Common Q Signals

QRG

Will you tell me my exact frequency?

Your exact frequency is.

QRH

Does my frequency vary?

Your frequency varies.

QRI

How is the tone of my transmission?
The tone of your transmission is.

QRJ

Are you receiving me badly?
Your signals are too weak.

QRK

What is the intelligibility of my signals?

The intelligibility of your signals.

QRL

Are you busy?
I am busy.

Please do not interfere.

QRM

Is my transmission being interferred with?
Your transmission is being interferred with.
 

QRN

Are you troubled by static?
I am troubled by static.

QRO

Shall I increase power?
Increase power.

QRP

Shall I decrease power?
Decrease power.

QRQ

Shall I send faster?
Send faster.

QRS

Shall I send more slowly?
Send more slowly.

QRT

Shall I stop sending?
Stop sending.

QRU

Have you anything for me?
I have nothing for you.

QRV

Are you ready?
I am ready.

QRX

When will you call me again?
I will call you again at.

QRZ - Who is calling me?
You are being called by...

QSB

Are my signals fading?
Your signals are fading.

QSK

Can you hear me in between your signals and if so, can I break in on your transmission?
I can hear you between my signals; break in on my transmission.

QSL

Can you acknowledge receipt?
I am acknowledging receipt.

QSO

Can you communicate with...direct or by relay?
I can communicate with... direct or by relay.

QSP

Will you relay to?
I will relay.

QST

General call proceding a message addressed to all amateurs.

QSY

Shall I change transmission to another frequency?
Change transmission to another frequency.

QSZ

Shall I send each word or group more than once?
Send each word or group more than once.

QTA

Shall I cancel message number...?
Cancel message number...

QTB

Do you agree with my counting of words?
I do not agree with your counting of words.

I will repeat the first letter or digit of each word or group.

QTC

How many messages have you to send?
I have... messages for you.

QTH

What is your location?
My location is...

QTR

What is the correct time?
The correct time is...

Signals for Morse Code

CW Abbreviations

AA All after
AB All before
ABT About
ADR Address

AGN Again

AM Amplitude Modulation

ANT Antenna

BCI Broadcast Interference

BCL Broadcast Listener

BK Break

BN Been

BUG Semi-Automatic key

B4 Before
C Yes

CFM Confirm

CK Check

CL Closing station

CLG Calling
CQ Calling any station

CW Continuous wave

DLD or DLVD Delivered

DR Dear

DX Distance

ES And
FB Fine Business / Excellent

FM Frequency Modulation
GA Go ahead

GM Good morning

GN Good night
GND Ground

GUD Good
HI Laugh

HR Here / Hear
HV Have

HW How

LID A poor operator

MA or MILS Millamperes

MSG Message

N No
NCS Net Control Station

ND Nothing doing
NIL Nothing

NM No more

NR Number
NW Now

OB Old boy

OC Old chap

OM Old man
OP or OPR Operator

OT Old timer

PBL Preamble

PSE Please

PWR Power
PX Press
R Received as transmitted

RCD Received
RCVR or RX Receiver

REF Referring to / Reference

RFI Radio frequency interference
RIG Station equipment
RTTY Radio teletype
SASE Self-addressed stamped envelope

SED Said
SIG Signature / Signal

SINE Operator's personal initials or nickname
SKED Schedule
SRI Sorry
SSB Single Side Band
SVC Service / Prefix to service message
T Zero
TFC Traffic
TMW Tomorrow

TKS or TNX Thanks
TT That
TU Thank you

TVI Television interference

TX Transmitter
TXT Text
UR Your / You're

URS Yours
VFO Variable Frequency Oscillator

VY Very
WA Word after

WB Word before

WD Word
WDS Words
WKD Worked

WKG Working
WL Well/ Will
WUD Would
WX Weather

XCVR Transceiver

XMTR Transmitter

XTAL Crystal
XYL Wife
YL Young lady

73 Best Regards

88 Love and kisses

                                        RST Reporting System

                                                  READABILITY
                                                  1 - Unreadable.
                                                  2 - Barely readable, occasional words distinguishable.
                                                  3 - Readable with considerable difficulty.
                                                  4 - Readable with practically no difficulty.
                                                  5 - Perfectly readable.

                                                  SIGNAL STRENGTH
                                                  1 - Faint signal, barely perceptible.
                                                  2 - Very weak signal.
                                                  3 - Weak signal.
                                                  4 - Fair signal.
                                                  5 - Fairly good signal.
                                                  6 - Good signal.
                                                  7 - Moderately strong signal.
                                                  8 - Strong signal.
                                                  9 - Extremely strong signal.

                                                  TONE
                                                  1 - Sixty cycle a.c. or less, very rough and broad.
                                                  2 - Very rough a.c., very harsh and broad.
                                                  3 - Rough a.c. tone, rectified but not filtered.
                                                  4 - Rough note, some trace of filtering.
                                                  5 - Filtered rectified a.c. but strongly ripple-modulated.
                                                  6 - Filtered tone, definite trace of ripple modulation.
                                                  7 - Near pure tone, trace of ripple modulation.
                                                  8 - Near perfect tone, slight trace of modulation.
                                                  9 - Perfect tone, no trace of ripple or modulation of any kind.