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rice box en · NOUN
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(slang) A cheap Asian-made electronic device.
Rice box, rice box, every where? Where will this mess all end? The FMer realizes the increasing sophistication of the hobby.
1975, 73 Amateur Radio's Technical Journal, numbers 172-177, page 110:A morning at my local hamfest got me a low-band transceiver (everybody called it a "rice box") for what seemed to me a very reasonable price. The antenna, however, was a more difficult problem.
2002, 73 Amateur Radio Today, numbers 494-505:
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