It's a shortwave radio channel. It might be still working.

那是短波，可能还有作用。

It turned out that because Ove's house now lay exactly on the municipal boundary, clearance from the command center was required on the shortwave radio before they could get to work.

原来，欧房子正好落在两市交界处，有关部门需要先通过短波澄清责任，在之前，谁也不能灭火。

Any longer and—for me, at least—the story begins to take on an odd foreign feel, like a dispatch from the Romanian Department of Public Affairs, or something broadcast on high-band shortwave during a period of severe sunspot activity.

至少对我来说，超过了个时间话故事就会产生一种奇怪感，就像是罗马尼亚公共事务部派出一支小分队，或是太阳黑子活动剧烈时候高频短波收音机里播出声音。