IRISHREPUBLICANARMY's definitions

spaceballs

Mel Brooks' best movie, and one of the funnyest movies ever made, next to Airplane!

"Spaceball One"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

SWL

Short
Wave
Listener

in other words, a radio operator who listens to short wave radio transmissions and spends all of his time hunched in front of a 5000 dollar radio, is usally a cracker and a loser

"The only real radio operators are hams, SWLs suck"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

REM

Rapid Eye Movement
a great rock band whos best records are probably "Out Of Time" "Document" and "Automatic For The People"

they sing about what rock 'n' roll was orginnally about, being against mainstream society, but some so-called rock music see punk-pop and MTV hs distorted what REM really is, listen to the lyrics on "Its The End Of The World As We Know It" and "Losing My Religion"

all in all a pretty good band, up there with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Led Zeppelin

"Man R.E.M. and rock alltogether rocks, MTV and rap sucks gay cock"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

Transmitter

noun.
1) a device used to send out information (see radio) usally an AM or FM broadcast transmitter, a waste of power, some AM stations use 40,000,000 watts, and your radio picks up like 0.0001 watts, pretty neat system, altough most radio systems consist of two or more transceivers that can send and recive radio waves without the need for a T/X switch.

"The WTOP-AM 1500 transmitter is jamming my TV"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

echo

The desegnation for the letter 'E' in military/radio/aircraft alphabet

Roger Tango Echo (unit T.E.)
this is foxtrot mike six, engage target and switch to VHF 41.75

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

alpha

the letter 'A' in the international radio phonetic alphabet

also used in military radio slang for comanding officer or radio station

Tango six one this is alpha

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

squawk

Pilot slang for the transponder code being used to indentify the aircraft on radar. The code is made up of four digits, and all codes are used but 0000, try using that code in a civilian aircraft and watch how fast the air force lights your ass up. For normal flight the code is 1200, Hijack code is 7500, radio being jammed is 7600 and general mayday call is 7700. These are discrete codes from 7600 to 7677 and 7701 to 7785 also, but I cant tell you what they are for...

Jetblue 834 this is Dulles Control, squawk 4932 please and climb to 15000.

Roger dulles control, squawking.

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003