[Elecraft] Q codes

[Todd KH2TJ]

It was an unwritten rule, but the use of ZBM2 on any circuit was a big no-no, or at least during my time with Naval Security Group.   Anytime we had trubs with an outlying station, we would gather up the translog and any other copy of the Comms and up the chain of command it would go...I think I only saw a ZBM2 fly by once while I was out on Guam.  It went across one of IO circuits during GW I.  Heard thru the grapevine weeks later that Op was relieved...We were required to maintain a copy  of the ACP-131 on the watch floor.  It made for some interesting reading on slow mid-watches.  I recall we came up with all sorts of Q/Z codes that we Zapped back and forth.  I think we used INT QBF Mate K quite often in place of ZBM2   😉   Always a good laugh to get a Chief of the Watch to ask what the hell was QBF... There were all kinds of Z codes in use too that we would throw out just to mess with the ops on the other end...Great times during  a slow midwatch!   Forget off hand what the Z code was for
"Your totally distorted"!  but after a weeks worth of watchstanding,  I would treat the younger Marines on my watch to total distortion down at the E club on the start of our off time and we'd all get to the "point of no return" (forgot that Z code too!)...


73, Todd KH2TJ


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Good point Andy!  QLF seems to refer to sending ability.  ZBM2 refers to
overall operating ability ... I think ... ACP's 126 and 131 leave a lot
to the reader's imagination.