Galina Mihaylova & Anton Ivanov

Complete list of amateur radio codes and abbreviations

Complete list of amateur radio codes and abbreviations
Complete list of amateur radio codes and abbreviations

Complete list of radio amateur codes, abbreviations and expressions

I do not claim that it is absolutely complete, I can only claim that it is the complete list that I have heard in my activity as a radio amateur (the last 50 years of my life).

Code Meaning Notes
. . (two dots) Be healthy! All the best! Goodbye! Bye-bye! CW jargon at the end of the link
128 All the best and good night! (73 + 55) Among German-speakers
161 Greetings and kisses to the whole family! (88 + 73)
16th channel International Emergency Marine Channel 156.8 MHz
44 “Let’s save this world!” On “World Flora and Fauna”
55 Goodbye and good night Between German speakers
73 All the best, best wishes
88 Love and kisses
AA Everything after
AB Everything before
ABLE Possible, capable, abble
ABT About, approximately
ADR Address
AGN One more time, again
AIR Air
ALL All
AM Amplitude modulation, before noon
AND And
ANSWER Answer
ANT Antenna
ANY Whoever, any
AR End of cue (recommended at end of CQ) Transmitted merged
AS Waiting, waiting, hold on Transmitted merged
ASK I’m asking, asking for something
ALSO Also
AT At …. hours; on
BAND Width
BCNU We will meet again
BD Bad
BEAM Directional antenna
BEST Best
BETTER Better
BK Break, break, half duplex, break Not delivered merged
BN Everything between, between
BOOK Book
BOX Box
BTW By the way
BUG Semi-automatic telegraph switch
BULL Newsletter
BUSY Busy
BY At, from, through
C … degrees Celsius
CALL Initial, call
CAN I can
CC Quartz stabilization
CENTRAL Central
CFD Confirmed
CFM Confirm, I confirm
CHAT Friendly conversation
CHEERIO Hello, be healthy
CHEERIO Goodbye! Good luck! Happy travels! Quite informal
CHIRPY Chirp tone
CIAO Hello, be healthy, goodbye When QSO with an Italian
CL I’m closing (turning off) the radio station Transmitted merged
CL Initial, call sign, identifier
CLD Called
CLG Cryer
CLOUDY Cloudy
CODE Code, 87
COLD Cold
COME I’m coming, come
CONDS Terms of Acceptance
CONDX DX Terms
CONGRATS Congratulations
CONTEST Competition
CONV Converter, convert
COPY Recording, Accepting
COUNTRY Country
CPI Record, accept, accepted
CPY Record, accept, accepted
CQ General call, calling everyone
CQ DX I am calling far countries
CQ TEST Calling all contestants
CRD Card
CU I will call you, let’s meet
CUA Feeling
CUAGN We will meet again
CUD I could
CUDNT I couldn’t
CUL See you later
CW Telegraphy, radio telegraphy
DAY Day
DB Decibel
DE From, here (when using callsigns) For example: W9ZZ DE LZ3AI
DIPOLE Dipole (antenna type)
DIRECT Straight, straight
DIY Handmade
DO I do, do
DONT I don’t
DOUBLET Doublet, doublet (antenna type)
DOWN Down
DR Dear
DSW Goodbye (from Doswidaniya – Russian word) Between Russian speakers
DWN Down
DX Far country, far QSO
EAST East
EASY Easy
EMAIL Email
END End
ENOUGH Enough
EQSL Electronic QSL
EQUAL Equal
EQUIP Equipment, hardware
ES And, also
EVERY Everyone
EX Former
EXACT Correct
EXACTLY Exactly
EXHIBITION Exhibition
FAN Radio fan, listener
FAR Away
FAST Fast
FB Excellent
FEEDER Drain, feeder
FER About
FEW A little, a few
FINE Wonderful
FIRST First
FM Frequency Modulation
FM From
FOG Mist
FONE Telephony
PHONES Headphones
FOR About
FR About
FRD Friend
FREQ Frequency
FRIEND Friend
FRM From
FROM From
FULL Full
G5RV Antenna type
GA Good afternoon, good day
GA Go on, go on, pass on
GB Goodbye
GD Good day GA is preferred
GD Good
GE Good evening
GIVE I give
GL All the best, luck, chance, success
GLAD Delighted, pleased
GLD Delighted, pleased
GM Good morning
GN Good night
GOOD Good, good, good
GOOD LUCK All the best, good luck, good luck
