Operating Rules and Procedures

Operational Abbreviations

Like Q Codes, Operational Abbreviations are used in radiocommunications to speed up the sending of messages and to facilitate conversations between operators speaking different languages.  The relevant Operational Abbreviations are:

BK Signal used to interrupt a transmission in progress
CQ General call to all stations / call for a contact with another station
CW Continuous wave
DE From, used to separate the call sign of the station called from that of the calling station
K Invitation to transmit
MSG Message
PSE Please
RST Readability, signal-strength, tone-report
R Received
RX Receiver
TX Transmitter
UR Your