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 54 STAT.] MULTILATERAL-TELECOMMUNICATION-APR. 8, 1938 6. Nomenclature of stations carrying on special services. 7. The General Radio Regulations and the Additional Radio Regulations as well as the provisions of the Convention necessary for the operation of radio-communication service on board ships. 8. The telegraph rates of the countries for which the station most frequently accepts radiotelegrams. B. Other"shipstations": The documents indicated in items 1 to 5 under part A. C. "Aircraft stations": 1. The documents indicated in items 1, 2, and 3 under part A. 2. The nomenclature of aeronautical and aircraft stations, or other documents containing official information relative to aeronautical and aircraft stations, necessary to the aircraft station for the performance of its service. APPENDIX 11 Abbreviations To Be Used in Radio Communications (See article 17) 1. Q Code ABBREVIATIONS TO BE USED IN ALL SERVICES 1 2 A. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER Question What is the name of your sta- tion? At what approximate distance are you from my station? By what private operating en- terprise (or government ad- ministration) are the accounts for charges of your station settled? Where are you going and where do you come from? Will you tell me what my exact frequency (wavelength) is in kilocycles (or meters)? Does my frequency (wave- length) vary? Is the tone of my transmission regular? Are you receiving me badly? Are my signals weak? What is the legibility of my sig- nals (1 to 5)? Answer or statement The name of my station is The approximate distance be- tween our stations is. . . nautical miles (or . . . kilo- meters). The accounts for charges of my station are settled by the . . . private operating enter- prise (or by the government administration of . . . ). Iamgoingto. . . andIcome from. .. Your exact frequency (wave- length) is. . . kilocycles (or . . . meters). Your frequency (wavelength) varies. The tone of your transmission varies. I cannot receive you. Your signals are too weak. The legibility of your signals is. . (1 to 6). I Abbreviations take the form of questions when they are followed by a question mark. ' The'series of signals QA to QD and QF to QN are reserved for the special code of the aeronautical service. 1621 Ante, p. 1507. Abbreviation QRA QRB QRC QRD QRG QRII QRI QRJ QRK

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