CQ

Calling any amateur radio station, may be sent in CW, phone or some digital modes. Directly translated from morse code, it means "calling all stations"

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VX-150

see vertex for a better definition.

I use my VX-150 for Civil Air Patrol radio communications.

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cordless phone

1) Pretty much a phone with a full-duplex (i.e. tranmit on one frequency and recieve on another, and it always transmitting and recieving) (radio), and that allows both people on the line can yell at each other at the same time.

2) A device permantly attachted to a teenybopper.

Whats great is, people think cordless phones cannot be listened to, but sense it uses radio waves to be 'cordless', then anyone with a scanning reciever on the base (this is a duplex system, remember) can listen to BOTH sides of the conversation.

In my free time, i listen to my neighbor's cordless phone conversations on my radioshack radio scanner.

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703

The area code for Northern Virginia

for more information about the NOVA area, look at theses definitions:
Fairfax County Public Schools
Virginia
NOVA
Chantilly High School
Fairfax High School

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Confederate Air Force

The confederate air force is an organization that preserves warbirds (i.e. aircraft from past wars).

That i just saw CAF aluminum overcast with the Civil Air Patrol

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launch

1) a small boat tied to a larger boat, used for rescue and for driving around having a good time

2) a small bass-type fishing or pontoon boat driven by crew coaches while they give crew rowers kind suggustions and commands on how to improve our rowing skills.

3) they smell like gasoline

Crew is a real sport, and the real coaches of real sports drive launches

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worst hour of the year

That hour of the year during which the median noise over any radio path is at a maximum.

Note: This hour is considered to coincide with the hour during which the greatest transmission loss occurs.

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