a license to operate airband equipment is required and the operator is tested on competency in procedures ... The airband uses the frequencies between 108 Hertz MHz and 137 MHz. The lower part of the band ... for voice communication on the airband was originally 100 kHz , this bandwidth was subsequently split ... use It is illegal to broadcast on the Airband frequencies without a suitable license. Many countries regulations also restrict communications in the airband. For instance in Canada airband communications ... to voice transmissions in the airband frequencies, it may be an offence to possess such equipment in certain ... between governments when tourists bring airband equipment into countries which ban the possession ... more details
VHF radio refers to several communications services in the VHF frequency range, including Airband aircraft radio Amateur radio in the 6, 2 and 1 1 4 meter bands FM radio broadcasts Marine VHF radio disambig ... more details
Air band may refer to Airband , the band of frequencies used for radio communication in aviation Air French band , a French electronic music duo Air Japanese band , a Japanese band Air jazz group , a jazz trio founded in 1971 Air 1970s band , 1970s American rock band disambig ... more details
Infobox airport name Grand Manan Airport IATA ICAO TC CCN2 type Public owner operator Grand Manan Airport Commission city served location Grand Manan, New Brunswick elevation f 238 elevation m 73 latd 44 latm 42 lats 48 latNS N longd 066 longm 47 longs 47 longEW W coordinates type airport coordinates region CA NB pushpin map Canada New Brunswick pushpin label CCN2 pushpin map caption Location in New Brunswick website r1 number 06 24 r1 length f 3,000 r1 length m 914 r1 surface Asphalt footnotes Source Canada Flight Supplement ref name CFS CFS ref Grand Manan Airport Airport codes CCN2 , is located convert 2 NM abbr on lk in on Grand Manan Island New Brunswick Grand Manan Island , New Brunswick , Canada . The airport is classified as an airport of entry by NAV CANADA and is staffed by the Canada Border Services Agency . CBSA officers at this airport currently can handle general aviation aircraft only, with no more than 15 passengers. ref name CFS Lighting for night landings is activated through VHF airband radio at 123.20 MHz. ref cite web url http www.uscg.mil d1 response jrt documents community 20resource 20guides Grand 20Manan.pdf title Grand Manan Community Resource Plan Community Emergency Response Resource Guidebook date August 2002 publisher United States Coast Guard format pdf accessdate 6 July 2010 ref References reflist List of airports in Canada Category Airports in New Brunswick Category Transportation in Charlotte County, New Brunswick Category Buildings and structures in Charlotte County, New Brunswick NewBrunswick airport stub pms Grand Manan Airport ... more details
Infobox Company company name M C Partners company logo Image MC Partners logo.jpg 200px M C Partners logo predecessor TA Associates TA Associates Media Communications Group company type Private Company Private foundation 1986 founders David Croll, Jim Wade location Boston, Massachusetts , United States industry Private equity products venture capital , private equity assets 2.0 billion homepage http www.mcpartners.com www.mcpartners.com num employees 20 M C Partners is a private equity firm focused on venture capital investments in emerging companies in the mass media media and telecommunications communications industries. M C invests in early, mid, and late stage companies as well as turnarounds and leveraged buyout buyouts in its sectors of focus. The firm was formerly known as Media Communications Partners . The firm, which is based in Boston, Massachusetts , was founded in 1986 as a spinout from pioneering venture capital firm, TA Associates . M C has offices in San Francisco and London . The firm has raised approximately 2.0 billion since inception across six funds. Investments The firm invests in emerging communications related information technology companies in the US and internationally. M C is currently investing out of its sixth fund, Media Communications Partners VI, a 550 million venture fund raised in 2006. Among the firm s most notable investments are such notable companies as AccentHealth ref http findarticles.com p articles mi m0EIN is 2008 Sept 8 ai n28072412 M C Venture Partners and Banc of America Capital Investors Acquire AccentHealth . Sept 8, 2008 ref , Airband ref http www.masshightech.com stories 2009 02 16 daily15 MC Venture helps rock Airbands 3M funding.html M C Venture helps rock Airband s 3M funding . Journal of New England Technology, February 17, 2009 ref , Cellular One , Fusepoint Managed Services , HyPerformix , ICG Communications ref http boston.bizjournals.com boston stories 2004 07 19 daily3.html M C Venture partners in ICG acqui ... more details
