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medium wave

British

noun

1. a radio wave with a wavelength between 100 and 1000 metres
2. ( as modifier )
  
  a medium-wave broadcast

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After a successful application to Ofcom, Radio Caroline has been given the medium wave frequency of 648kHz - once used by the BBC World Service.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2017

This is one of five new medium wave community licences to be announced by regulator, Ofcom.

From BBC • May 19, 2017

It allows the service, which is currently an internet and digital station, to broadcast on medium wave to Suffolk and parts of north Essex.

From BBC • May 19, 2017

Recently Britain muscled into this Nazi preserve, using the most powerful transmitting station in Europe to bring English propaganda on medium wave to every set in Europe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Every evening we had two broadcasts, at 7.30 and 10.30 pm, which went out on the medium wave transmitter of Radio Cairo at Abu Zabal, run by the E.S.B.

From The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view by Joly, Norman F.

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