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87 relations: Adjacent-channel interference, AM broadcasting, Amateur radio, Amateur radio operator, American Radio Relay League, BBC, Border blaster, Canada, CHUM (AM), Citizens band radio, CKLW, Clear-channel station, Club (organization), Contesting, Continent, Country, Crystal radio, Dipole antenna, Disc jockey, Diversity scheme, DX Century Club, DX-pedition, Earth–Moon–Earth communication, Electromagnetic radiation, Federal Communications Commission, FM broadcasting, France Inter, High frequency, Indian Ocean, International broadcasting, Ionosphere, Island, KAAY, KDKA (AM), KFI, KSL (radio), Lansing, Michigan, Low frequency, Maidenhead Locator System, Melbourne, Mexico, Military communications, Missionary, North America, Numbers station, Ocean, Pirate radio, Popular music, QSL card, Radio, ..., Radio Australia, Radio broadcasting, Radioteletype, Réunion, Reading, Berkshire, Regions of France, Religious broadcasting, Satellite, Scanner (radio), Shorthand, Shortwave bands, Shortwave listening, Shortwave radio, Shortwave radio receiver, Sideband, SINPO code, Solar flare, Streaming media, Sunspot, Telegraphy, Television, Terrestrial television, Top 40, Ultra high frequency, United States, Vehicle audio, Very high frequency, Voice of America, WABC (AM), Watt, West Coast of the United States, Western Europe, WJR, WLS (AM), WLW, WWKB, 802.11 non-standard equipment. Expand index (37 more) »
Adjacent-channel interference
Adjacent-channel interference (ACI) is interference caused by extraneous power from a signal in an adjacent channel.
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AM broadcasting
AM broadcasting is a radio broadcasting technology, which employs amplitude modulation (AM) transmissions.
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Amateur radio
Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, describes the use of radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communication.
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Amateur radio operator
An amateur radio operator is someone who uses equipment at an amateur radio station to engage in two-way personal communications with other amateur operators on radio frequencies assigned to the amateur radio service.
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American Radio Relay League
The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the largest membership association of amateur radio enthusiasts in the USA.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Border blaster
A border blaster is a broadcast station that, though not licensed as an external service, is, in practice, used to target another country.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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CHUM (AM)
CHUM, broadcasting at 1050 kHz, is a Canadian radio station licensed to Toronto, Ontario.
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Citizens band radio
Citizens band radio (also known as CB radio) is, in many countries, a system of short-distance radio communications between individuals typically on a selection of 40 channels within the 27 MHz (11 m) band.
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CKLW
CKLW is a 50,000-watt, Class B, AM radio station broadcasting on the Mexican clear-channel frequency of 800 kHz (800 AM) and located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, serving Windsor and Detroit.
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Clear-channel station
A clear-channel station is an AM radio station in North America that has the highest protection from interference from other stations, particularly concerning night-time skywave propagation.
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Club (organization)
A club is an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal.
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Contesting
Contesting (also known as radiosport) is a competitive activity pursued by amateur radio operators.
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Continent
A continent is one of several very large landmasses of the world.
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Country
A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography.
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Crystal radio
A crystal radio receiver, also called a crystal set, is a simple radio receiver, popular in the early days of radio.
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Dipole antenna
In radio and telecommunications a dipole antenna or doublet is the simplest and most widely used class of antenna.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.
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Diversity scheme
In telecommunications, a diversity scheme refers to a method for improving the reliability of a message signal by using two or more communication channels with different characteristics.
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DX Century Club
The DX Century Club, or DXCC, is an amateur radio operating award earned by making contacts with licensed amateur operators in at least 100 "countries" (i.e. geographic locations listed in the rules for the award) around the world, many of which are physically distant from the claimant (i.e.DX).
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DX-pedition
A DX-pedition is an expedition to what is considered an exotic place by amateur radio operators, perhaps because of its remoteness, access restrictions or simply because there are very few radio amateurs active from that place.
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Earth–Moon–Earth communication
Earth–Moon–Earth communication (EME), also known as moon bounce, is a radio communications technique that relies on the propagation of radio waves from an Earth-based transmitter directed via reflection from the surface of the Moon back to an Earth-based receiver.
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Electromagnetic radiation
In physics, electromagnetic radiation (EM radiation or EMR) refers to the waves (or their quanta, photons) of the electromagnetic field, propagating (radiating) through space-time, carrying electromagnetic radiant energy.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government created by statute (and) to regulate interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable.
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FM broadcasting
FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting using frequency modulation (FM) technology.
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France Inter
France Inter is a major French public radio channel and part of Radio France.
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High frequency
High frequency (HF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) between 3 and 30 megahertz (MHz).
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Indian Ocean
The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering (approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface).
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International broadcasting
International broadcasting is broadcasting that is deliberately aimed at a foreign, rather than a domestic, audience.
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Ionosphere
The ionosphere is the ionized part of Earth's upper atmosphere, from about to altitude, a region that includes the thermosphere and parts of the mesosphere and exosphere.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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KAAY
KAAY (1090 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas, owned by Cumulus Media.
