He and Joe listened for a response, but the faint signal continued unchanged.
They could also be used for detection of fainter signals than is possible now.
"There's a very faint scrambled signal coming over," he said.
Then, in the early light, they picked up a very faint signal and the automatic linking system was put into action.
He caught Dumarest's eye, saw the faint signal, and shook his head.
In the meantime, Mac had his cell phone on and seemed to be receiving a faint signal.
'I'm getting a faint signal from the car,' he said.
Efforts to send commands to the spacecraft and listen for its faint signals have been cut to once a week.
This low power reduces the portable phone's ability to pick up faint signals.
And, thinking this, she knew that the thought itself was the first, faint, early signal of recovery.