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Radio Acronyms
4000+
(Always under construction)
By Hugh Stegman NV6H
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Police/CB 10-codes
Other police codes
Computer networking standards
Acronym Definition
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ABN Airborne
ABNCP Airborne National Command Post
ABO Annular Beam Oscillator
ABOR Abort
ABU Asia Broadcast Union
AC (1)Alternating Current
AC (2)Active Components (US Army)
AC (3)Acquisition Center
AC&I Acquisition, Construction & Improvement
ACA (1)Airspace control authority
ACA (2)Australian Communications Authority
ACAA Automatic chemical agent alarm
ACAP Application Configuration Access Protocol (computing)
ACAPS Area communications electronics capabilities
ACARS Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System
ACAT Acquisition Category
ACC (1)Air Combat Command (US)
ACC (2)Area Communication Center
ACC (3)altocumulus castellanus
ACCHAN Allied Command Channel
ACCINTNET ACC Intelligence Network
ACCMSF Advanced Cooperative Collection Management
ACCS Air Command and Control System
ACE Airborne Command Element
ACERT Army Computer Emergency Response Team
ACF Autocorrelation Factor
ACFT MSHP aircraft mishap
ACI Air Control Intercept
ACINT Acoustic intelligence
ACIS Air Combat Information System
ACJ Advisory Circular, Joint
ACK Positive Acknowledgment (ASCII 06)
ACLS Automatic Carrier Landing System
ACM (1)Association for Computing Machinery
ACM (2)Advanced Cruise Missile
ACM (3)Air Combat Maneuvering
ACMI Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation
ACOM U.S. Atlantic Command
ACP (01)Allied Communication Publication (127, etc)
ACP (02)Allied Communication Protocol
ACP (03)Adjacent Channel Power
ACP (04)Adjacent Channel Protection
ACP (05)Access Control Point
ACP (06)Access Control Protocol
ACP (07)Access Communications Processor
ACP (08)Achieved Communication Performance (ARINC)
ACP (09)Adaptive Communications Processor
ACP (10)Advanced Communications Package
ACP (11)Alternate Command Post
ACP (12)Airborne Command Post
ACP (13)Area Command Post
ACP (14)Automated Command Post
ACP (14)Applied Communication Program
ACP (15)Automatic Communications Processor
ACP (16)Automatic Colt Pistol
ACP (17)Autoloading Colt Pistol
ACP100 Allied Call Sign and Address Group System - Instructions and Assignments
ACP110 Tactical Call Sign Book
ACP112 Task Organization Call Sign Book
ACP113 Call Sign Book for Ships
ACP117 Allied Routing Indicator Book
ACP119 Allied Tactical Voice Call Sign System - Instructions and Assignments
ACP121 Communications Instructions - General
ACP122 Communication Instructions - Security
ACP123 Common Messaging Strategy and Procedures
ACP124 Communication Instructions - Radiotelegraph Procedure
ACP125 Communication Instructions - Radiotelephone Procedure
ACP126 Communication Instructions - Radioteletype Procedure
ACP127 Communication Instructions - Tape Relay Procedures
ACP127SUP1A Allied RATT Procedures (RTTY)
ACP128 ALTERS Operating Procedures
ACP129 Communications Instructions - Visual Signalling Procedures
ACP130 Direction Finding Procedure
ACP131 Communication Instructions - Operating Signals
ACP134 Telephone Switchboard Operating Procedure
ACP135 Communications Instructions - Distress and Rescue Procedures
ACP136 Communication Instructions - Panel Signaling
ACP147 Call Sign Book for Merchant Ships in Time of War
ACP148 Allied Guide to Master
ACP149 Radio Communication Instructions for Merchant Ships Under Naval Control
ACP150 Recognition and Identification Instructions, Air, Land, and Sea Forces
ACP160 IFF SIF Operational Procedures
ACP165 Operational Brevity Codes
ACP167 Glossary of Communications-Electronics Terms
ACP168 Pyrotechnic Signals
ACP176 Allied Naval and Maritime Air Communication Instructions
ACP177 Land Forces Electronic Warfare Instructions
ACP178 Maritime Electronic Warfare Instructions
ACP179 Electronic Warfare Instructions for Air Forces
