radio contact
Transmitted voice link
Radio contact is communication established via radio transmission between two parties.
To make radio contact or establish radio contact is to successfully reach someone by radio; to lose radio contact is to have that connection break.
The phrase often appears in contexts involving aircraft, ships, or remote expeditions where radio may be the only means of communication: We lost radio contact with the expedition three days ago.
- transmissionSending of information
- clear signalUnambiguous transmitted message
- frequencyRate of recurrence
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- walkie-talkiePortable handheld radio transceiver
dispatch · crackle · over · over and out · go ahead · roger · mayday · ham · antenna · shortwave · broadcast · tuning · squelch · airwaves · distress · search and rescue · copy · come in
- ship's logdate, time, position, coordinates, latitude
- ship interactionsboarding, grappling, broadside, cannon fire, ramming
- seamanshipseamanship, steering, anchoring, navigation, chartwork
- cold survivalhypothermia, frostbite, cold exposure, survival kit, emergency shelter
- airspacerestricted airspace, military airspace, no-fly zone, no-fly zones, prohibited area
radio contactphysical presence
Being somewhere in body
written correspondence · visual communication · face-to-face meeting · hand signals · smoke signals
radio contactradio silence
Absence of broadcast communication
communication blackout · dead air · out of range · no signal · communication breakdown
radio, contact, radios, contacts, contacted, contacting, radiate, radiation, radiant