[Boatanchors] [Glowbugs] RE: Distress "Q" signal like, CQD SOS MAYDAY etc

[Glen Zook]

Then there is QBE which means "I am reeling in my antenna".  This "Q" signal was used by aviation radio operators and was used when the trailing wire antenna, on the aircraft, was reeled in before landing.  Basically, it meant that there would be no more transmissions from the aircraft.


The late Dave Osborn, K9BPV (exW2ZSK) always used this signal instead of QRT.  Dave had been an operator aboard U.S. Navy aircraft.  When someone, that he had never "worked" before, asked him what QBE meant, he would inform them of the meaning.  Dave was the person who administered my Novice Class examinations on 13 February 1959, my 15th birthday.

 Glen, K9STH 
Website: http://k9sth.net

      From: Maynard Wright <m-wright at eskimo.com>
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 Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2017 9:54 AM
 Subject: Re: [Glowbugs] RE: Distress "Q" signal like, CQD SOS MAYDAY etc
   
I suspect that the same thing is true of many of the Q signals that aren't 
used much, if at all.  Some of them are used frequently on traffic nets, but 
not during other QSOs.  How about QRA or QRJ?  If someone sent me one of 
those, or any one of a number of others,  I'd have to look it up.