind Mars at 09:04:52 UTC, 49 seconds earlier...
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    Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz...
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  • private MU-2B aircraft was at 24,000 feet when it vanished from radar and radio contact with air traffic controllers in Miami. Plane wreckage was found later...
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    Alaska to Montana, with 44 people aboard. The aircraft made its last radio contact two hours into its eight-hour flight. Despite one of the largest rescue...
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  • follow IFR and are separated from each other by ATC. Permanent two-way radio contact with ATC is required. Permission for using airspace is required except...
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  • DXing (category Radio hobbies)
    distant radio or television signals, or making two-way radio contact with distant stations in amateur radio, citizens band radio or other two-way radio communications...
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  • the coast of Washington toward the Strait of Juan de Fuca must make radio contact with Canadian Coast Guard vessel traffic service upon crossing the 48th...
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    flight proceeded to Huntington without incident. The crew established radio contact with air traffic controllers at 7:23 pm with instructions to descend...
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    overseas servicemen to contact their families at home. The program's name was changed again to the current Military Auxiliary Radio System on 23 December...
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  • have been pinned down by gunfire and/or wounded, yet was still within radio contact, hearing the female dispatcher's tone would help keep the officer from...
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