ACP190 Guide to Frequency Planning
ACP198 Instructions for the Preparation of Allied Communications Publications
ACR Armored cavalry regiment
ACRM Automated Communication Resource Manager
ACRONYM Actual Computer Related Overused Name You Mention
ACS (1)Assistant chief of staff
ACS (2)Agile Combat Support
ACS (3)Airborne COMINT System
ACS (4)Attitude Control System
ACSB Amplitude Compandored SideBand
ACSL altocumulus standing lenticular cloud
ACT Airborne Communications Terminal
ACTD Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration
ACTEX Active Controls Technology Experiments
ACTIVE Advanced Controls Technology for Integrated Vehicles
ACTS (1)Air Combat Training System
ACTS (2)Automated Computer Time Service
ACU Avionics Control Unit
ACW Air Control Wing (like 552nd AWACS at Tinker)
ADA (1)Americans with Disabilities Act
ADA (2)"Official" DoD computer language, not an acronym, named for Ada Babbage, the world's first programmer
ADAS AWOS Data Acquisition System (Nice nested acronym)
ADC Analog-to-Digital Convertor
ADCC Air Defense Control Center
addr Address
ADDS Aviation Digital Data Service
ADES Airdrop equipment and systems
ADF (1)Automatic direction finding
ADF (2)Australian Defence Forces
ADIZ Air Defense Identification Zone
ADM Admiral
ADMD Administration Management Domain
ADO (1)ActiveX Data Objects
ADO (2)Active Data Objects
ADOC Air defense operation center
ADONIS Article Delivery Over Network Information Systems
ADP Automated data processing
ADPCM Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation
ADPE Automated Data Processing Equipment
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FM (2)Field manual
FM (3)("Foxtrot Mike") VHF FM (US Navy)
FM (4)CW brevity: From
FM (5)Field Meteorological
FMA-net Frequency Management A-net
FMH Federal Meteorological Handbook
FMH-1 Federal Meteorological Handbook-1
FMH-2 Federal Meteorological Handbook No.2
FMO Frequency Management Office
FMOW FM Orderwire (US military)
FMP Fleet Modernization Program
FMS Foreign Military Sales
FMT-net Frequency Management Training net
FN French Navy
FNG Friendly new guy/gal (possible security risk)
FNPRM Further Notice of Proposed Rule Making (FCC)
FOB (1)Field Operations Bureau (FCC)
FOB (2)Freight On Board (shipping regs)
FOB (3)"Fresh Off the Boat" (humorous)
FOD Foreign Object Damage
FOIA Freedom of Information Act
FOLDOC Free Online Dictionary Of Computing
FORSCOM Forces Command
FORTRAN Formula Translator (early IBM computer language)
FOSIC Fleet Ocean Surveillance & Information Center
FOT Optimum Traffic Frequency (fq that will work most days of period)
FOUO For Official Use Only
FOV Field of View
Foxes THE QUICK BROWN FOX... test [~]
FPLMTS Future Public Land Mobile Telecommunications Systems
FPM Fast Page Mode
FPO Fleet Post Office
Fq Frequency
FQDN Fully Qualified Domain Name (Internet)
FQPSK Filtered Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
FR (1)Frequency Response
FR (2)Final report
FRA (1)Forward repair activities
FRA (2)Federal Request for Assistance (FEMA)
FRA (3)Fixed Radio Access
FRCM Federal Regional Coordinating Manager (FEMA)
Freq Frequency
FRMR Packet control frame: Frame Reject
FRN (1)FCC Registration Number
FRN (2)Free Radio Network
FROPA frontal passage
FRP (1)Federal Response Plan (FEMA)
FRP (2)Fleet Response Plan
FRQ frequent
FRS Family Radio Service
FS File Separator (ASCII)
FS-1037C Official Federal Telecom Glossary, replaced by ATIS
FSB Forward support battalion
FSBS (Consolidated) Fixed Submarine Broadcast System
FSC Full Scope Command (USAF HF Phase II)
FSD Federal Security Director
FSE Fire support element
FSF Free Software Foundation
FSK Frequency-shift keying
FSL Forecast Systems Laboratory
FSM Facility Status Message
FSOC Fairchild Satellite Op Center, Fairchild AFB, WA
FSP (1)File Service protocol (Internet)
FSP (2)File Slurping Protocol
FSP (3)Flaky Stream Protocol
FSP (4)FTP's Sexy Partner
FSRAM Fast Static Random Access Memory
