During the Gulf War, if an aircraft was illuminated by enemy radar a bogus " Magnum " call on the radio was often enough to convince the operators to power down.

The station unit number was 91 and the radio call sign was NRN-1.

ITU prefixes: Letter combinations available for use in Canada as the first two letters of a television or radio station's call sign are CF, CG, CH, CI, CJ, CK, CY, CZ, VA, VB, VC, VD, VE, VF, VG, VO, VX, VY, XJ, XK, XL, XM, XN and XO.

Only CF, CH, CI, CJ and CK are currently in common use, although four radio stations in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador retained call letters beginning with VO when Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation in 1949.

Car Talk is structured as a call-in radio show: listeners call with questions related to motor vehicle maintenance and repair.

" Gitmo " has a U. S. amateur radio call sign series, KG4 followed by two letters.

Gernsback, who edited Radio News until 1929, made use of the magazine to promote his own interests, including having his radio station ’ s call letters on the cover starting in 1925.

Heather McNamara calls a popular radio show one night while Veronica and Heather Duke are listening and talks of depressing aspects in her life ; the next day, Heather Duke tells the entire school about Heather McNamara's radio call ; McNamara attempts to take her life by overdosing on pills in the girls ' bathroom but is saved by Veronica.

The International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) allocates call sign prefixes for radio and television stations of all types.

See Amateur radio call signs of Japan.

Its amateur radio call sign prefix is JX.

Brando was an active ham radio operator, with the call signs KE6PZH and FO5GJ ( the latter from his island ).

He handled the radio call of the Rangers ' Stanley Cup – clinching victory in 1994.

The amateur radio call sign used for both cities is EA9.

Indeed, one-size-fits-all programming is no longer seen as tenable by some, as the diversity of musical tastes among the listening public have created a proliferation of radio formats in what some might call a form of narrowcasting.

When Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov claimed in radio broadcasts that they were not bombing, but delivering food to the starving Finns, the Finns, who were not starving, started to call the air bombs Molotov bread baskets.

* WEEI radio station in Boston, established by the Edison Electric Illuminating Company ( hence the call letters )

Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live conversations between the host and listeners who " call in " ( usually via telephone ) to the show.

In 1978, Turner struck a deal with a student-operated radio station at MIT, Technology Broadcasting System to obtain the rights to the WTBS call sign for $ 50, 000.

International call sign prefixes for radio and television stations: CV and CX

A similar technique was sometimes used to get the first call for prizes in radio " call-in " shows, thus leading to the adoption of random " fifth caller ," " seventeenth caller " etc.

* January 7 – The first transatlantic telephone call is made via radio from New York City to London, England.

With few exceptions, radio stations east of the Mississippi River received official call signs beginning with the letter W ; those west of the Mississippi a K. The amount of programs these early stations aired was often limited, in part due to the expense of program creation.

As Grenadian and Cuban troops surrounded the team, the SEALs ' only radio ran out of battery power, and they used the mansion's land line telephone to call in AC-130 fire support.

When, on a mid-ocean voyage, Paley heard a phonograph record of a young unknown crooner, he rushed to the ship's radio room and " cabled " New York to sign Bing Crosby immediately to a contract for a daily radio show.

* Call sign, in broadcasting and radio communications, a unique designation for a transmitting station

* Air Force One is the radio call sign of any Air Force plane the President of the United States travels on.

" In addition to providing the first photographs of the distinctive contrail previously reported by many, the significance of this sighting was enhanced by Douglas ' reports of intercepts of radio transmissions: " Air-to-air communications ... were between an AWACS aircraft with the call sign " Dragnet 51 " from Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, and two unknown aircraft using the call signs " Darkstar November " and " Darkstar Mike ".

" (" Darkstar " is also a call sign of AWACS aircraft from a different squadron at Tinker AFB ) A month later, radio enthusiasts in California monitoring Edwards AFB Radar ( callsign " Joshua Control ") heard early morning radio transmissions between Joshua and a high flying aircraft using the callsign " Gaspipe ".

