Meaning of big switch | Babel Free

Definitions

The switch controlling one's radio equipment.

Examples

“I saw the thin pencil of smoke before I smelt the heated wax. Automatically I hit the big switch. Sitting mute, I watched the faint line of smoke fade into oblivion, and with it went the hopes of this CQ Contest... The Receiver power trannie had packed up.”

“This is the cliché-er who will see you further down the log because he has to pull the big switch and modulate the mattress.”

“I noted in a recent publication that the "sale of spectrum," the stuff we use every time we throw the big switch, was the subject of renewed efforts by President Reagan to charge "users" for access to the radio spectrum […]”

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