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STATION-RELAIS [6 records]

Record 1 2008-09-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Radar, Radio Guidance and Goniometry
  • Telecommunications Transmission
CONT

A satellite is a wireless receiver/transmitter that operates in orbit around the earth and acts as a microwave relay station, receiving signals sent from a ground-based station, amplifying them, and retransmitting them on a different frequency to another groundbased station.

OBS

radio relay; RR: term and abbreviation officially approved by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

Key term(s)
  • radio relay station

French

Domaine(s)
  • Radar, radioguidage et radiogoniométrie
  • Transmission (Télécommunications)
DEF

Station réémettrice assurant le relayage d'un faisceau hertzien lorsque l'antenne de réception n'est pas en visibilité directe de l'antenne d'émission.

OBS

Dans le cas le plus fréquent d'un relais hertzien au sol, celui-ci comprend essentiellement un pylône ou une tour portant deux ou plusieurs antennes paraboliques et abritant les appareils de réception et réémission des signaux.

OBS

Peut être constitué par un satellite de télécommunications.

Key term(s)
  • station-relais

Spanish

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Record 2 1987-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
  • Radio Broadcasting
DEF

a station licensed to transmit, from points where wire facilities are not available, programs for broadcast by one or more broadcast station.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
  • Radiodiffusion
DEF

station qui reçoit d'un émetteur un signal quelconque et qui l'achemine, après amplification, vers un autre émetteur ou une autre station de même nature.

Spanish

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Record 3 1985-11-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Signalling (Rail Transport)
DEF

communications ferroviaires; DISC, 76, 1248; A station containing one or more repeaters. Also known as relay station.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Signalisation (Transport par rail)
DEF

Fmml; S'il s'agit d'une station. mml 08.78.

Spanish

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Record 4 1981-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telephone Facilities
  • Telecommunications
OBS

a station containing one or more repeaters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations (Téléphonie)
  • Télécommunications
OBS

station qui reçoit les programmes de télévision d'un centre émetteur principal et les retransmet à son tour, augmentant ainsi la zone de rayonnement du centre.

Spanish

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Record 5 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Telecommunications

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télécommunications
OBS

Radio-télévision point de relais (rapp. ann. de Radio-Canada, 1961) station-relais (Piraux, dict. électrotechn. et électronique) point d'amplification (termin.)

Spanish

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Record 6 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Television (Radioelectricity)
  • Radio Broadcasting
DEF

A booster or translator operated by a television station to improve its signal strength in certain portions of its coverage area.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Télévision (Radioélectricité)
  • Radiodiffusion
DEF

Station habituellement télécommandée, placée en dépendance directe d'une station principale sans l'intervention des liaisons de réseau.

Spanish

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