irishrepublicanarmy's definitions

U-boat

literally "unterseeboot" or German for "Under water boat"

OK, It's a German submarine.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 21, 2003

Dependency Theory

A theory that argues that, due to the exploitative nature of the relationship between advanced capitalist (western) societies and the Third World, the development of the former resulted in the underdevelopment of the latter. Because of its reliance on external sources of demand and investment opportunities, Western capitalism penetrated virtually all parts of the Third World and eventually laid down the foundations of dominance-dependence relationship structures between North and South which tended to engender and perpetuate underdevelopment in the Third World. According to this theory, exchanges between the North and the South, such as trade, foreign investment, and aid, are asymmetric and tend to stifle the development of the latter and to reinforce their dependence. The theory also contends that local elites with vested interest in the structure of dominance and in monopolizing (monopoly) domestic power cooperate with international capitalist elites to perpetuate the international capitalist system.

See also HF allocation, the example.

by IrishRepublicanArmy March 4, 2004

VFW

Veterans of Foreign Wars

young people these days have no respect for what thier fathers and grandfathers have done to protect this great nation.

by irishrepublicanarmy January 2, 2004

MHz

Pronunciated: "Megahertz" not "M.H.Z."

Megahertz means 1000 kilohertz (kHz) and kilohertz means 1000 Hz (cycles per second)

1 MHz = 1000 kHz = 1,000,000 Hz

Wow, sense I listen to DC101, who has a transmitter on 101.1 MHz, thats 101,100 kHz, which is 101,100,000 Hz (cycles per second)

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 21, 2003

VX-150

see vertex for a better definition.

I use my VX-150 for Civil Air Patrol radio communications.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 20, 2003

Type 4 Algorithm

Unclassified cryptographic algorithm that has been registered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, but is not a Federal Information Processing Standard. NTIA

I don't know who used the TYPE FOUR, in fact, I don't even have a HF receiver.

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 24, 2004

FRS jammer

usally this:

a device (usally a heavly modified FRS base station radio) that has been set up to jam frequencies in the FRS radio band, used to annoy little kids and to hold a channel for yourself. Some FRS jammers even add music to thier transmissions, which makes it all the more interesting.

"I can't hear anything on channel, that radio op's got his FRS jammer on again"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 15, 2003