Infobox Airport name Fulton County Airport nativename Charlie Brown Field nativename a nativename r image Charlie Brown Fulton County Airport GA 20100113 0226.JPG image width caption IATA FTY ICAO KFTY type Public owner operator Fulton County city served location Atlanta, Georgia elevation f 841 elevation m 256.3 coordinates website metric elev metric rwy r1 number 8 26 r1 length f 5,796 r1 length m 1,767 r1 surface Asphalt r2 number 14 32 r2 length f 4,157 r2 length m 1,267 r2 surface Asphalt r3 number 9 27 r3 length f 2,801 r3 length m 854 r3 surface Asphalt stat year stat1 header stat1 data stat2 header stat2 data footnotes For other airports with this name Fulton County Airport disambiguation Fulton County Airport at Charlie Brown Field Airport codes FTY KFTY is a local Class D airport located just west of Atlanta , and run by Fulton County, Georgia Fulton County of the U.S. state of Georgia U.S. state Georgia . It is the nearest airport to Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport which is just south of Atlanta , and handles much of the general aviation air traffic traffic that would otherwise go there. The airport exists below and in close proximity to ATL s Class B airspace. It is located very near Interstate 20 Georgia Interstate 20 , Interstate 285 , and the Chattahoochee River , just outside the Atlanta city limits . It reports Automated airport weather station Automated Surface Observing System .28ASOS.29 ASOS weather conditions 24 hours per day as West Atlanta . It also acted as the nearest backup weather station when Dobbins Air Reserve Base did not report overnight. Its name comes not from Charlie Brown , the principal character in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz , but from the nickname for former Atlanta politician Charles M. Brown , who served on the city council and county commission during the 1960s. It is also called Charlie Brown Airport or Brown Field not to be mistaken for the word brownfield . On the airband radio , however ... more details
In telecommunication , the capture effect , or FM capture effect , is a phenomenon associated with Frequency modulation FM reception in which only the stronger of two signals at, or near, the same frequency will be demodulation demodulated . The capture effect is defined as the complete suppression of the weaker signal at the receiver radio receiver limiter if it has one where the weaker signal is not Amplifier amplified , but attenuate d. When both signals are nearly equal in strength, or are fading independently, the receiver may switch from one to the other and exhibit picket fencing . The capture effect can occur at the signal limiter, or in the demodulation stage, for circuits that do not require a signal limiter. Citation needed date January 2010 Some types of Detector radio radio receiver circuits have a stronger capture effect than others. The measurement of how well a receiver can reject a second signal on the same frequency is called the capture ratio for a specific receiver. It is measured as the lowest ratio of the power of two signals that will result in the suppression of the smaller signal. Amplitude modulation, or AM broadcasting AM radio , Transmission telecommunications transmission is not subject to this effect. This is one reason that the Airband aviation industry, and others, have chosen to use AM for communications rather than FM, allowing multiple signals to be broadcasting broadcast on the same channel. Similar phenomena to the capture effect are described in AM when offset carriers of different strengths are present in the passband of a receiver. For example, the aviation glideslope vertical guidance clearance beam is sometimes described as a capture effect system, even though it operates using AM signals. Citation needed date January 2010 Amplitude modulation immunity to capture effect In FM demodulation the receiver tracks the modulated frequency shift of the desired carrier while discriminating against any other signal since it can only f ... more details
Notability Music date November 2011 for the town in France Maulers, Oise The Maulers are a fictional rock & roll band created in the early 1980s by several friends in Quincy, IL . The characters are Peter Thruster, lead vocals, brothers Eddie & Alex Vas Deferenz, lead guitars vocals, Bitch Pastey, rhythm guitar vocals, Slats Magnum, bass vocals & Jim Smith, drums. The bands manager is Col. Deryk St. Derrick who holds a 50 year, unbreakable contract in which he agrees to manage the band and have complete control of their lives for 80 of their profits. The purpose of creating the band was to enter an Air Band Contest at a local college. The band won the contest & was invited back for several subsequent visits until it was discovered that only one member of six was actually taking classes, and he was only taking a half credit class. The Maulers were told they could not continue competing since they consistently won, but, would be allowed to perform as an exhibition act. Over the next few years, the Maulers performed in other local airband contests, dazzling audiences with their ability to look like a real rock band, complete with elaborate pyrotechnics & a motorcycle or scooter driven onstage during the song, Bad Motor Scooter by Montrose. With the end of the 80 s, came the decline of the Maulers until in 1997, a friend suggested a party in his backyard with real bands & having the Maulers as a headline act. The gathering would be named Maulerpalooza & on November 1, 1997, the Maulers performed once again with the storyline that their citizenship had been revoked due to an affair between lead singer Thruster & the wife of the head of corporate telecommunications giant, MCI. They had been playing in southeast Asian brothels for the last 10 years & were now sneaking back into the country to perform for a few of their loyal fans before their infamous 1980 1999 World Carnage Tour ended. The performance was a success & the band played once again in the summer of 1998 at a d ... more details
class and extracurricular activity. AirbandAirband is a class competition where the different classes are given eight minutes to dance and lip sync to pre recorded songs. Airband is one ... more details
Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier than air aircraft . Articles related to aviation include AlphanumericTOC align center nobreak numbers references externallinks top A Accidents and incidents in aviation Non directional beacon ADF Adverse yaw Adverse Yaw Aerobatics Aerodrome Aerodrome Mapping Database AMDB Aerodynamics Aeronautical Information Manual AIM Aeronautical chart Aeronautics Aerospace Aerospace engineering Aileron Air Charter Air Defense Identification Zone ADIZ Air Freight Terminal Air Traffic Flow Management Airband Aircraft Maintenance Engineer AME Aircraft Maintenance Technician AMT Aircraft Registration Aircraft Aircraft engine controls Aircraft lavatory Aircraft noise Airfoil Airline Transport Pilot License Airline Airliner Air navigation Airport Facility Directory A FD Airport Air safety Airship Airshow Airspace classes Airspeed Airspeed indicator Air traffic control Air traffic controllers strike of 1981 Altimeter Altitude Angel Flight Angle of attack Angle of incidence Anhedral Helicopter flight controls Anti torque pedals Helicopter rudder pedals Artificial horizon Aspect ratio wing Assisted take off Attitude indicator Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast Automatic Terminal Information Service ATIS Autorotation helicopter Autorotation fixed wing aircraft Autopilot Aviation Aviation Archaeology Aviation History Aviation Medical Examiner AME Aviation Safety Aviation System Aviator Avionics B Balloon aircraft Bird strike Blast pad Non rigid airship Blimp Bypass ratio C Canard aeronautics Canard Center of gravity aircraft Chord aircraft Circuit airfield Civil Air Patrol US Air Force Auxiliary Civil Aviation Authority CAA Cockpit Cockpit voice recorder Coefficient of lift Common Use Self Service CUSS Helicopter flight controls Collective Commercial Pilot License Compass Compressor stall Controlled airspace CTAF Controlled Visual Flight Rules CVFR Crab landing Helicopter flight cont ... more details
Multiple issues notability February 2010 one source February 2010 BLP sources February 2010 Infobox person name Shawn Lathrop caption Shawn Lathrop 2007 image Shawn Lathrop B&W shot.JPG birth name Shawn Lathrop birth date Birth date and age 1973 7 8 birth place Sunnyvale, California death date death place other names religion occupation actor years active spouse Faith Lathrop website Shawn Lathrop born July 8, 1973 in Sunnyvale, California is a professional actor living in Hawaii. Early life and career His first theater experience was in the large scale production of the nativity for the Medford, Oregon First Nazarene Church at age 7. The acting bug bit him and he appeared in every school performance he could. He competed twice in school talent contests playing airband with friends in fifth and sixth grade. Nobody could play an airguitar like I could, man he was quoted saying. In high school his attention was more focused on working, dating and being a class clown. Pressure from friends kept him from auditioning for plays as it was seen as uncool by his peers. In his senior year, he and a friend approached the teacher in charge of the theater program and convinced him to allow them to build sets and perform technical work on productions to satisfy their need for an elective credit to graduate. Shawn and his friend Jack Mills built sets and props for several plays that year and worked the stage lights for several productions. In college, Shawn was able to return to his love of performing when he landed the role of the Sherriff in the play The Crucible for Hawaii Pacific University directed by Joyce Maltby. Unfortunately, illness and slipping grades forced him to drop out only a week before opening night leaving his understudy to take over the role. He focused on honing his craft for the next 4 years by taking workshops by Hawaii based casting director Margaret Doversola who would become a dear friend of his over the span of ten years. Shawn also took acting classes f ... more details
is Airband, a dance and lip sync competition consisting of teams of students. While any student may participate, by tradition Airband contestants are almost exclusively Seniors. Airband is almost ... more details
Refimprove date December 2007 Image B 29 silverplate.gif thumb right Boeing B 29 Superfortress showing conventional single vertical stabilizer TOCright The vertical stabilizers , vertical stabilisers , or fins , of aircraft , missile s or bomb s are typically found on the aft end of the fuselage or body, and are intended to reduce aerodynamic side slip and provide direction stability. It is analogical to a skeg on boats and ships. On aircraft, vertical stabilizers generally point upwards. These are also known as the vertical tail, and are part of an aircraft s empennage . The trailing end of the stabilizer is typically movable, and called the rudder this allows the aircraft pilot to control Aircraft principal axes Vertical axis .28yaw.29 yaw . Often radio navigation navigational radio or airband transceiver antenna radio antennas are placed on or inside the vertical tail. In most Trijet aircraft with three jet engines , the vertical stabilizer houses the central engine or engine inlet duct. Vertical stabilizers, or fins have also been used in automobile s, specifically in top level motor sports, with the concept making a resurgence in both Formula 1 and Le Mans Prototype racing. A few aircraft models have a ventral fin under the rear end. Normally this is small, or can fold sideways, to allow landing. The North American X 15 had 4 equal fins round its tail end like a missile s. Also see Dornier Do 335 . Types of vertical stabilizers Single Conventional tail File singapore a380 800 9v skd takeoff heathrow 2010 arp.jpg thumb The conventional tail of an Airbus A380 , with the vertical stabiliser exactly vertical File Airbus A319 et A320 Iberia Align s A roport de Madrid Barajas .jpg thumb right Tails of Iberia airline Iberia aircraft at Madrid Barajas Airport . The vertical stabilizer is mounted exactly vertically, and the Stabilizer aircraft horizontal stabilizer is directly mounted to the empennage the rear fuselage . This is the most common vertical stabilizer confi ... more details
this is a placeholder for an image that is to be uploaded shortly Image PortisheadRadiotelexTerminals.jpg thumb right Banks of telex terminals in C Wing at Portishead Radio Portishead Radio callsign GKA was a radio station in England that provided worldwide Category Maritime communication maritime communication s and long range airband aeronautical communication s from 1928 until 2000. It was the world s largest and busiest radiotelephony station. ref name johnson cite journal author Johnson, B title English in maritime radiotelephony journal World Englishes volume 13 issue 1 pages 83 91 doi 10.1111 j.1467 971X.1994.tb00285.x year 1994 ref In 1974, there were 154 radio operators who handled over 20 million words per year. ref name jproc cite web title The story of Portishead Radio Long range maritime radio communications 1920 1995 date 2001 04 06 url http jproc.ca radiostor portis1.html accessdate 2008 01 09 ref 1920 1939 The station s control centre, which was based at Highbridge, Somerset Highbridge , near Burnham on Sea , opened in July 1928. It was constructed by Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company and operated by the General Post Office United Kingdom General Post Office GPO . Following the privatisation of the post office in 1981, the station was operated by British Telecommunications British Telecommunications PLC now known as BT Group PLC . The main transmitting station, which was remotely operated, originally consisted of a large array of radio masts at nearby Portishead, Somerset Portishead Down s it was replaced by a single radio mast at Clevedon . ref name pguk cite web title The History Of The Portishead area. Portishead Past A Brief History publisher Portishead and North Weston Portishead and North Weston Town Council year 2005 url http www.portishead.gov.uk about portishead fullhistory.htm accessdate 2008 01 09 ref It was used until 1972. Various other remotely operated transmitting stations, including Devizes , Rugby transmitting station Rugby , Leafi ... more details
32491 work Telecom Industry Awards publisher PR Leap accessdate 17 April 2006 ref Airband, ref cite web last Katsulos first Tony title Telarus Adds Airband to Carrier Portfolio url http www.airband.com press releases telarus adds airband to carrier portfolio work Press Release Archive publisher Airband ... more details
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