ultrawave

COLLINS: ... can change regarding or depending on which machine you use, but is it because these are sort of that ultrawave -- ultrasound technology that you're talking about that they won't really vary?

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Pham kept a close watch on the EM and ultrawave windows.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

Failing that, local civilizations should be reimbursed for forwarding ultrawave traces.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

Ravna reached for her keyboard, asked the ship to attempt both ultrawave comm and a radio link.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

They wouldn't have radio communication until they arrived -- and she hadn't figured out how to recalibrate the ultrawave for shortrange transmission.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

The ultrawave stuff is still on the boat and it's too big to move.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

It was up to Ravna to decide what library materials to move to the ship, to balance the ease of local availability against the greater resources that would be accessible over the ultrawave from Relay.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

The rest is an ultrawave surge so great that ordinary matter is affected ....

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

The "local net" was a RIP-wide ultrawave computer and communication network, perhaps a billion times more complex than anything Pham had known -- but conceptually similar to organizations in the Slow Zone.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

But it was connected to the ship's ultrawave comm, and that was still programmed to track their rescuers.

A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992