FSS Fixed-Satellite Service
FST Forward surgical team
FSTS Federal Secure Telecommunications System
FSU Former Soviet Union
FT (1)Terminal Forecast (weather)
FT (2)Feet
ft foot
FTA F--- The Army
FTAM File Transfer Access and Management
FTG F--- The Guard
FTI Fixed Target Indicator
FTP File Transfer Protocol
FTS Federal Telephone System
FTW F--- The World
FU Smoke (from French)
FUBAR [Fouled] Up Beyond All Recognition
FUD Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (computer marketing technique)
FV Fishing Vessel
FVLF Fixed, Very Low Frequency
FW Fighter Wing (USAF)
FWA Fixed Wireless Access
fwd forward
FWE Fighter Wing Equivalent
FWIW For What It's Worth
FWOC Fleet Weather and Oceanographic Centre (UK)
FY Fiscal Year
FYEO For Your Eyes Only
FYI For your information
FZ freezing
FZRANO freezing rain sensor not available
G (1)Conductance, reciprocal of R, in mhos, ohm backwards
G (2)Gust
G/T "G over T", antenna gain divided by noise temperature
G1 Asst. Chief of staff, personnel (US Army)
G2 Asst. Chief of staff, intelligence (US Army)
G3 Asst. Chief of staff, operations and plans (US Army)
G4 Asst. Chief of staff, logistics (US Army)
G5 Asst. Chief of staff, civil affairs (US Army)
G6 Asst. Chief of staff, information mgmt. (US Army)
GA (1)CW prosign: go ahead
GA (2)CW brevity code: Good Afternoon
GaAs Gallium Arsenide
GaAsFET Gallium Arsenide Field Effect Transistor
GACC Geographic Area Coordination Centers (USFS)
GAFRAN Stationary German Air Force
GAK Government Access to Key
GALEX Galaxy Evolution Explorer (NASA)
GaN Gallium Nitride
Gantsec Greater Antilles Section (US military/federal, out of Puerto Rico)
GAO General Accounting Office (US Government)
GATM Global Air Traffic Management
GATR ground-to-air transmitter/receiver
GBDL Ground Based Data Link
GBI Ground-Based Interceptor
GBL Ground-Based Laser
Gbps Gigabytes per second
GBR Ground Based Radar
GBS (1)Global Broadcast System
GBS (2)Ground Based Sensor
GCA Ground Controlled Approach
GCAS Ground Collision Avoidance System
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OD (2)Overdose
OD (3)Outside Diameter
ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity (Microsoft)
ODMA Orthogonal Domain Multiple Access
ODMP Orbiter Maintenance Down Period (NASA)
OE Operating Expense
OEI One Engine Inoperative
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
OFCM Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology
OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex
OFP Operational Flight Program
OG Operations Group
OGA Other Governmental Agencies (formerly "NOC")
OHD overhead
OIC Officer In Charge
OIS Organization for Internet Security
OLAC Open Language Archives Community
OLAP On-Line Analytical Processing
OLF Outlying Landing Field (US Navy)
OLTP On-Line Transaction Processing (IBM)
OLX OLE Custom Control (MS made it up... i didn't)
OM Male voice ("Old Man")
OMEGA Optimized Method for Estimated Guidance Accuracy (VLF Navigation)
OMF (Weather) Observation Markup Format
OMS ("ohms") Orbital Maneuvering System (NASA)
OO Official Observer (Amateur)
OOB (1)Out of band
OOB (2)Out Of Bounds (classic Internet hack)
OOC Official Observer Coordinator (Amateur)
OOK On-off keying
OOOI Out, Off, On, In (ACARS time reporting)
OOP Object-Oriented Programming
OOW Operations Other than War
OP Observation Post
op Operation
OPAL Orbiting Picosat Automatic Launcher
OPBAT Operations, Bahamas and Turks (see JTF)
OPC (1)Ocean Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD
OPC (2)Operations Center
OPCEN Operations Center
OPCODE Operations code
OPCON Operational control
OPF Orbiter Processing Facility (NASA)
OPLAN Operations plan
OPORD Operation order
OPSEC Operation Security
OQPSK Offset Quadrature Phase Shift Keying
OR Offroute (unscheduled flights, usually military)
ORACLE Oak Ridge Automated Computer and Logical Engine
ORBS Open Relay Behaviour-modification System (anti-email-spam)
ORF Oesterreichischer Rundfunk (Austrian broadcasting co.)
