iRishRepublicanaRmy's definitions

Tiocfaidh Ár Lá

"Our day will come" in Irish (Gaelic). Some also interprit it to be something along the lines of "Tommorow is ours"

Tiocfaidh Ár Lá is a popular phrase used by Irish Nationalists...however, me being an IRA supporter, screw them

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 5, 2004

UHF

Ultra High Frequency
-radio transmissions from 300 to 3000 MHz

-the old TV broadcast band, channels 14 to 69.

-a really good album by Wierd Al Yankovic

-any radio system operating in the 300 to 3000 MHz range

-the military aircraft communications band

"Roger Maverick, switch to UHF 365.45"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 12, 2003

pirate radio

Pirate radio stations are usally one or two-person operations airing home-brew entertainment and/or iconoclastic viewpoints. In order to avoid detection by the authorites (The Man, FCC, etc), they tend to appear irregularly, with little concern for the niceties of conventional program scheduling. Most are found in Europe chiefly on weekends and major holidays, and mainly during the evenings in North America, often just above 6200.0 kHz, just below 7000.0 kHz (6955 and 6995 kHz are common pirate frequencies) and just above 7345 kHz. These sub rosa stations and thier addresses are subject to unusally abrupt change or termination, as well as their frequency of transmission, to avoid being cought by the FCC.

Free Radio stations are unlicensed broadcasters. They operate in defiance of FCC rules, which often seem to be more concerned with protecting the big broadcasting interests.

by irishrepublicanarmy December 31, 2003

Dependency Theory

A theory that argues that, due to the exploitative nature of the relationship between advanced capitalist (western) societies and the Third World, the development of the former resulted in the underdevelopment of the latter. Because of its reliance on external sources of demand and investment opportunities, Western capitalism penetrated virtually all parts of the Third World and eventually laid down the foundations of dominance-dependence relationship structures between North and South which tended to engender and perpetuate underdevelopment in the Third World. According to this theory, exchanges between the North and the South, such as trade, foreign investment, and aid, are asymmetric and tend to stifle the development of the latter and to reinforce their dependence. The theory also contends that local elites with vested interest in the structure of dominance and in monopolizing (monopoly) domestic power cooperate with international capitalist elites to perpetuate the international capitalist system.

See also HF allocation, the example.

by IrishRepublicanArmy March 4, 2004

MHz

Pronunciated: "Megahertz" not "M.H.Z."

Megahertz means 1000 kilohertz (kHz) and kilohertz means 1000 Hz (cycles per second)

1 MHz = 1000 kHz = 1,000,000 Hz

Wow, sense I listen to DC101, who has a transmitter on 101.1 MHz, thats 101,100 kHz, which is 101,100,000 Hz (cycles per second)

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 21, 2003

VFW

Veterans of Foreign Wars

young people these days have no respect for what thier fathers and grandfathers have done to protect this great nation.

by irishrepublicanarmy January 2, 2004

whitewater rafting

A fun activity where you put on PFDs (layman; "life jacket"), jump in a rubber raft with little PVC paddles and float down the river....no big deal...until you get flipped over, hit on the head with a rock, hit in the teeth with a paddle, flipped out of the raft, pushed out of the raft, or are simply scared out of your mind and go into fight-or-flight mode with those class 5 rapids coming around the bend.

I was having a fun time whitewater rafting until we hit this class 4 sideways, our raft flipped over, I got sucked into the rapid and popped out about 40 feet away (still holding on to my paddle)...After whitewater rafting (which was a real rush) driving on the beltway doesn't seem so bad.

by irishREPUBLICANarmy January 1, 2004