PSK31

A digital transmission mode -- Phase Shift keying with 31.25 baud rate

PSK31 is one of the better HF operating digital modes.

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Squad 51!

An exclamation, from the 70s show Emergency.

It comes from the fire department dispatch guy that goes "Squad 51!"

"(random DTMF tones) Squad 51! (insert random dramatic event here)

"roger, squad 51, KMG365"

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WGS84

World Geodetic System 1984. WGS 84 is an earth fixed global reference frame, including an earth model. It is used for GPS systems.

The new CAP plane has a nice GPS but no freaking ADF or DME WTF?

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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.

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sub rosa

Translated from Latin, this means "under the rose" and is a term frequently used for surveillance but can also mean any type of undercover or discrete investigation. We provide sub rosa/surveillance services both to private parties and to commercial firms.

see pirate radio for where i used this word.

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takes the awards

when something is so cool it is worthy of getting the 'awards' whatever that may be

that's definitly taking the awards today

squelch tail

A burst of noise (a.k.a. "static") heard after a FM radio transmission ends. The random static sound is actually the radio trying to decipher the ambient background noise into meaningful audio. Usually this noise is hidden from the listener with the squelch function on the radio. In typical squelch systems, the audio circuit is turned off if the radio isn't receiving a signal of a certain minimum signal strength. The squelch tail occurs when the transmission has just ended and the radio circuitry doesn't respond quite fast enough. This is remedied by systems like STE or Squelch Tail Elimination by Motorola which send a brief subaudible tone right before the end of the transmission so that the audio circuit turns off before the modulated signal ends. Creative use of CTCSS like turning off the tone generation circuit on a repeater before the repeater tail will work for radios using tone squelch on both transmit and receive.

My VX-150 has a very long squelch tail.

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