ALE

Automatic Link Establishment (station)

In high-frequency (HF) radio, the capability of a station to make contact, or initiate a circuit, between itself and another specified radio station, without human intervention and usually under emergency conditions. ALE stations are generally computer-controlled.

The Air Force has ALE frequencies in the 11 and 19 MHz bands.

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 24, 2004

Forest Gump

an excellant movie...need i say more?

Life is like a box of chocolates...

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 12, 2003

base loading

A loading coil at the bottom of an antenna to achieve a lower resonant frequency.

The CB antenna i use for freeband 27 MHz operations uses a base loading coil to lower the frequency to the 27 MHz band.

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 01, 2004

freezing rain

Freezing rain occurs when the tempurature in the cloud and directly below the cloud are above freezing (32 degrees F), and the ground or surfaces that the rain hits are below 32 degrees. The result is big enough to shut the Washington DC metro area down for a few days.

We had freezing rain last night, so they cancelled school for a week.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 04, 2003

worst hour of the year

That hour of the year during which the median noise over any radio path is at a maximum.

Note: This hour is considered to coincide with the hour during which the greatest transmission loss occurs.

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 24, 2004

DTMF

Dual Tone Multiple Frequency. Pressing a button on the keypad of a touch-tone phone generates a pair of tones of specified frequency and duration. The network or the equipment at the other end of the connection (such as a remote control for a phone answering machine, or a telephone interconnect system) detects and interprets these tones. In analog networks, audible tones generated by the network provide the call progress indications to the user. Different tones allow the human ear to interpret the progress of the call. On digital networks (such as PBX or ISDN), the network may send indication messages to the phone to indicate the status of the call, and the phone may generate most tones locally, driven by those messages.

(touch tone® dialing format)

by IRISHREPUBLICANARMY January 10, 2004

Agent White

the less potent and more expensive alternative to Agent Orange

sense it costs more money and kills less VC, the United States pretty much never used it during the Vietnam War.

by IrishRepublicanArmy March 03, 2004