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The British Virgin Islands is perhaps the easiest due to line-of-sight sailing and two-hour island hops.
Susan Fogwell: Bareboat Sailing Options In The Caribbean Susan Fogwell 2012
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Situated out on a low spread of farmland at the foot of the Cascades, the FOB typically had to rely on sky surveillance rather than line-of-sight from its spidery signal tower.
365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009
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The WiGig Alliance (and other companies promoting 60 GHz radios) gets around this line-of-sight limitation by bouncing the signal off walls, and even people, making it less of an issue, unless your living room is particularly cavernous.
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As others have noted and will note, this spectrum is useful only for line-of-sight applications or over a very short distance (in the same room, say).
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The downside to this is that the technology is limited to one room, and it generally requires a line-of-sight connection to transmit the signals.
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Additionally, Bluetooth doesn't require line-of-sight with the transmitter.
CES 2011: Samsung joins the Smart TV set, adds inches to TV lines 2011
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The two airborne vehicles aren't dissimilar, although models are flown within line-of-sight while the drones are guided by pilots at farther remove on the ground and have the potential for autonomous flight and navigation.
Earthbound Jet Jockeys Caught in Dogfight With FAA Susan Carey 2011
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The module communicates with the remote control via radio frequency (RF) rather than infrared (IR) so line-of-sight isn't required.
Bose to launch its first TV, the VideoWave Entertainment System 2010
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Despite the seemingly remote location, I get 4 bars on my cell phone when I'm standing at the top of the knoll, since a cell tower is located within line-of-sight, 10 miles away.
Boing Boing 2009
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I believe the range today is only 10s of meters line-of-sight with this technology.
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