irishrepublicanarmy's definitions

SWL

Short
Wave
Listener

in other words, a radio operator who listens to short wave radio transmissions and spends all of his time hunched in front of a 5000 dollar radio, is usally a cracker and a loser

"The only real radio operators are hams, SWLs suck"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

Error Reporting

One of the most annoying 'features of Windows XP. However, it does produce the orgasmic feeling of telling Microsoft that there has been yet another problem with thier "operating" system

Windows Error Reporting has encountered an error, would you like you send an error report?

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 30, 2004

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

white noise

(Repeater Term) is a scientific term used to describe a spectrum of broad band noise generated in a receiver's detector and sampled to control the receiver's squelch. This term is often incorrectly used in repeater work to describe the sounds heard when the received transmission is noisy and hard to understand, usually attributed to a weak signal and the repeater receiver limiters are not engaged.

Many people do not understand the correct usage of 'white noise'

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 1, 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

AFC

Automatic Frequency Control, a device used in FM recievers to prevent drift.

My DX-397 has an AFC.

by IrishrepublicanarmY January 1, 2004

VHF

1) The Very High Frequency communcations band from 26.985 to 174 MHz or 30 to 300 MHz, the most popular local (less then 200 mile range) communication band

2) the VHF-AM civilian aircraft communcation band 118 to 137 MHz
see UHF

"Roger, we got you on VHF 122.9"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003