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121Burglar alarm — Silent alarm redirects here. For the album, see Silent Alarm (album). Burglar (or intrusion), fire and safety alarms are all electronic today. Sensors are connected to a control unit via a low voltage hardwire or narrowband RF signal which is… …
122Code division multiple access — This article is about a channel access method. For the mobile phone technology referred to as CDMA, see IS 95 and CDMA2000. Multiplex techniques Circuit mode (constant bandwidth) TDM · FDM  …
123Base station — The term base station can be used in the context of land surveying, wireless computer networking, and wireless communications.Land surveyingIn the context of external land surveying, a base station is a GPS receiver at an accurately known fixed… …
124Fading — This article is about signal loss in telecommunications. For the poetry book, see Fading (book). For other uses, see Fade (disambiguation). Frequency selective time varying fading causes a cloudy pattern to appear on a spectrogram. Time is shown… …
125Coherer — Metal filings coherer The coherer was a primitive form of radio signal detector used in the first radio receivers during the wireless telegraphy era at the beginning of the twentieth century. Invented around 1890 by French scientist Édouard… …
126Cordless telephone — A cordless telephone with base. A cordless telephone or portable telephone is a telephone with a wireless handset that communicates via radio waves with a base station connected to a fixed telephone line, usually within a limited range of its… …
127FM broadcasting — See also: frequency modulation and FM broadcast band FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation (FM) to provide high fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term FM band… …
128GPS navigation device — Bicycle navigation with Gosmore, an open source routing software, on a personal navigation assistant with free map data from OpenStreetMap. A GPS navigation device is any device that receives Global Positioning System (GPS) signals for the… …
