radio range

noun

|Updated on: 2 May 2018

Definition of radio range

: a radio facility for aircraft navigation

Recent Examples of radio range from the Web

EPIRBs are designed to activate on contact with the water, communicating to the Coast Guard that a vessel is in trouble even when a boat is out of radio range.

— Outside Online, "In Search of the Vanished Destination," 17 Apr. 2018
And then, before more students could ask about space suits, dizziness, injuries, dreams, or how exactly one fixes a space station toilet, the International Space Station flew beyond radio range.

— steve rubenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, "Orbiting astronaut talks life in space with San Bruno students via ham radio," 7 Mar. 2018
Because the operation would take place far from Israeli airspace, beyond Israel’s radar and radio range, the air force had to set up an airborne command post, in the form of a Boeing 707 fitted with radar and communications equipment.

— ronen bergman, New York Times, "How Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine," 23 Jan. 2018

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