ALE

Automatic Link Establishment (station)

In high-frequency (HF) radio, the capability of a station to make contact, or initiate a circuit, between itself and another specified radio station, without human intervention and usually under emergency conditions. ALE stations are generally computer-controlled.

The Air Force has ALE frequencies in the 11 and 19 MHz bands.

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SSB

AM radio transmission in which only one sideband is transmitted.

SSB is a highly efficent modulation mode and is widely used for HF communications.

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United States Postal Service

The Mafia in little white trucks.

and everyone thinks im crazy..

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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.

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Transmitter

noun.
1) a device used to send out information (see radio) usally an AM or FM broadcast transmitter, a waste of power, some AM stations use 40,000,000 watts, and your radio picks up like 0.0001 watts, pretty neat system, altough most radio systems consist of two or more transceivers that can send and recive radio waves without the need for a T/X switch.

"The WTOP-AM 1500 transmitter is jamming my TV"

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holding pattern

The term applied to the dogfight in progress over any radio facility serving a terminal airport.

ATC: Cessna 78 Romeo, enter holding pattern

Me: Oh crap

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WVHF

Pirate Radio forever man!

I transmit pirate radio on the 26.695 to 27.965 MHz band as well as the 69xx kHz pirate band.

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