{"id":111260,"date":"2026-07-04T12:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=111260"},"modified":"2026-07-04T12:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T07:06:54","slug":"radio-telemetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/radio-telemetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Telemetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Radio Telemetry Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radio telemetry data helped conservationists repeatedly protect the radio-tagged <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/white-rumped-vulture\/\" target=\"_blank\">White-rumped vulture<\/a><\/strong> Z25, but the bird was ultimately killed in a collision with a power transmission line. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Radio Telemetry<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radio telemetry involves <\/span><b>using radio waves <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to <\/span><b>automatically transmit data <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from remote or <\/span><b>inaccessible sources to a receiving station<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for monitoring and analysis.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is commonly used in <\/span><b>wildlife tracking, weather monitoring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, industrial process control, and<\/span><b> medical monitoring<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><b>gather data without needing physical access to the source.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Radio Telemetry in Wildlife Tracking<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Since the 1960s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, scientists have been using radio telemetry to <\/span><b>track wildlife, studying their migration patterns,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> behaviors, and <\/span><b>habits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Radio telemetry <\/span><b>uses radio signals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which are made up of invisible and silent electromagnetic waves, <\/span><b>to determine location.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A radio telemetry system is made up of <\/span><b>three parts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>a radio transmitter, a radio antenna, and a radio receiver.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>transmitter <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">can be <\/span><b>attached or tagged to the subject using <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a <\/span><b>collar, an ear tag, or a wing tag for birds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in particular. It is the part that<\/span><b> transmits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or sends, the<\/span><b> radio signal.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> operator uses an antenna, attached to a receiver<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is programmed to the transmitter\u2019s frequency, <\/span><b>to pick up the radio signals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> given off by the transmitter affixed to the target animal.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Receiver antennas may be hand-held, mounted on an object<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or affixed to towers to avoid interference from buildings and trees.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They may <\/span><b>also be fixed to a vehicle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, boat, or aircraft to allow the operator to exploit larger areas.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>radio signals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are then<\/span><b> transformed into a beeping sound<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the receiver.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>As the receiver gets closer <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to the transmitter, the <\/span><b>beeps get louder,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> meaning the animal wearing the transmitter is close by.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researcher can <\/span><b>use this audible clue to locate and follow the animal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wearing the transmitter.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Limitations<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, unlike GPS satellite tracking, radio telemetry <\/span><b>requires researchers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><b>remain within the signal range of the transmitter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to locate the tagged animal.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other limitation is the <\/span><b>size and lifespan of the battery<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> required to power the transmitter.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>New<\/b><strong>s: <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/192474\/OPS\/GD6G6UMVP.1+GTCG70KJH.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Telemetry involves using radio waves to automatically transmit data from remote or inaccessible sources to a receiving station for monitoring and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":111267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8495],"class_list":{"0":"post-111260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-radio-telemetry","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111295,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111260\/revisions\/111295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}