IrishrepublicanArmy's definitions

sub rosa

Translated from Latin, this means "under the rose" and is a term frequently used for surveillance but can also mean any type of undercover or discrete investigation. We provide sub rosa/surveillance services both to private parties and to commercial firms.

see pirate radio for where i used this word.

by irishrepublicanarmy December 31, 2003

foot warmer

CB radio slang for an illegal amplifier (usally a modified 10/12 meter ham radio amp.) which brings the 4W AM (12W SSB). output to something like 1000 watts or sometimes higher. As a result, the 26.965 to 27.405 MHz band is littered with stations jamming a single channel and not allowing anyone else to use it (AM does not have the "capture effect" that FM does.) because that person is using a "foot warmer" and it congests the frequency so much that it is unusable, and in turn, more people buy "foot warmers" to combat this interferance from distant stations, and thus the cycle continues.

If everyone who used illegal amplifiers was to stop using thier illegal equipment, range and interferance problems would lessen even for those who abandoned thier illegal equipment.

Dude! Hide your foot warmer, here comes uncle charlie!

Roger that, CRYSTAL PALACE BASE CONTROL has a foot warmer.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 8, 2003

Error Reporting

One of the most annoying 'features of Windows XP. However, it does produce the orgasmic feeling of telling Microsoft that there has been yet another problem with thier "operating" system

Windows Error Reporting has encountered an error, would you like you send an error report?

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 30, 2004

Confederate Air Force

The confederate air force is an organization that preserves warbirds (i.e. aircraft from past wars).

That i just saw CAF aluminum overcast with the Civil Air Patrol

by IrishRepublicanArmy November 22, 2003

LORAN

Long Range Aid to Navigation.

ghetto navigation type now that we have GPS

my airplane still has a LORAN-C receiver.

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 1, 2004

RTO

Short for "Radio Telephone Operator"

"RTO" is a military term for a radio operator or a radioman, usally the guy with the manpack PRC-77 or PRC-117 radio on thier back, with large antenna and telephone headset microphone.

"Johnson! get the RTO over here and tell HQ they've got RPGs!

by IrishRepublicanArmy November 7, 2003

pilot

One of the members of the human race that has high intellengence, poor spelling and handwriting, pilots have good looks, and all the hot girls want them.

so HA!

Pilots Rock!

stop listening to rap!

by IrishRepublicanArmy November 22, 2003