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  2. Q code - Wikipedia

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    In amateur radio, the Q-codes were originally used in Morse code transmissions to shorten lengthy phrases and were followed by a Morse code question mark ( ) if the phrase was a question. Q-codes are commonly used in voice communications as shorthand nouns, verbs, and adjectives making up phrases.

  3. QSA and QRK radio signal reports - Wikipedia

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    The book goes on to note that "Some of the definitions, however, appear to confuse audibility or signal strength with readability, which may be impaired even when signals are strong, by atmospherics, interference, a noisy receiver, etc.", and that because of this Amateurs supplemented the QSA system reports with a readability scale, called the ...

  4. Maidenhead Locator System - Wikipedia

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    The Maidenhead Locator System (a.k.a. QTH Locator and IARU Locator) is a geocode system used by amateur radio operators to succinctly describe their geographic coordinates, which replaced the deprecated QRA locator, which was limited to European contacts. [1]

  5. Morse code abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    Morse code abbreviations are not the same as prosigns.Morse abbreviations are composed of (normal) textual alpha-numeric character symbols with normal Morse code inter-character spacing; the character symbols in abbreviations, unlike the delineated character groups representing Morse code prosigns, are not "run together" or concatenated in the way most prosigns are formed.

  6. Cancer screening - Wikipedia

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    The objective of cancer screening is to detect cancer before symptoms appear, involving various methods such as blood tests, urine tests, DNA tests, and medical imaging. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The purpose of screening is early cancer detection, to make the cancer easier to treat and extending life expectancy. [ 3 ]

  7. Prosigns for Morse code - Wikipedia

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    Even though represented as strings of letters, prosigns are rendered without the intercharacter commas or pauses that would occur between the letters shown, if the representation were (mistakenly) sent as a sequence of letters: In printed material describing their meaning and use, prosigns are shown either as a sequence of dots and dashes for the sound of a telegraph, or by an overlined ...

  8. QRA locator - Wikipedia

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    The QRA locator, also called QTH locator in some publications, is an obsolete geographic coordinate system used by amateur radio operators in Europe before the introduction of the Maidenhead Locator System. As a radio transmitter or receiver location system the QRA locator is considered defunct, but may be found in many older documents.

  9. Amateur radio - Wikipedia

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    An amateur radio license is valid only in the country where it is issued or in another country that has a reciprocal licensing agreement with the issuing country. [42] [43] In some countries, an amateur radio license is necessary in order to purchase or possess amateur radio equipment. [44]