There is a semantic shift from the sense used in actual radio, and not just due to the change in technology-the new use implies a willing removal from conversation on the part of the communicator, leaving the listener on the other end at a loss for information.ДЄll the state's pointy-headed politicos, myself included, had predicted by now a political storm of epic proportions or, as Alan Lange of Y'all Politics put it, that 'a donnybrook was about to ensue.'Д«ut so far with the June 5 primaries nearly upon us for two of the races. That occurs when the person stops making public announcements or appearances in the media. Robert Ford, Air & Space, June/July 1995Д«ut nowadays we might hear of a celebrity or other normally communicative figure going radio silent or giving nothing but radio silence. I ordered radio silence, then posted lookouts in the navigator's blister. We looked around at each other and realized there was no going back over the Pacific. Pearl Harbor had been attacked by Japanese warplanes and had suffered heavy losses the United States was at war.

ESM, we copy any radio traffic from zero-eight-zero?' 'You think he would have turned back if he missed? And if it was anything but a Bear, he'd have broken radio silence.

And maritime radio operators, for example, might follow a directive of radio silence in order to hear faint distress signals. In military operations, radio silence is usually a command issued from above, as out of fear that a signal might be intercepted by an enemy.

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