irishREPUBLICANarmy's definitions

Jammer

(radio)

a radio transmitter which is designed or modified to send a signal which deliberately inferes with another radio signal. (see also FRS jammer)

Jammers are most widly used by thegovernment and military in order to make it harder for the enemy to use their radio systems.

Also fun when directed at a rap radio station.

Dude! I jammed the rap radio station with the Spongebob theme song for 36 hours!

by IrishRepublicanArmy November 13, 2003

PRC-77

the PRC doesn't stand for anything.

the PRC-77 (and the improved PRC-770) are military VHF FM transcievers, that have been used sence 1960, and are slowly being phased out because the US Army likes them.

Frequency Coverage:
30.0000 to 76.0000 MHz
channel spacing:
50 kHz
channels:
920
Power Output:
5 watts
Range:
10 miles on a bad day
5 miles when the VC are shooting at you
30 miles when you get back to base

PRC-77s are used as manpack radios (straped to the back of GIs and used for unit-to-unit communications), if you've ever seen the movie "Platoon", the PRC-77 is the radio that all the Americans are carrying on thier backs.
or they are installed as radios in Humvees and tanks. (i.e. all the antennas on military viecles are connected to PRC-77s.

widly copied by every NATO member, so all the good guys can talk to each other.

"Roger, get the PRC-77 on 41.75 and call HQ"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 21, 2003

South Lakes High School

South Lakes for short, its pretty ghetto, even Fairfax High School is better.

See South Lakes for definitions by people that really go there.

by IRISHREPUBLICANARMY January 7, 2004

blah

1) pompous or pretentious talk or writing

2) when you having nothing else to say, you say "blah"

example too short? WTF?

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 26, 2003

AM

Amplitude Modulation

a way of applying information (voice or music) to a radio signal, beaten by SSB and then FM.

also: the old broadcast band from 530 to 1710 kHz.

"nobody listens to AM anymore"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 12, 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

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