Radio wave by radio receivers, using antennas. Radio waves are very widely used in modern technology for fixed and mobile radio communication, broadcasting, radar and other navigation systems, communications satellites, wireless computer networks and many other applications. Different frequencies of radio waves have different propagation characteristics in the Earth's atmosphere; long waves can diffract around obstacles like mountains and follow the contour of the earth (ground waves), shorter waves can reflect off the ionosphere and return to earth beyond the horizon (skywaves), while much shorter wavelengths bend or diffract very little and travel on a line of sight, so their propagation distances
Waves Radio In addition to these, a weekly news magazine programme, Making Waves, is broadcast on Sunday evenings from 6.00pm - 7.00pm. The Sportsdesk, a daily round up of sports news, is broadcast at 5.20pm on weekdays. On Saturday afternoons scores and results are updated from 2-6pm on the Sportsmix. 1. History Waves Radio Waves Radio is a local radio station based in Peterhead, North East Scotland. The station is on air 24 hours a day with live shows from 6am till 10pm (apart from "a wave of hits" from 6pm-7pm on weekdays which is automated). Waves Radio was born in 1990