irishrepublicanarmy's definitions

desensitization

The reduction of receiver sensitivity due to overload from a nearby transmitter

We desensitized by HF reciever by transmitting music on 6955 kHz all new year's eve

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 1, 2004

Saint Patrick's Day

one of the better holidays, where people who aren't even irish pretend to be, and everyone gets drunk.

On Saint Patrick's Day, we all wore green hats and drank whiskey

by IrishRepublicanArmy March 8, 2004

DTMF

Dual Tone Multiple Frequency. Pressing a button on the keypad of a touch-tone phone generates a pair of tones of specified frequency and duration. The network or the equipment at the other end of the connection (such as a remote control for a phone answering machine, or a telephone interconnect system) detects and interprets these tones. In analog networks, audible tones generated by the network provide the call progress indications to the user. Different tones allow the human ear to interpret the progress of the call. On digital networks (such as PBX or ISDN), the network may send indication messages to the phone to indicate the status of the call, and the phone may generate most tones locally, driven by those messages.

(touch tone® dialing format)

by IRISHREPUBLICANARMY January 10, 2004

GSM

Global System for Mobile communications.

The most common digital cellular system in the world. GSM is used all over Europe, plus many countries in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, South America, Australia, and North America. GSM's air interface is based on narrowband TDMA technology, where available frequency bands are divided into time slots, with each user having access to one time slot at regular intervals. Narrow band TDMA allows eight simultaneous communications on a single radio multiplexor and is designed to support 16 half-rate channels. GSM also is the only technology that provides incoming and outgoing data services, such as email, fax, and internet surfing. GSM makes use of a SIM card that allows memory portability between dumb GSM phones.

The GSM system allowed for both internet surfing and digital voice communications over 1900 MHz radio networks.

by IrishrepublicanArmy January 24, 2004

REM

Rapid Eye Movement
a great rock band whos best records are probably "Out Of Time" "Document" and "Automatic For The People"

they sing about what rock 'n' roll was orginnally about, being against mainstream society, but some so-called rock music see punk-pop and MTV hs distorted what REM really is, listen to the lyrics on "Its The End Of The World As We Know It" and "Losing My Religion"

all in all a pretty good band, up there with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Led Zeppelin

"Man R.E.M. and rock alltogether rocks, MTV and rap sucks gay cock"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 13, 2003

WTOP

A news radio station that calls themself's a network. The fact that they have only three transmitters.

WTOP-AM: 1500.0 kHz
WXTR-AM: 820.0 kHz
WTOP-FM: 107.7 MHz

by IrishRepublicanArmy November 28, 2003

freezing rain

Freezing rain occurs when the tempurature in the cloud and directly below the cloud are above freezing (32 degrees F), and the ground or surfaces that the rain hits are below 32 degrees. The result is big enough to shut the Washington DC metro area down for a few days.

We had freezing rain last night, so they cancelled school for a week.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 4, 2003