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
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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
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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
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Mayday

international distress radio code word, when using voice transmission

SOS is the morse code version

MAYDAY is reconized internationally as an emergency code on any type of radio system, and should be taken seriously.
"Coast Guard, this is the Andrea Gail, MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY"
by IrishRepublicanArmy October 28, 2003
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pantaphobia

Lucy Van Pelt: maybe you have pantaphobia

Charlie Brown: Thats it!
by IRISHrepublicanARMY January 26, 2004
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Forest Gump

an excellant movie...need i say more?
by IrishRepublicanArmy December 12, 2003
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can of worms

a source of many unpredictable and complicated problems
by irishrepublicanarmy January 02, 2004
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