[QCWA] Q-Signals

[n1cc at qcwa-hq.com]

This may help one and all.  For those of us with a professional
communications background the following link explains the official "Q" code,
The Amateur "Q" code and the "informal Amateur Q Code".  

http://www.giangrandi.ch/electronics/radio/qcode/qcodefull.html 

Fellow ex-military ops know the "Z" signals trump the "Q" signals on
official circuits.  A partial guide is found at this link

http://www.milspec.ca/radcodes/zcodes.html 

Even today the ACP-131 guide is the authority for use of Q and Z signals.
OK on CW and RTTY not on voice - ever!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACP-131 


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-----Original Message-----
From: qcwa-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:qcwa-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
Behalf Of Jeffrey D Angus
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 2:07 PM
To: qcwa at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [QCWA] Q-Signals

On 3/19/2012 12:23 PM, n5ge at n5ge.com wrote:
> They left one of the most important ones out:
>
> QLF: Send with your left foot for a while.
Another "oldie" was QBS. While technically it means; Ascend (or descend) to
... height above ....

But was typically used as "Wipe the Bird Sh*t off your antenna" within the
amateur community.

Jeff-1.0
wa6fwi

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