[CW] [MorseCode] Refuting Wikipedia Misinformation about CQ

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

>From Recommendation ITU-R M.1172 1  ITU-R M.1172F*
MISCELLANEOUS ABBREVIATIONS AND SIGNALS TO BE USED FOR RADIOCOMMUNICATIONS
IN THE MARITIME MOBILE SERVICE (1995)

CP General call to two or more specified stations (see Recommendation ITU-R
M.1170).

CQ General call to all stations.

File attached.

It's an excellent document to have around as it has the Q code from QOA to
QUZ.

It also has RQ Request, BQ Bequest, and the only abbreviation I have never
heard used:

YZ The words which follow are in plain language.

I wonder if that was used like this:

QSD YZ STOP SENDING WITH YOUR ARSE

Notice the official ITU procedure for using Q codes on radiotelephone. When
a question is desired the Q code is vocalized:

QRZ RQ or even QUEBEC ROMEO ZULU ROMEO QUEBEC.

That might clear up the contest interference on SSB on the amateur bands.

73



On Fri, Sep 8, 2023, 3:34 PM Bill Burns <billb at ftldesign.com> wrote:

>
> I agree with David, and the first paragraph of the "History and usage"
> section of the CQ Wikipedia article that he quotes below,
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ_(call)
> needs a complete rewrite, which I will attack when I have some time.
>
> The cite for CQ's French origin in that section is to a personal "Ocean
> Liners" website page on Titanic, which is apparently the source of the
> postal French nonsense: http://www.oceanliner.org/titanic_radio.htm
> That page has no reference for the bogus information it provides, which
> was then copied to Wikipedia.
>
> Another source linked on Wikipedia is a book on Titanic, which also has
> almost identical wording to the Ocean Liners page:
> https://books.google.com/books?id=LmjHM5HtEHAC&pg=PT94
>
> I suspect that many of those writing about the Titanic just plagiarize
> what has gone before!
>
> It's true that the official language of the Universal Postal Union was
> French after it was established in 1874 by a meeting in Paris, but
> international agreements on how to handle the mail have absolutely nothing
> to do with landline or cable telegraphy, nor with radio communications.
>
> The current standard for "Miscellaneous abbreviations and signals to be
> used for radiocommunications in the maritime mobile service," published by
> the ITU in 1995, confirms that CQ is (and always has been) "General call to
> all stations."
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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