Soon after the remote camera mounted on Ballard's undersea robot, Argo, spotted the vessel's massive boiler on the ocean floor, Ballard was calling ABC, NBC and CBS from his ship's radio.

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When he first returned to England in 1967, he spent six months working for a pirate radio station on a ship in the North Sea.

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The player-piano rolls in the transmitter (aboard the ship) and receiver (in the torpedo) would be started at exactly the same moment, and would then stay synchronised after launch, providing a secure radio link from the ship to the torpedo.

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Mr Arafat was quoted by Palestinian radio on Sunday as dismissing the arms ship issue as a "false Israeli invention".

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In the mid-sixties, when the BBC was still monopolizing radio in Great Britain, a rogue operator, broadcasting from a ship anchored in the North Sea, plays rock to a country that could only hear the Beatles and the Stones live or by going to a record store.

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If this is correct, it doesn't take a math wizard to understand that having a single radio module that works virtually anywhere means notebook vendors can build a single model of a product and ship it anywhere in the world, knowing it can be activated on any of today's commercial networks.

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