IRISHrepublicanARMY's definitions

Emergency Frequencies

Here are some common emergency frequencies:

(in MHz)


000.5000 International Distress (CW)
002.1820 International Distress
002.6700 Calling to US Coast Guard
004.1250 Calling/Distress
006.2155 Calling/Distress
008.2570 Calling/Distress
012.3820 Calling/Distress
016.5220 Calling/Distress
027.0650 CB channel 9, emergency
034.9000 Military Low Band Calling
121.5000 International Distress
156.8000 International Distress
243.0000 International Distress

Monitor 2.182 MHz!

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 21, 2003

radio

1) A form of wireless communications in which the output of the transmitter takes the form of dissipating electromagnetic radiation which spreads outward from the antenna through free space. The signal strength drops off as the square of the distance from the source of radiation. Distant radio receivers have to be very sensitive to detect signals that can measure only a few microvolts per meter in strength.

2) A communications device allowing the wireless transmission through space of audible signals encoded in electromagnetic waves in the approximate frequency range from 10 kilohertz to 300,000 megahertz.

3) (maratime definition) An instrument that uses electromagnetic waves to communicate with other vessels. VHF radios are common for marine use, but are limited in range. HF-SSB (single sideband) radios have longer ranges.

4) an electronic receiver that detects and demodulates and amplifies transmitted signals

5) Radio is a system for the distribution of advertisement, chiefly brand advertisement for package-goods, and advertisement for recorded music sold by BigCos. To describe radio as a system for the diffusion of news, or of music, or as a technology, would be not only inaccurate but actually misleading. Radio is a creature of the advertising business, as its child, TV. television

6) Transmit messages via radio waves, usally on a set wavelength, or frequency.

There are many differant types of radio-frequency modulation, these include AM and FM.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 31, 2003

Radio Scanner

a radio receiver that can quickly switch between two or more channels (today's scanners usally have more then 500 channels) and then stop when the frequency is active. Used by criminals and radio operators to listent to pretty much everything from the police officer asking his buddy to get him more doughnuts and your cordless phone.

"yeah man, i just got a hit on the scanner, the cops are after some black guy"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

WVHF

Pirate Radio forever man!

I transmit pirate radio on the 26.695 to 27.965 MHz band as well as the 69xx kHz pirate band.

by IrishRepublicanArmy February 19, 2004

gigaflop

A billion, i.e. , 10(9), floating point operations per second.

Only supercomputers can run that fast..idiot

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 24, 2004

speaker

1) Electro-acoustic transducer that converts electrical signals into sounds loud enough to be heard at a distance.

2) someone who expresses in language; someone who talks

the leader of the majority party is the Speaker of the House of Representatives

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 26, 2003

SOS

SOS really doesn't stand for anything, as any radio operator will tell you,

it is simply "SOS" becuase the letters S and O are very easy to understand under conditions of high interferance.

so stop saying "Save our whatever"

SOS, SOS, Titanic

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 28, 2003