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All particle, whether fermions or bosons, are waves. The difference is that fermions can't pile up on top of one another like bosons can, which means they can't form macroscopic classical waves, like light or gravity. This is probably what you mean when you say that "neutrino radio" would be a misnomer. Normal "radio" consists of radio waves, which are macroscopic collections of many, many photons. In principle, you can measure these waves by watching how they tug and pull on charged macroscopic objects.

However, the sense in which neutrinos have wave characteristics is precisely the two-slit sense. (For examples, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_interferometer .) Furthermore, the distinction between fermion and boson is independent of them having mass. There are massive bosons (the W and Z) and, though none yet discovered, plenty of proposed massless fermions.




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