GREETINGS Congratulations
GROUND Earth, grounding
GUD Good, good, good
GUNOR Your station cannot be heard
HAD I had
HALF Half
HAM Radio Amateur
HAMSHACK Radio Amateur Corner
HAMSPIRIT Radio Amateur Spirit
HANDLE Name (by which you are known)
HAPPY Happy
HAS He has
HAVE I have, we have, you have
HE He
HF High Frequency
HH Error correction, I was wrong Merging is done
HI Laughter, laughing
HIGN Tall
HIS His
HNY Happy New Year
HOLD Hold
HOLIDAY Holiday, vacation
HOME MADE Handmade
HONOR Respect, honor
HOPE I hope so
HOT Hot
HOUR Time
HOW How
HPE I hope so
HR Here
HR I hear
HRD I heard
HVNT I don’t have
HVY Heavy
HW CPY? How did you accept?
HW? How? How can you hear me? How did you accept?
HWS How is ….
I Me
IF If
IN In
INCREASE Zoom in
INFO Information
INPUT Power input
INVITE I invite
IS Well
ISL Island
IT It, him
JOB Profession, job
JOY Joy
K I finished the line, pass it to you please.
KEY Morse key
KN Only you transmit, let the others wait, please. Not delivered merged
KNOW I know
KNOWN I don’t know
KW Kilowatt
LAST Last
LAT Width (geographic), Latitude
LICENSE TX permission
LID Bad operator
LIFF Life
LIGHT Light
LIKE Like
LINE Line
LINK Connection
LISTEN Listening
LITTLE Little, little
LIVE I live
LIVING Living
LOCAL Local
LOG Log
LONG Long
LONG WIRE Long wire (antenna type)
LOOK Watching
LOOK FOR Following for …
LOTW Log of the World – Electronic QSL System
LOVE Love
LOW Low
LP Long propagation path of radio waves
LSN Listening, listen
LSTN Listening, listen
LTR Letter
LUCK Happiness
LUCKY Happy
LW Long wire (antenna type)
M Minute, meter
MA Milliamps
MANY A lot
MAP Geographic map
ME Me me
Me Me, me
MEET Meeting, meeting
MERRY Cheerful
MERRY XMAS Merry Christmas
MEZ Central European Time
MI Me, me
MIKE Microphone
MINE My
MNI A lot
MOD Modulation
MONTH Month
MORE More
MSG Message
MUST Must
MX Merry Christmas
MY Me, mine
N No, nothing, negation
NAME Name
NEAR Near, about
NEED Need
NET Network of stations
NET-CONTROL Network Manager
NEVER Never
NEW New
NEXT Next
NICE Kind, nice
NIGHT Night
NIL Nothing
NO No
NORTH Northern
NOT No
NOTE Note, I noticed
NOW Now
NR Near, about
NR Number
NW Now
OB Old Boy
OC Old comrade In social countries
OF To, for, from
OFF Turning off
OFTEN Often
OK Everything is fine
OLD Old
OLD TIMER Long time radio amateur
OM Old man, old friend, male radio amateur Friendly address
ON On
ONE One
ONLY Only
OP Operator
OPEN Open
OPR Operator
OPS Operators
OR Or
OSC Oscillator
OTHER Other
OUR Our
OWN Own
PA Power amplifier
PART Part, in part
PEACE Peace
PERCENT Percent
PIRATE Unauthorized radio station
PLATE Anode
PM After lunch
POBOX Mailbox
POST Post, after
POWER Power
PRINT Print, printout
PRINTED Printed
PSE Please
PSED Delighted, pleased
PWR Power
QAZ Thunderbolts, off
QRA My station name is …
QRB Distance between correspondents
QRG Your exact frequency is …
QRH Your frequency is changing
QRI The tone of your show is: 1. Good 2. Changeable 3. Bad
QRK The intelligibility of your signals is: 1. Bad 2. Poor 3. Average 4. Good 5. Excellent
QRL I am busy, please do not interfere
QRL? Is this frequency busy?
QRM I have interference (from…………) 1. Nothing 2. Mild 3. Moderate 4. Strong 5. Extremely strong
QRMER Who creates QRM
QRN I have electrostatic disturbance 1. None 2. Mild 3. Moderate 4. Severe 5. Extremely severe
QRO Increase the power
QRP Reduce power, low power to 10W
QRPP Very low power 0 to 5W
QRQ Transmit CW faster
QRR I’m ready for automatic operation
QRS Transmit slower
QRT Stop (stop) transmission
QRU I have nothing for you
QRV I’m ready
QRW Please inform……………. that I am calling him
QRX I will call you again, please wait
QRY Your turn is…
QRZ … … call you , or the site QRZ.COM
QSA Your signal strength is: 1.Barely detectable 2.Weak 3.Fairly good 4.Good 5.Very good