ORFM Office of Radio Frequency Management
org organization (Internet)
OS (1)Operating system (code that runs a computer)
OS (2)Operations Support
OS Operations Specialist (combines older USCG RD and TC)
OS/2 Operating System 2, proprietary IBM op-system for PS/2
OS/2 Operating System II (IBM)
OSC (1)Operations Systems Center, USCG, VA
OSC (2)On-Scene Coordinator
OSC (3)Oscillator [~]
OSCAR Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio
OSCE Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
OSCR Ocean Surface Current Radar
OSEI Operational Significant Event Imagery (NOAA)
OSI Open Systems Interconnection (coincidentally, OSI is by ISO)
OSIR ISO's famous 7-layer "OSI Reference Model" for packet
OSIRM ISO's famous 7-layer "OSI Reference Model" for packet
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
OSS Office of Special Services, WWII
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy (US Government)
OSWER Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response
OTAN NATO in French
OTAR Over-The-Air Rekeying (crypto)
OTASP Over-the-Air Service Provisioning (telco)
OTCIXS Officer in Tactical Command Information Exchange System
OTHB Over The Horizon Backscatter radar
OTHR Over the horizon radar
OUI Organizationally Unique Identifier
Out Voice prosign: Contact completed, going back to listening
OVC overcast
Over Voice prosign: Transmission completed, go ahead
OVR Overcast
OWF Optimum Working Frequency, realtime version of FOT
OWI Office of War Information, WW II
P greater than
P Plus
P Power (in watts)
P/N Part number
p/p (1)phone patch
p/p (2)point-to-point
p/p (3)peak-to-peak
PA (1)Power amplifier
PA (2)Public address system
PA (3)Passenger agent
PA (4)Privacy Act
PA (5)Proceed Authority
PAC (1)Pacific
PAC (2)Personnel and Administration Center
PAC (3)Political Action Committee
PAC-3 Patriot Advance Capability 3
PACAF Pacific Air Force (US)
PACAREA Pacific Area (USCG)
PACSAT Packet radio satellite
PACTOR Packet teleprinting over radio (modes 1 and 2)
PAD Packet assembler/disassembler
PADAN PAcket Digital Amateur Network
PADIL PATRIOT Digital Information Link (US missile batteries)
PAL Plus 16:9 PAL
PAL (1)Phase Alternate Line (W. Europe TV standard)
PAL (2)Positive Arm Latches
PAM (1)Phase-Amplitude Modulation, modems
PAM (2)Pulse Amplitude Modulation
PAM (3)Pluggable Authentication Modules (Linux)
PAN Prosign: priority safety traffic follows (also "PAN PAN") [~]
PANA Pan-African News Agency
PanAmSat Pan American Satellite Co., operates 17 COMSATs
PAO Public affairs officer
PAP (1)Polska Agencja Prasowa
PAP (2)Password Authentication Protocol, computer networks
PAPI Precision Approach Path Indicator
PAR Precision Radar Approach, new name for GCA
PARC Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox, obsolete)
PASR personnel accounting and strength reporting
PATRECONFOR Patrol and Reconnaissance Force (US Navy)
PATWAS Pilot Automated Telephone Weather Answering Service
PAVE PAWS Phased array SLBM warning system, 4 US Coastal sites
PAVE Precision Acquisition Vehicle Entry
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TTY Teletype
TTYL Talk (Type) To You Later (Internet)
TU (1)CW brevity: Thank you
TU (2)Terminal unit (old current-loop RTTY)
TUBA TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses (possible Internet extension)
TV Television
TVA Tennessee Valley Authority (big dam operator)
TVC Televisió de Catalunya (Catelan TV, Barcelona)
TVI Television interference
TVNZ Television New Zealand
TWA (1)Trailing-wire antenna (USN ELF/Tacamo)
TWA (2)Tilt Whip Adaptor (US Army)
TWA (3)Trans World Airways
TWAIN (1)Toolkit Without An Important Name (Standard graphic scanner interface)
TWAIN (2)Technology Without An Interesting Name
TWAS This Was (ALE)
TWEB Transcribed Weather Broadcast
Twinplex Four-frequency duplex teleprinter system
TWR (1)tower
TWR (2)Trans World Radio
TWT Traveling Wave Tube
TWX Teletype Wide-area eXchange
tx Transmitter, talk
TXD Transmitted Data (Serial I/O modem line)
txt (1)Extension: file is unformatted ASCII text (computers)
txt (2)Text
U CW brevity code: "You"
U Up
U/L (1) Uplink
U/L (2) Upload
UA (1)Packet control frame: Unnumbered Acknowledgement
UA (2)User Agent (Internet)
uA Microamp
UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (computer)
