Word: megahertz
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...trick will be to keep up with the competition while maintaining universal delivery. That famous promise -- ``Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers . . . '' -- engraved on New York City's main post office has a more reassuring ring to a citizen whose new 100-megahertz multimedia PowerPC just crashed for the third time. By Suneel Ratan/Washington
...Clinton Administration will permit commercial users to take over a large chunk of the radio band that is now controlled by the Pentagon and other federal agencies. The auctioning of 200 megahertz worth of airspace will take 10 years to complete and could raise as much as $7 billion in revenue for the government...
Some searchers, including Horowitz, have suggested that there are "magic frequencies," common frequencies which would be likely to be used by extraterrestrials eager to communicate. One of these is 1420 megahertz, which is the neutral hydrogen frequency. As Arnold explains, "No matter where you are in the universe, you'll know about hydrogen. Even if you have four eyes...
...response from Martin: "The sensors only respond to infrared light at 40 megahertz...
...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...