QSB Your signals are fading (Fading)
QSD Your manipulation is bad
QSG Transmit … messages at once
QSK I can hear you between my beeps (you may interrupt me)
QSL I confirm reception (QSO), confirmation
QSL QSL card
QSLL Reciprocal exchange of cards
QSM Repeat last message
QSO Direct (two-way) radio link
QSP I will hand over to …
QST General Call to ARRL
QSU Respond to frequency …
QSV Transmit series from VVV
QSW I will transmit on frequency …
QSX Listening on frequency…
QSY Switch (switch) to another frequency …
QSZ Transmit each word twice
QTC I have … messages for you
QTF My antenna azimuth is …
QTH My location is …
QTR Exact time …
R Understood, accepted, I confirm
RAIN Rain
RAINING It’s raining
RAINY Rainy
RAY Beam
RCVD Accepted, received
RCVR Receiver
RED Red, red, red, reds
RIG Radio station, equipment, transceiver
ROOM Room
ROUNDTABLE (About) Round Table
RPRT Report, Message
RPT Repeat, repeat
RX Receiver
SA I say, say
SAY I say, say
SAYONARA Goodbye When QSO with a Japanese
SEA Sea
SECOND Second
SED I said
SEND Sending, Transmitting
SENT Sent
SHALL Will
SHE She
SHORT Short
SIDE Side of something
SIGN Signature
SIGS Signals
SILENCE Silence
SIMPLE Simple
SINCE Since
SINCERELY Sincere
SINGLE Single
SK Final end of QSO Transmitted merged
SK Silents key, dead ham
SKED Scheduled connection
SLIGHT Easy
SLOW Slow
SLOWLY Slowly
SMALL Small
SN Coming soon
SO So
SOLID Solid, confident
SOME Some
SOON Coming soon
SORRY Sorry
SOUTH South
SP Short propagation path of radio waves
SRI I’m sorry, I apologize
STILL Still
STN Station
STOP Stop, period
STR Street
STREET Street
SUMMER Summer
SURE Sure
SW Short Waves
SWL Radio amateur – listener
TAKE Take
TAKE PART I take part
TALK I speak, I say
TELL I say, I speak
TEMP The temperature is …, temperature
TEST Trial, competition
TESTING Trying
TFC Traffic
TG Telegraphy
THAT The one
THE Definite Article
THEN Then
THERE There
THEY They
THINK I think
THIS This
THRU Through
TILL Until (in an hour)
TKS Thank you
TKU Thank you
TMRW Tomorrow
TMW Tomorrow
TNK I think
TNX Thank you
TO To
TODAY Today
TOGETHER Together
TOMORROW Tomorrow
TONE Tone
TONIGHT Tonight
TONITE Tonight
TOO Also At the end of a sentence
TOW Comrade In social countries
TOWN City
TRANSLATE Translating
TRANSMISSION Transmit
TRCVR Transceiver
TROUBLE Difficulty
TRX Transceiver
TRY Trying
TU For you, thank you
TUBE Radiolamp
TUBES Radio lamps
TV Television
TVI TV interference
TWIN Double
TX Transmitter
U You
UFB Extremely good (ultra excellent)
UHF Ultra high frequencies (decimeter range)
UNKNOWN Unknown
UNTIL While
UP Up, on
UR Your
URS Yours
US Us
USE I use
USED Used
USING User, using …
VERY A lot
VFO Oscillator, generator
VHF Very high frequency (meter range)
VIA Through
VY A lot
W Word
WAR War
WARM Warm
WAS It was
WATCH Clock
WAVE Wave
WAY Way, path
WDS Words
WE We
WEAK Weak
WEEK Week
WEEKEND End of the week
WELL Okay
WERE They were
WEST West
WHEN When, when
WHO Who, which
WHOLE Whole
WHY Why
WID With, with
WIDE Wide
WILL Will
WIND Windy
WINDOM Windom (antenna type)
WINDY Windy
WIRE Wire
WISH Wish
WISHES Wishes
WITH With
WKD Worked
WKG Working
WORK Working
WPM Words per minute
WRK Working
WRLS Wireless
WUD I would
WX Weather (meteorological)
XCUS Sorry
XMAS Christmas
XMTR Teacher
XPECT Waiting
XTAL Crystal
XYL Ham Wife, Mrs Ham
YAGI Yagi (type of directional antenna)
YEAR Year
YESTERDAY Yesterday
YET More
YL Young woman, Miss Ham
YOU You
YOUR Your
YOURS Yours
YR Year
ZEPP Zep, zeppelin (antenna type)
ZERO Null
ZONE Zone

 

BAD PRACTICE – NOT TO BE USED!

51 Go away, bad operator – not recommended
99 Go away, bad operator – not recommended
QQD, AAMH Swear. Not used on air. Among Bulgarians

73 de LZ3AI

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