Well, I've always thought of sproggies as spurious emissions, i.e. external to the source, whereas I've thought of birdies as internal interference, perhaps like tinitus.
Googling finds the following (typed up, not copied, as the source is a scan) from "A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English", by Eric Partridge: sprog,n .... <other unrelated defs> ... 'According to the Home Office, a graver problem than politcal flak are the "spurious emissions" (known in the trade as "sprogs"), which interfere with emergency services' (New Society article on pirate radio stations, 19 May 1983, p. 252). Perhaps sprogii is the appropriate plural :) Cheers, Darren, G0HWW On 25/06/14 01:27, K8JHR wrote: > > > On 6/24/2014 7:48 PM, Fred Jensen wrote: >> I need to add to my UK <--> US dictionary: >> >> UK=Sproggy US=Spurious emission?? > > > > ________________________________________________ > spoggy > > Sparrow (bird): Spoggies are the most common birds in the residential > areas > of Broken Hill. Compare spagger, sprag, sproggy. > > I suspect he means "birdie" ... i.e., as you guess. > > > More probably from "Down Under" ... more than the UK... > > ==================== K8JHR ===================== > > > > > > ;;\ > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
