[Boatanchors] What is "QRA"?

Ray V. [email protected], [email protected]
Sat, 01 Nov 2003 14:06:02 -0500 

The technical definition is that QRA means "what is the name of your 
station (callsign)" or "the name of my station (callsign) is".

It also seems to be some form of award seeker group, he's probably in 
some form of contest, check out this web page:

"http://www.uksmg.org/qra.htm"

73, Ray  W2EC

Carlos Avellanet [kf4rrn] wrote:

 > Isn't QRA-- what's your name?  That's what I've always thought it meant.
 >
 > Carlos. KF4RRN
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 >>Right now there is a station sending CQ "QRA".  I thought I know the most
 >>common "Q" codes but this one is new to me and it's not listed in my '93
 >>handbook.
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