irishREPUBLICANarmy's definitions

kiddie crack

street name 4 fun dip

Yo! hit me up for some of that kiddie crack

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 20, 2003

de-icer

pilot speak:

A device designed to operate under all weather conditions, except icing.

United 460, ice at FL 370 and FL 250, be advised.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 22, 2003

U-boat

literally "unterseeboot" or German for "Under water boat"

OK, It's a German submarine.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 21, 2003

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

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

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

full quieting

A phenomenon on FM transmissions where the incoming signal is sufficient to engage the receiver limiters - thus eliminating the noise due to amplitude fluctuations.

"Roger that Ground Team Alpha, we got you full quieting."

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 1, 2004