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  2. Quindar tones - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, those transmissions would consist of a "beep" (PTT press) followed by Houston talking, then another "beep" (PTT release) and finally the voice of the astronauts. Another misconception about Quindar tones is that they were designed to signal the end of a transmission, similar to a courtesy tone used on many half-duplex radio repeaters .

  3. Beep, beep (sound) - Wikipedia

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    Beep, beep" is onomatopoeia representing a noise, generally of a pair of identical tones following one after the other, often generated by a machine or device such as a car horn. It is commonly associated with the Road Runner (commonly interpreted as "meep meep") in Looney Tunes cartoons featuring the speedy-yet- flightless bird and his ...

  4. Back-up beeper - Wikipedia

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    A back up beeper warns of a garbage truck backing up as it works its way around a cul-de-sac. A white-noise back-up beeper provides a less disruptive alert than the original pure-tone alert. A back-up beeper, also known as back-up alarm or vehicle motion alarm, is a device intended to warn passers-by of a vehicle moving in reverse.

  5. Beep (sound) - Wikipedia

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    A beep is a short, single tone, typically high-pitched, generally made by a computer or other machine. The term has its origin in onomatopoeia . The word "beep-beep" is recorded for the noise of a car horn in 1929, and the modern usage of "beep" for a high-pitched tone is attributed to Arthur C. Clarke in 1951.

  6. Beeper - Wikipedia

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    A beeper is a device that makes a beep sound. Beeper may also refer to: Devices. Avalanche transceiver; Buzzer; Pager; PC speaker, an internal loudspeaker integrated ...

  7. The Martian sounds recorded by the Perseverance rover, so far

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    Snap. Whoosh. Ping. The Mars Perseverance rover, the first robot to record Martian sounds with a real microphone, has already picked up some eerie, extraterrestrial recordings. The sounds ...

  8. CNN bans conservative guest for telling Muslim journalist 'I ...

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    CNN has banned Ryan Girdusky from appearing on the network again after he told Mehdi Hasan "I hope your beeper doesn't go off," an apparent reference to the spate of exploding pagers in Lebanon ...

  9. Bleep censor - Wikipedia

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    A bleep censor is the replacement of profanity and classified information with a beep sound (usually a 1000 Hz sine wave ⓘ), used in public television, radio and social media. History [ edit ]