Word: megahertz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Simon Geller slouches in an easy chair in his darkened apartment, with the windows closed and a chuck steak in the oven, listening to himself on the radio. At the moment, he is broadcasting the ballet Sylvia, by Leo Delibes, on the station he periodically identifies as "WVCA, 104.9 megahertz, in Gloucester, Massachusetts...
...that have survived the current chill between Washington and Moscow. One reason: it requires no transfers of hardware or technology. The only tools the satellites have in common is their electronic "language": they must all be tuned to the standard international radio frequencies for distress calls (121.5 and 243 megahertz). Though the U.S. and Canada tested such electronics on earlier American satellites, the first true U.S. SARSAT will not become operational until next February, when the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's latest Tiros weather satellite goes into orbit...