ZPA: Your speech is distorted
QNR: I am approaching my point of no return
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 6/16/2020 12:01 PM, Todd KH2TJ wrote:
Forget off hand what the Z code was for
"Your totally distorted"! but after a weeks worth of watchstanding,
I would
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
Years ago I came across a web site that had British intelligence agents
use of CW and Q codes for their spying communications. It was very
interesting to read all the Q codes meanings.
On 6/12/2020 11:33 AM, Fred Jensen wrote:
There were a number of Q-signal questions on my 2T exam in 1956.
There were a number of Q-signal questions on my 2T exam in 1956. The
Z's were used primarily by the military, I don't recall any in
commercial ops. Very common on military TTY channels in the 60's.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 6/12/2020 11:12 AM, Andy Durbin
QLF [not officially assigned] has been around a long time with several
similar meanings. A common [and fairly ancient] one is "Are you sending
with your left foot?" and "Please attempt to send with your left foot."
I believe QSD, "Is my keying defective?" and "Your keying is defective",
ACP 131(F) -
https://web.archive.org/web/20130215140321/http://jcs.dtic.mil/j6/cceb/acps/acp131/ACP131F09.pdf
Offered to NATO for adoption:
https://archives.nato.int/uploads/r/null/1/2/127387/SGM-0921-55_ENG_PDP.pdf
Was anyone actually expected to memorize all of these codes?
73,
Andy, k3wyc
sweep.
N2TK, Tony
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Good point Andy! QLF seems to refer to sending ability. ZBM2 refers to
overall
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. Jack Phillips, MGY, might have used it on
"Iceberg Night" had the Z's existed then when he was berating the
operators on
It used to be fun as net control on 80 back in the 50s when my call sign was
K5QNF.
Ed / W2RF
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"Who
"ZBM2: "Place a competent operator on watch on this frequency."
Is QLF the more sensitive equivalent??
73,
Andy, k3wyc
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I wrote a little ham utility that will look up prefixes, and Q/Z
signals, do QRZ searches, and tell me, given a call, if it's a member of
my several club associations. Building the Q/Z signal table was
enlightening ... I particularly like ZAA: "You are not observing proper
circuit
On 6/11/2020 2:52 PM, Andy Durbin wrote:
> "Who knew there were so many Q-codes :)" [QUQ]
> Either way, not a code that comes up in most QSO.
For those of us who were subjected to passing Element 5 to get the FCC
Radiotelegraph Operator License, we had to recognize a whole slew of
Q-Signals
"Who knew there were so many Q-codes :)"
My favorite from my time as a teenager in the cadet force signals wing was QUQ.
I had remembered it as "Shall I point my searchlight at a cloud, occulting if
necessary, in order to pinpoint my position".
Either my memory is playing tricks on me or the
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