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medium wave

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noun

    1. a radio wave with a wavelength between 100 and 1000 metres

    2. ( as modifier )

      a medium-wave broadcast

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The BBC said it was "continuing to report fairly and independently in Pashto, Dari and English to our audiences in Afghanistan, on shortwave and medium wave radio, online and via satellite".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

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

U.S. propagandists, who cannot reach the Japanese people by short wave or Australian medium wave, are much impressed with the Voice of China.

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 Norman F. Joly

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