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Transmitter

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A transmitter takes a signal and sends it to a receiver.

This may be a television transmitter sending the waves carrying TV programmes to your television aerial.

There is a transmitter in your mobile phone that sends the signal to the nearest mobile phone mast (antenna).

For light signals the transmitter is a laser that sends light along the optical fibre.

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