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By the 1970s, the Post Office Handbook for Radio Operators listed over a hundred Q-codes, [4] covering a wide range of subjects including radio procedures, meteorology, radio direction finding, and search and rescue. Some Q-codes are also used in aviation, in particular QNE, QNH and QFE, referring to certain altimeter settings.
The QSA code and QRK code are interrelated and complementary signal reporting codes for use in wireless telegraphy . They replaced the earlier QSJ code. They replaced the earlier QSJ code. Currently, the QSA and QRK codes are officially defined in the ITU Radio Regulations 1990, Appendix 13: Miscellaneous Abbreviations and Signals to Be Used in ...
Operating signals are a type of brevity code used in operational communication among radio and telegraph operators. For example: Prosigns for Morse code; 92 Code: telegraph brevity codes; Q code: initially developed for commercial radiotelegraph communication and adopted by other radio services; QN Signals: published by the ARRL and used in ...
ACP-131 [1] is the controlling publication for the listing of Q codes and Z codes. It is published and revised from time to time by the Combined Communications Electronics Board (CCEB) countries: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States.
Q code, initially developed for commercial radiotelegraph communication, later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio. Used since circa 1909. QN Signals, published by the ARRL and used by Amateur radio operators to assist in the transmission of ARRL Radiograms in the National Traffic System.
Brevity codes, including Ten-codes, and Phillips Code; and operating signals, including 92 code, Q code, and Z code; should be used as a last choice, as these lists of codes are so extensive that it is unlikely that all participants have the full and correct definitions memorized.
The QSK code is one of the earliest signal reporting formats and is a part of the Q code used for commercial radiotelegraph communication, appearing as one of the twelve Q Codes listed in the 1912 International Radiotelegraph Convention Regulations, and was later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio. The QSA code was ...
An amateur radio contact, more commonly referred to as simply a "contact", is an exchange of information between two amateur radio stations. The exchange usually consists of an initial call, a response by another amateur radio operator at an amateur radio station, and a signal report. A contact is often referred to by the Q code QSO. It is ...