Transmitter

noun.
1) a device used to send out information (see radio) usally an AM or FM broadcast transmitter, a waste of power, some AM stations use 40,000,000 watts, and your radio picks up like 0.0001 watts, pretty neat system, altough most radio systems consist of two or more transceivers that can send and recive radio waves without the need for a T/X switch.

"The WTOP-AM 1500 transmitter is jamming my TV"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

holding pattern

The term applied to the dogfight in progress over any radio facility serving a terminal airport.

ATC: Cessna 78 Romeo, enter holding pattern

Me: Oh crap

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 22, 2003

cuban number station

It is not known exactly what they are there, but its pretty much transmitted enigma in CW mode and then a bunch of numbers (in Spanish) in AM mode. It sounds like a female computer voice.

Cuban number stations can be monitored all across North America.

CUBAN NUMBER STATION COMMON JAMMING FREQUENCIES:

3060 (very common on the 6.6 MHz pirate radio band also)
3090
3292 6867 7648 8790 11215
3410 6872 7682 8873 11468
3444 6888 7726 8980 12144
3926 6890 7743 8992 13373
40176892 7755 9120 13419
4020 6920 7845 9140 14180
4027 6933 7860 9237 14736
4174 6935 7887 9251 14770
4601 6983 7890 9255 14825
4610 6953 8010 9330 17425
4328 6942 8018 9925 17520
4479 6768 6995 8066 10125 18035
5087 6778 7425 8126 10180 18434
5118 6787 7435 8136 10270 20316
5135 6797 7480 8150 10345 21865
5407 6800 7482 8165 10510
5415 6825 7520 8186 10713
5417 6840 7525 8240 10865
5420 6856 7580 8380 11125

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 10, 2003

FDR

Flight Data Recorder

Ummmmm.......i dont think the engine is supposed to be doing that........(impact sound)

by irishrepublicanarmy December 24, 2003

Air Traffic Control

A game played by airline pilots and air traffic controllers. The game has no rules, and neither side knows how it is played, but the goal is to prevent flights from arriving in time for passengers to make connecting flights.

Flying used to be fun, but its not with this air traffic control shit.

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 24, 2004

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 04, 2004

FRS jammer

usally this:

a device (usally a heavly modified FRS base station radio) that has been set up to jam frequencies in the FRS radio band, used to annoy little kids and to hold a channel for yourself. Some FRS jammers even add music to thier transmissions, which makes it all the more interesting.

"I can't hear anything on channel, that radio op's got his FRS jammer on again"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 15, 2003