HF
The acronym ALE.
What is Automatic Link Establishment?
The four modes of operation featured on the AN/PRC-150.
What are FIX, HOP, ALE, 3G?
Supplied one per manpack, this collapsible whip antenna kit works 1.5–60 MHz at 20 watts for ground wave comms.
What is the OE-505?
This key encrypts operational voice and data on a secure net.
What is the TEK (Traffic Encryption Key)?
This is what SINCGARS stands for.
What is Single Channel Ground and Airborne System?
This 2023 blockbuster paired up with Oppenheimer for a double-feature phenomenon.
What is Barbie ("Barbenheimer")?
These are the two principal paths by which radio waves travel from a transmitter to a receiver.
What are ground wave and sky wave?
When you program a FIX preset and enter the RX frequency, this frequency automatically matches it.
What is the TX frequency?
This component of a HF radio is automatically tuned the first time you key the mic.
What is the internal coupler?
Split from its device, it's deliberately useless.
What is the CIK (Cryptographic Ignition Key)?
This is the frequency range for VHF.
What is 30-300 (224.999) MHz?
This is the only U.S. state that borders exactly one other state.
What is Maine?
These four ionospheric layers are the ones used for HF communications.
What are D, E, F1, and F2?
For modulation, you pick USB for this band and FM for this one.
What are HF and VHF?
CT, PT, and CC are the three options shown in this display field.
What is the Keypad Display Unit (KDU) screen?
AN/PYQ-10.
What is a SKL (Simple Key Loader)?
On the antenna kit, this color pair tells you which components are lower versus upper.
What are blue and red?
This is the smallest country in the world.
What is Vatican City?
The acronym BLOS.
What is Beyond Line-of-Sight?
In the Built-In-Test menu, choosing this option tests the entire radio at once.
What is SYSTEM?
To start building a new FIX preset, you press this key then go to SYSTEM PRESETS.
What is [8/PGM]?
Where the COMSEC Custodian sits.
What is brigade?
It connects the transmission line to the antenna elements and transfers RF energy — but being passive, it neither generates nor amplifies signal.
What is the feed cone?
This is the real first name of the hero Star-Lord, leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
What is Peter (Quill)?
This acronym names the technique of bouncing HF signals nearly straight up to reach close-in stations behind terrain.
What is Near Vertical Incidence Skywave (NVIS)?
In HF-SSB modes, these are the three operator-selectable transmit power levels in watts.
What are 1, 5, or 20 watts?
On the radio's front panel, this is the connector labeled J1.
What is the audio connector?
The five lifecycle stages, in order.
What are Generate, Distribute, Store, Use, Destroy?
Keeping transmissions short, thinking before keying, and relocating after long transmissions all guard against this threat.
What is EW (electronic warfare)?
This is the main equipment Ghostbuster's used to zap ghosts.
What is a proton pack?