VOR

Very High Frequency
Omnidirectional
Range


a radio-navigation system that consists of ground stations transmitting continous signals within the frequency range of 108.0 to 117.95 MHz. mode of modulation is CW or AM.

The VOR system is used by both civilian and miltary aircraft in conjuction with the GPS and ADF (also known as NDB) radionavagtion systems. The receiver in the aircraft determines the bearing of the station in relation to the direction the aircraft is going. This information is used by the pilot to navagate the aircraft. The VOR system is used worldwide and is less suspectable to the magnetic interferance that the ADF/DME and LORAN systems are.

"Roger, Cessna Five Five Tango, Dulles VOR is on 114.3, advise control you have entered class B airspace."

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echo

The desegnation for the letter 'E' in military/radio/aircraft alphabet

Roger Tango Echo (unit T.E.)
this is foxtrot mike six, engage target and switch to VHF 41.75

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Virginia State Police

Those rockin' dudes you see in dem pimped out crown vics wifh dem bigass VHF antennas in the Commonwealth of Virginia

Frequencies Used By the Virginia State Police (not listing repeater input frequencies).:

039.5400 Statewide Intersystem
042.8600 Base Stations Point to Point
154.6650 Mobile to Mobile
154.6800 Special Protection unit
154.6950 Mobile to Mobile
158.9850 Base to Mobile
159.0000 Base to Mobile
159.1350 Base to Mobile
159.1650 Base to Mobile
453.3500 Mobile Extenders
458.3500 Mobile Extenders

Kshhhht, Fairfax, this is car 596, we got a 10-50 on the interstate.

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calibration

1) The process of comparing an instrument's output signal with reality. Instruments that measure solar energy tend to "drift", that is, their output signals do not mean the same thing from one time period to another. Because of this, they are periodically (annually or semi-annually) re-calibrated against more reliable instruments.

2) Adjusting a measuring instrument to make it accurate. The set of operations which establish, under specified conditions, the relationship between values indicated by a measuring instrument or measuring system and the corresponding values of a quantity realized by a reference standard.

3) The act of adjusting the color of one device relative to another, such as a monitor to a printer, or a scanner to a film recorder. Or, it may be the process of adjusting the color of one device to some established standard.

This radio needs some calibration.

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glycerine

1) a song by Bush
2) An food additive used to retain moisture and to keep marshmallows and candies soft.
3) Secondary product of the alcoholic fermentation. One of the main elements that gives body and smoothness to the wines.
4) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils

Download the song "glycerine" by bush...it kicks ass.

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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'

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gun control

a real joke

stupid soccer moms

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