[QCWA] Q-Signals

[Don Tucker]

My gosh Jeff, "OK on CW and RTTY not on voice - ever!" is awfully final!!!!! 
What do you call your contact confirmation card when operating on SSB, FM or 
AM?

When I was the comm chief in an ANG Eng Bn back in the '50's-60's I was 
taught by the regular USA comm instructors up at Ft Lewis that the use of Z 
(or Q - both were hams) codes in voice communications was an option. They 
emphasized that there were times when such use was appropriate, particularly 
if there was significant interference and the ability to communicate the 
message would be enhanced/improved.

Times change and so do traditions and we need to change too. I use the Q 
codes (well, a few) often, like 'Yes I will send you a QSL card" vs " Yes I 
will send you a postcard confirming our two way contact". If in doing this 
and using a few other Q code's on SSB, FM or AM I am offending someone I'd 
like to offer my sincere apologies up front (cause I'm gonna probably 
continue).

At my age, (with some 50+ ARRL log books filled - not counting the contest 
and Special Event logs) I still send EVERY new call I work a QSL (yes, it is 
getting expensive but I'm old and set in my ways and it's cheaper than good 
liquor anymore and I still feel the thrill of the card I receive - but alas 
at a much lower percentage than years past). Also, my time on Mother Earth 
is too short to be frustrated by being a QRP station. I am QRO and for this 
post, QRT.

The QCWA is a fine organization and I'm proud to be a late joining member, 
but QCWA is sure easier to communicate on SSB than 'Quarter Century Wireless 
Association'.

I do realize there are things that are so serious that you can only joke 
about them.

Don W7WLL
Licensed '54


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <n1cc at qcwa-hq.com>
To: "'Jeffrey D Angus'" <jdangus at att.net>; <qcwa at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [QCWA] Q-Signals


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


Jim LaPorta, N1CC
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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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