DX

Radio term for "extended distance".
What "extended distance" really is could be 100 miles, 1000 miles, 10,000 miles, it is pretty grey as to an exact number or distance.
11-meter pirate radio operators use the frequency of 27.555 MHz (27555.0 kHz) for DX calling.
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pantaphobia

Lucy Van Pelt: maybe you have pantaphobia

Charlie Brown: Thats it!
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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.
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Forest Gump

an excellant movie...need i say more?
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Saint Patrick's Day

one of the better holidays, where people who aren't even irish pretend to be, and everyone gets drunk.
On Saint Patrick's Day, we all wore green hats and drank whiskey
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desensitization

The reduction of receiver sensitivity due to overload from a nearby transmitter
We desensitized by HF reciever by transmitting music on 6955 kHz all new year's eve
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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.
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