In 1930, she was known to be Brazil's gem singer, and in 1933 went on to sign a two-year contract with Rádio Mayrink Veiga, becoming the first contract singer in the radio industry history of Brazil.

SSTV transmissions often include station call sign s, RST code | RST reception reports, and radio amateur jargon.

The portrayal of its protagonist ( Jimmy Cliff ) as an aspiring musician who is forced to sign away his rights to make a hit record depicts the role of record producers and radio DJs as a dominance-the musician ends up with no aspirations or living the same lifestyle ( as in the case of the film Rockers ).

95. 5 K-Rock ( call sign: 3CAT ) is a commercial FM radio station based in Geelong, Australia.

The station dropped the 3GL call sign in favour of 3CAT, an ID that was proposed by the radio station's head of football commentary Ted Whitten ( who at the time was in the early stages of affliction of cancer ).

The International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) call sign prefix allocated for all radio and television broadcasts in Barbados is 8P, and this replaced the former ZN as a British territory.

He is the only canonized saint to have held an amateur radio license, with the call sign SP3RN.

Unlike all other D-M aircraft at the time, the 23rd TASS fleet's tail flash read " NF ", for " Nail FAC "; the squadron's radio call sign was " Nail.

He rides a green version of the red vehicle he used to push the white button and finds four interesting things ; Willie Trombone's house, A sign that says " The cannon was put here by Hoborg " with " Hoborg " crossed out and replaced with " Klogg ", a radio in the wall that plays Willie's favorite song and 3 beakers with different coloured liquids.

Webb was a stickler for accurate details, and Dragnet used many authentic touches, such as the LAPD's actual radio call sign ( KMA367 ), and the names of many real department officials, such as Ray Pinker and Lee Jones of the crime lab or Chief of Detectives ( and later LAPD Chief from 1967 – 69 ) Thad Brown.

The need for monitoring became greater when radio was adopted for military signaling.

Finally, Mama did mention to Mrs. Coolidge that she felt sorry for the little dogs, and then Mrs. Coolidge decided to leave the radio on for them while she was gone, even though her husband disapproved of the waste of electricity.

therefore, only with precise foreknowledge of the line frequencies is an astronomical search for the radio spectra of these molecules feasible.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

KARL provides experience for students who wish to pursue careers in radio.

Not all the observers have used the same procedures or made the same assumptions about the lunar brightness distribution when reducing the data, and this, together with differences in the methods of calibrating the antennae and receivers, must account for much of the disagreement in the measured radio brightness temperatures.

He did not bother with his radio -- there would be time for that later -- but as he scrambled out on the pavement he saw the filling station and the public telephone booth and knew instantly how he had been summoned.

He said that on his tour the preceding year a considerable number of hours would have been available to him on Japanese radio networks, but that he had then lacked the funds to contract for them.

These and other figures and comments have been reported in a special supplement of Sponsor magazine, a trade publication for radio and TV advertisers.

For 10 years Sponsor has issued an annual survey of the size and characteristics of the Negro market and of successful techniques for reaching this market through radio.

In recent days there have been extensive lamentations over the absence of original drama on television, but not for years have many regretted the passing of new plays on radio.

In a raucous take-off on radio commercials, Singer Ray Stevens hawks a cure-all for neuritis, neuralgia, head-cold distress, beriberi, overweight, fungus, mungus and water on the knee.

that he must have since he was there like the radio for you to turn on or snap off when you got tired of him, that other guy.

Some amateur astronomers use home-made radio telescopes, while others use radio telescopes that were originally built for astronomy research but have since been made available for use by amateurs.

Seaborg leaked the synthesis of the elements 95 and 96 on the U. S. radio show for children, the Quiz Kids, five days before the official presentation at an American Chemical Society meeting on 11 November 1945, when one of the listeners asked whether any new transuranium element beside plutonium and neptunium had been discovered during the war.

Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

Amplitude modulation ( AM ) is a technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave.

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).