How to Use radio spectrum in a Sentence

radio spectrum

noun
  • The sky is big, there are a lot of stars out there, and the radio spectrum is really wide, too.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2012
  • In the last days of the Trump administration, the FCC took away most of the radio spectrum that cars were planning to use.
    CBS News, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The devices operate on a portion of the radio spectrum that is close to the range used by the new 5G service, called C-Band.
    David Koenig, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Small firms get discounts when buying rights to use the radio spectrum and pay lower patent fees.
    Robert D. Atkinson, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • So yet again, a podcast called Radio Spectrum is going to talk about the radio spectrum.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Astronomers have never observed in this part of the radio spectrum before, and researchers are eager to be the first to see what’s hiding there.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 15 May 2021
  • The new high-speed 5G service uses a segment of the radio spectrum that is close to that used by altimeters, which are devices that measure the height of aircraft above the ground.
    David Koenig, chicagotribune.com, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The new high-speed wireless service uses a segment of the radio spectrum that is close to that used by altimeters, which are devices that measure the height of aircraft above the ground.
    David Koenig, ajc, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The new high-speed wireless service uses a segment of the radio spectrum, C-Band, that is close to that used by altimeters, which are devices that measure the height of aircraft above the ground.
    David Koenig, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Radio engineers break the radio spectrum range into low, middle and high bands, each with its strengths and weaknesses.
    Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The report, issued in March 2010, focused on opening up dormant radio spectrum for new uses.
    Thomas W. Hazlett, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Today, demand is soaring for the finite resource of radio spectrum.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2019
  • Those are related to a type of 5G service that relies on chunks of radio spectrum called C-Band, which wireless carriers spent billions of dollars to buy up last year.
    Fox News, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The faster wireless standard uses different chunks of the radio spectrum—but the technology remains nascent.
    Will Knight, Wired, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The telecoms, the FCC and their supporters argue that C-band and aircraft altimeters operate far enough apart on the radio spectrum to avoid interference.
    Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The companies compete for customers over their own network of cell towers, using radio spectrum that is licensed from the government.
    Nick Perry, The Seattle Times, 28 Nov. 2018
  • That means downloads that are generally faster than those carried over the lower end of the radio spectrum used by the company’s extended-range service and much faster than 4G service.
    Drew Fitzgerald, WSJ, 26 May 2021
  • On the other side of the radio spectrum, right-wing star Dan Bongino is threatening to cancel his show with Cumulus Media over the company’s vaccine mandate.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 Oct. 2021
  • This would move radio spectrum out of oblivion and into the mobile broadband networks craved by consumers, innovators and the U.S. economy.
    Thomas W. Hazlett, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Sensitive across a wide swath of the radio spectrum, MeerKAT can study how hydrogen gas moves into galaxies to fuel star formation.
    Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 19 June 2018
  • Both sides are waging a regulatory battle for rights to 12GHz radio spectrum.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 8 July 2022
  • Getting customers off 3G allows carriers to free up wireless frequencies for 4G signals over broader swaths of the radio spectrum.
    Drew Fitzgerald, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2019
  • This can make our field ring like a bell, shaking the particles trapped within, and generating electromagnetic noise and signals across the radio spectrum.
    Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 7 Dec. 2011
  • The other enormous difference from earlier cellular standards is the number of frequencies in the radio spectrum that need to be managed.
    IEEE Spectrum, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Earth was never a particularly great place to do any kind of radio astronomy due to our thick atmosphere blocking a large portion of the radio spectrum.
    Daniel Oberhaus Supercluster, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2020
  • E-Space plans to use might lend themselves to a network that also uses radio spectrum reserved for terrestrial purposes.
    Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Technical challenges with the radio spectrum needed for the communications equipment and with obtaining right-of-way along the tracks in western states has hindered the installation in past years.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Steven Cherry Today’s episode may confuse people and search engines alike—we’ve titled this podcast series Radio Spectrum, but our topic for today is the radio spectrum.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The direct-to-mobile cell service that BlueWalker 3 and its successors aim to provide requires a much stronger beam and broader use of the radio spectrum than existing networks, sparking concern among radio astronomers.
    Byzack Savitsky, science.org, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The reason: segments of that range of radio spectrum are already used by Global Positioning System signals and other military systems.
    Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 22 Nov. 2019

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