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  2. Amateur radio repeater - Wikipedia

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    An SSTV repeater is an amateur radio repeater station that relays slow-scan television signals. A typical SSTV repeater is equipped with a HF or VHF transceiver and a computer with a sound card, which serves as a demodulator/modulator of SSTV signals. SSTV repeaters are used by amateur radio operators for exchanging pictures.

  3. Repeater (horology) - Wikipedia

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    Repeater watches were much harder to make than repeater clocks; fitting the bells, wire gongs and complicated striking works into a pocketwatch movement was a feat of fine watchmaking. So repeating watches were expensive luxuries and status symbols; as such they survived the introduction of artificial illumination and a few are still made today.

  4. Repeater - Wikipedia

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    Cellular repeater: This is a radio repeater for boosting cell phone reception in a limited area. The device functions like a small cellular base station , with a directional antenna to receive the signal from the nearest cell tower , an amplifier, and a local antenna to rebroadcast the signal to nearby cell phones.

  5. Wireless repeater - Wikipedia

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    A wireless repeater (also called wireless range extender or wifi extender) is a device that takes an existing signal from a wireless router or wireless access point and rebroadcasts it to create a second network.

  6. Passive repeater - Wikipedia

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    A typical microwave repeater link setup, this one located near Salt Lake City, Utah, USA(removed in 2013) Operation principle. A passive repeater or passive radio link deflection, is a reflective or sometimes refractive panel or other object that assists in closing a radio or microwave link, in places where an obstacle in the signal path blocks any direct, line of sight communication.

  7. Redstone (rocket family) - Wikipedia

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    The Redstone family of rockets consisted of a number of American ballistic missiles, sounding rockets and expendable launch vehicles operational during the 1950s and 1960s. The first member of the Redstone family was the PGM-11 Redstone missile, from which all subsequent variations of the Redstone were derived.

  8. Redstone Solar Thermal Power - Wikipedia

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    Redstone Solar Thermal Power (RSTP) is a solar power tower with molten salt energy storage, located in Postmasburg, near Kimberley, in the Northern Cape Region of South Africa. Redstone will have a capacity of 100 megawatts (MW) to deliver power to 200,000 people and was awarded in bid window 3.5 of the REIPPP at a strike price of 122.3 ZAR/KWh ...

  9. Cookson repeater - Wikipedia

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    Until the Nineteenth century, the only mechanism that could fire faster was the Kalthoff repeater, which was more delicate and expensive. However, unlike the Kalthoff, the Cookson system had a dangerous flaw in that flame could leak from the firing chamber into the powder magazine, making the gun explode at high risk to the user.