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KDKA (AM)
KDKA (1020 kHz AM) is a Class A (clear channel) radio station, owned and operated by Entercom and licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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KFI
KFI (640 kHz) is an AM radio station in Los Angeles, California, owned and operated by iHeartMedia.
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KSL (radio)
KSL Newsradio is a pair of radio stations located in Salt Lake City, Utah, which includes the original AM station KSL (1160 kHz, licensed to Salt Lake City) and the FM station KSL-FM (102.7 MHz, licensed to Midvale).
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Lansing, Michigan
Lansing is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Low frequency
Low frequency (low freq) or LF is the ITU designation for radio frequencies (RF) in the range of 30 kilohertz (kHz)–300 kHz.
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Maidenhead Locator System
The Maidenhead Locator System (a.k.a. QTH Locator and IARU Locator) is a geographic co-ordinate system used by amateur radio operators to succinctly describe their locations, which replaced the deprecated QRA locator that was limited to European contacts.
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Melbourne
Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Military communications
Military communications or military signals involve all aspects of communications, or conveyance of information, by armed forces.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to proselytize and/or perform ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
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North America
North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.
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Numbers station
A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries.
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Ocean
An ocean (the sea of classical antiquity) is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.
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Pirate radio
Pirate radio or a pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license.
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Popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.
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QSL card
A QSL card is a written confirmation of either a two-way radiocommunication between two amateur radio stations or a one-way reception of a signal from an AM radio, FM radio, television or shortwave broadcasting station.
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Radio
Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.
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Radio Australia
Radio Australia is the international broadcasting and online service operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Australia's public broadcaster.
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Radio broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is transmission by radio waves intended to reach a wide audience.
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Radioteletype
Radioteletype (RTTY) is a telecommunications system consisting originally of two or more electromechanical teleprinters in different locations connected by radio rather than a wired link.
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Réunion
Réunion (La Réunion,; previously Île Bourbon) is an island and region of France in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar and southwest of Mauritius.
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Reading, Berkshire
Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.
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Regions of France
France is divided into 18 administrative regions (région), including 13 metropolitan regions and 5 overseas regions.
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Religious broadcasting
Religious broadcasting is broadcasting by religious organizations, usually with a religious message.
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Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an artificial object which has been intentionally placed into orbit.
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Scanner (radio)
A scanner (also referred to a police scanner, police scanner radio or radio scanner) is a radio receiver that can automatically tune, or scan, two or more discrete frequencies, stopping when it finds a signal on one of them and then continuing to scan other frequencies when the initial transmission ceases.
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Shorthand
Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language.
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Shortwave bands
Shortwave bands are frequency allocations for use within the shortwave radio spectrum (the upper MF band and all of the HF band).
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Shortwave listening
Shortwave listening, or SWLing, is the hobby of listening to shortwave radio broadcasts located on frequencies between 1700 kHz and 30 MHz.
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Shortwave radio
Shortwave radio is radio transmission using shortwave radio frequencies.
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Shortwave radio receiver
A shortwave radio receiver is a radio receiver that can receive one or more shortwave bands, between 1.6 and 30 MHz.
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Sideband
In radio communications, a sideband is a band of frequencies higher than or lower than the carrier frequency, containing power as a result of the modulation process.
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SINPO code
SINPO, an acronym for Signal, Interference, Noise, Propagation, and Overall, is a Signal Reporting Code used to describe the quality of radiotelegraph transmissions.
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Solar flare
A solar flare is a sudden flash of increased Sun's brightness, usually observed near its surface.
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Streaming media
Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.
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Sunspot
Sunspots are temporary phenomena on the Sun's photosphere that appear as spots darker than the surrounding areas.
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Telegraphy
Telegraphy (from Greek: τῆλε têle, "at a distance" and γράφειν gráphein, "to write") is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic (as opposed to verbal or audio) messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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Terrestrial television
Terrestrial or broadcast television is a type of television broadcasting in which the television signal is transmitted by radio waves from the terrestrial (Earth based) transmitter of a television station to a TV receiver having an antenna.
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Top 40
In the music industry, the top 40 is the current, 40 most-popular songs in a particular genre.
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Ultra high frequency
Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one decimeter.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Vehicle audio
Vehicle audio is equipment installed in a car or other vehicle to provide in-car entertainment and information for the vehicle occupants.
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Very high frequency
Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten to one meter.
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Voice of America
Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S. government-funded international radio broadcast source that serves as the United States federal government's official institution for non-military, external broadcasting.
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WABC (AM)
WABC (770 AM), known as "77 WABC" is a radio station licensed to New York City and is owned by the broadcasting division of Cumulus Media.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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West Coast of the United States
The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.
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Western Europe
Western Europe is the region comprising the western part of Europe.
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WJR
WJR (760 AM) is a radio station in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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WLS (AM)
WLS (890 kHz, "89 WLS") is a commercial AM radio station in Chicago, Illinois.
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WLW
WLW (700 AM), branded Newsradio 700 WLW, is a commercial news/talk radio station serving Greater Cincinnati.
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WWKB
WWKB is an AM radio station in Buffalo, New York, operating on a frequency of 1520 kHz.
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802.11 non-standard equipment
802.11 non-standard equipment is equipment that seeks to extend the Wi-Fi standard 802.11, by implementing proprietary features.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXing
