In the USA, the November Sweepstakes, June and September VHF QSO Parties, January VHF Sweepstakes, and the ARRL International DX Contest, as well as many major international contests have designated special QRP categories.

In telecommunication, a maritime broadcast communications net is a communications net that is used for international distress calling, including international lifeboat, lifecraft, and survival-craft high frequency ( HF ); aeronautical emergency very high frequency ( VHF ); survival ultra high frequency ( UHF ); international calling and safety very high frequency ( VHF ); combined scene-of-search-and-rescue ; and other similar and related purposes.

A marine VHF set is a combined transmitter and receiver and only operates on standard, international frequencies known as channels.

An international agreement provides for a unified television bandplan, with 6-MHz channels throughout ITU Region II for both VHF and UHF bands, except for French territories, Falkland Islands, Greenland and Netherlands Antilles.

The terms radio scanner or police scanner generally refer to a communications receiver that is primarily intended for monitoring VHF and UHF landmobile radio systems, as opposed to, say, a receiver used to monitor international shortwave transmissions.

* Radio MSTelcom provides a national and international voice and data radio communications system, a maritime VHF network, an aeronautical VHF network, a community ground UHF radio repeater network, and a radio trunking system.

Rekken is also known in international aviation, by the VHF omnidirectional range called ' Rekken ' ( RKN ).

Austrian German is the only variety of a pluricentric language recognized under international law / EU primary law.

German and international students are educated in more than 20 international or foreign-oriented programs and can acquire German as well as international degrees ( Bachelor / Master ) or Doppeldiplome ( double degrees ).

There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.

An international standard for this process, ISO 16622 Meteorology — Sonic anemometers / thermometers — Acceptance test methods for mean wind measurements is in general circulation.

The sector is beginning to improve following installation of a 22 Mbit / s fiber optic international link, a vast improvement over the previous 128 kbit / s link.

The sequencing of the rice ( Oryza sativa ) genome, its relatively small genome, and a large international research community have made rice an important cereal / grass / monocot model.

The Standards council of Canada then sponsored, on January 21, 1993, the registration of an encoded character set for use in ISO / IEC 2022, in the ISO-IR international registry of coded character sets.

# Measures, numbers, money, days, months, years, clock time, and international words are in English forms, e. g. Date / Time: 20 May 1972 at 21: 00

For a work to be considered pirated, its illegitimate use must have occurred in a nation that has domestic copyright laws and / or adheres to a bilateral treaty or established international convention such as the Berne Convention or WIPO Copyright Treaty.

The tunnel carries high-speed Eurostar passenger trains, Eurotunnel Shuttle roll-on / roll-off vehicle transport — the largest in the world — and international rail freight trains.

Peirce has gained a significant international following, marked by university research centers devoted to Peirce studies and pragmatism in Brazil ( CeneP / CIEP ), Finland (

The international association of Conservative / Masorti Rabbis is known as the Rabbinical Assembly ; the Cantors Assembly is the organization of chazanim.

There are also a number of VSAT stations in major cities such as Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazari Sharif, and Jalalabad, providing international and domestic voice / data connectivity.

USASF / IASF Worlds: Many United States cheerleading organizations form and register the not-for-profit entity the United States All Star Federation ( USASF ) and also the International All Star Federation ( IASF ) to support international club cheerleading and the World Cheerleading Club Championships.

Under IAAF ( international ) rules, Youth boys ( 16 – 17 years ) throw the 1. 5 kg discus, the Junior men ( 18 – 19 years ) throw the unique 1. 75 kg discus, and the girls / women of those ages throw the 1 kg discus.

A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one state or an international inter-governmental organisation ( such as the United Nations ) present in another state to represent the sending state / organisation in the receiving state.

Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy-to-learn and politically neutral language that transcends nationality and would foster peace and international understanding between people with different regional and / or national languages.

Approval of Ethernet on the international level was achieved by a similar, cross-partisan action with Fromm as liaison officer working to integrate International Electrotechnical Commission, TC83 and International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) TC97SC6, and the ISO / IEEE 802 / 3 standard was approved in 1984.

* 1933 / 34: Reorganisation of the international ( neutral ) Esperanto movement, under the name UEA.

: Modern local, interisland, and international ( wire / radio integrated ) public and special-purpose telephone, telegraph, and teleprinter facilities ; regional radio communications center

international: satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( with total of 5 antennas-2 for Indian Ocean and 3 for Atlantic Ocean ), NA Eutelsat, 1 Inmarsat ( Atlantic Ocean region ); HF radiotelephone communications with more than 20 countries

* international: HF radiotelephone communication facility ; access to international communications carriers provided via Hong Kong and Mainland China ; satellite earth station-1 Intelsat ( Indian Ocean )

There is some international interconnectivity, with microwave radio relay and HF radiotelephone communications to Comoros as of 2001.

adequate local and international radiotelephone communications provided via Australian facilities

general assessment: services are adequate ; facilities provide radiotelephone and telegraph, coastal radio, aeronautical radio, and international radio communication services

The international system employs a radiotelephone system, with connections to Comoros, France and Madagascar.

The recovery party noted that the radio was discovered tuned to 2182 kHz, the international marine radiotelephone distress channel.

The international system consists of two Intelsat satellites in geostationary orbit orbit, international radiotelephone communications and landline services to neighboring countries.

The international economy of 1960 is markedly different from that of the early postwar years.

'' At other points in his narrative, Krim associates Jewishness with unappeasable literary ambition, with abstraction, with his personal turning aside from the good, the true, and the beautiful of fiction in the manner of James T. Farrell to the international, the false, and the inflated.

His words were the more ungracious to come from a man who lent his name to the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships dedicated to the same goal of international understanding.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

But he takes his bearings from the great guidelines of policy, well-established precedents, the commitments of the United States under international charters and treaties, basic statutes, and well-understood notions of the American people about how we are to conduct ourselves, in policy literature such as country papers and National Security Council papers accumulated in the Department.

We should hope that peace corps projects will be truly international and that our citizens will find themselves working alongside citizens of the host country and also volunteers from other lands.

The international unit ( u. ), adopted to make possible the comparison of results from different laboratories ( Mussett and Perry, 1955 ), has been defined as the amount of activity present in 13.5 mg of the International Standard Preparation.

Professor McNeill thinks that at Yalta, Stalin did not fully realize the dilemma which faced him, that he thought the exclusion of the anti-Soviet voters from East European elections would not be greatly resented by his allies, while neither Roosevelt nor Churchill frankly faced `` the fact that, in Poland at least, genuinely free democratic elections would return governments unfriendly to Russia '', by any definition of international friendliness.

In the century from 1815 to 1914 the law of nations became international law.

In the first place the new doctrine brought a formal separation of international from municipal law, rejecting the earlier view that both were parts of a universal legal system.

Private international law ( which Americans call the `` conflict of laws '' ) was thus segregated from international law proper, or, as it is often called, public international law.

They may even dismiss it from their minds as something that concerns only the `` ecclesiastical Rover Boys '', as someone has dubbed them, who like to go to national and international assemblies, and have expense accounts that permit them to do so.

The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

It won't be a `` tea '', however, but more of an international folk song festival, with singers from Chicago's foreign groups to sing Christmas songs from around the world.

He said Britain also proposed that the international truce commission should be reconvened, sent to New Delhi and from there to Laos to verify the cease-fire.

In addition, Lincoln had to contend with reinforcing strong Union sympathies in the border slave states and keeping the war from becoming an international conflict.

International Atomic Time ( TAI, from the French name Temps atomique international ) is a high-precision atomic coordinate time standard based on the notional passage of proper time on Earth's geoid.

To transform themselves from outlaws into a legitimate nation, the colonists needed international recognition for their cause and foreign allies to support it.

Angola and Vietnam have steadfast partners as both transitioned from Cold War-era foreign policies of international communism to pro-Western pragmatism following the fall of the Soviet Union.