Abbreviation Meanings For nOOBs.

[EYEMLOST]

I searched and couldn't find a thread on abbreviations used here.

For example:
FWC: Four Wheel Camper.
PNW: Pacific North West.
ATC: All Terrain Campers


While reading a thread, someone used terms, "NS sleeping" and "sleeping EW".



What other abbreviations are used so I can better understand what's being said here (website)?

 

[ski3pin]

NS (north south) is sleeping aligned with the camper feet or head toward the door.

EW (east west) is sleeping crosswise in the camper.

Thanks for posting for clarification. I get lost on abbreviations often and need to search out meanings.

 

[Wandering Sagebrush]

TLAs and FLAs are hard to keep up with…


TLA -> Three Letter Acronyms
FLA -> Four Letter Acronyms

Seriously, in many instances, they are obscure. Your idea for a list is a good one.

 

[craig333]

Doesn't help when they mean multiple things. When I see BLM I think bureau of land management while others will think black lives matter (or even other meanings). Hams are particularly bad about acronyms

 

[billharr]

TMI

Old people = Three Mile Island.

Young people = Too Much Information.

 

[pvstoy]

Hams are particularly bad about acronyms

Radio operators was not the first thing to come to my mind....

 

[OutToLunch]

WTF Welcome To Flagstaff (local bumper sticker)

 

[ntsqd]

Abolish all TLA's.

boy did I get a dirty look from my boss when I said that!

FLA can also be a Flooded Lead-Acid battery.
AGM - Absorbed Glass Mat battery

VSR - Voltage Sensing Relay
ACR - Automatic Charge Relay
Different Mfg names for essentially the same function.

 

[Foy]

NF- National Forest

NP- National Park

NM- National Monument

FWS- US Fish and Wildlife Service

NRA- National Recreation Area, often a designated subunit within a NF.

NWR- National Wildlife Refuge

NS- National Seashore

And for Wanderers back East---

BRP- Blue Ridge Parkway

VCT- Virginia Creeper Trail

GSMNP- Great Smoky Mountains NP

SNP- Shenandoah NP

AT- Appalachian Trail (pronounced appa-LATCH-chun)

OBX- Outer Banks

IBX- Inner Banks

CHNS- Cape Hatteras NS

CLNS- Cape Lookout NS

ANS- Assateague NS

ES- Eastern Shore (lower portion of the Delmarva Peninsula, location of the ANS).

COE- US Army Corps of Engineers (operators of many hydroelectric and flood control dams and canal systems)

 

[craig333]

Radio operators was not the first thing to come to my mind....

What did?