U-ATA Ultra-AT Attachment
UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (USAF)
UCVE Unconfined Vapor Cloud Explosion
UDP User Datagram Protocol, type of Internet packet good for streaming
UDRE User Differential Range Error (GPS)
UDT (1)Universal Dataflow and Telecommunications
UDT (2)Underwater Demolition Team, crack USN WWII unit
UEJ Unattended Expendable Jammer
uf Microfarad
UFN Until Further Notice
UFO (1)Unidentified Flying Object
UFO (2)UHF Follow On, new Navy COMSAT
UGR Unitized group ration
UHF Ultra High Frequency (300-3000 MHz)
UI (1)User Interface
UI (2)Packet designator: Unnumbered Information
UI (3)User Initiated
UID User Identification
UIDL User Initiated Download
UIN Universal Internet Number (ICQ)
UK United Kingdom
UKADGE UK Air Defense Ground Environment
UKCC United Kingdom Control Center
UKMACCS United Kingdom Maritime Coastal Communications System
UKMET United Kingdom Office of Meteorology (also a model)
UKNET UK network for UUCP
UKSOF UK Satellite operations facility, part of NATO
UL (1)Upload
UL (2)Unauthorized launch
UL (3)Underwriters' Laboratories
ULS Universal Licensing System (FCC)
UMT Unit ministry team
UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
UN United Nations
UNB Universal Magnetic Balun
uncl unclassified
UNCLASS Message is not classified [~]
UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
UNF (1) UN Forces
UNF (2) Unformatted
UNHCR UN High Commission for Refugees
UNI User Network Interface
Unid Unidentified
Uniden Unidentified
UNIFIL UN Interim Forces, Lebanon
Univac Universal Automatic Computer, once IBM's main competition
Unix Not an acronym; computer op-system derived from MULTICS [~]
Unk Unknown
UNO United Nations Organization
UNPROFOR UN Provisional Forces
UNSCOM UN Special Commission (Iraq inspectors)
UP (1)CW prosign: "change to working frequency"
UP (2)unknown precipitation
UPNP Universal Plug aNd Play
UPS (1)Uninterruptible Power Supply
UPS (2)United Parcel Service
UR CW brevity code: "Your"
URE Unión de Radioaficionados Españoles
Ureq User request (computer return code)
URL Universal Resource Locator (World Wide Web)
URSI International Union of Radio Science
URSIGRAM Coded solar-terrestrial report, originally from URSI
US (1)United States
US (2)Unit Separator (ASCII)
USA (1)United States of America
USA (2)US Army
USA (3)Underground Service Alert ("dial before you dig")
USA (4)Unit self-assessment
USACE US Army Corps of Engineers
USADA US Department of the Army
USAF US Air Force
USAFA US Air Force Academy
USAFAWC US Air Force Air Warfare Center
USAFE US Air Forces, Europe
USAIS US Army Intelligence and Security Command, VA
USAMMA US Army Medical Materiel Agency
USAR (1)Urban Search & Rescue
USAR (2)US Army Reserve
USAREUR US Army, Europe
USARSPACE US Army Space Command, part of USSPACECOM
USART Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USASC US Army Signal Command
USASCH US Army Support Command Hawaii
USASDC U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command, now USASSDC
USASI US Army Space Institute
USASSDC US Army Space and Strategic Defense Command, formerly USASDC
USAV US Army Vessel
USAWC US Army War College
USB (1)Upper Sideband
USB (2)Universal Serial Bus
USC (1)United States Codes (Federal statute law)
USC (2)Unified Space Command, now USSPACECOM
USC (3)Up S[pit] Creek
USCENTCOM US Central Command
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VLB VESA Local Bus; PC display bus, now usually done by the PCI
VLF Very Low Frequency (3-30 kHz)
VLM Virtual Loadable Module (Novell)
VM (1)Voice mirror
VM (2)Virtual memory
VMC Visual Meteorological Conditions
VMS Virtual Memory System, good but obsolete DEC OS
VNA Viet Nam News Agency
Vne Absolute top speed of an aircraft; "never exceed"
VOA Voice Of America
Vocoder Voice coder
VOH Voice Of Hope (KVOH, religious broadcaster)
VOIP Voice Over Internet Protocol
VOLMET Flight weather transmission, for planes in route
Volt Unit of electrical potential, named for Alessandro Volta
VOM Volt-Ohm Meter
VOMUX Voice Multiplexer
VOR (1)VHF Omnidirectional Ranging (Aircraft NAVAID)
VOR (2)Voice Of Russia
VORTAC Ground station combining VOR and TACAN
VOX Voice operated switching
VPF Vertical Processing Facility (NASA)
VR (1)Voltage regulator
VR (2)Visual Route (air training route)
VRAM Video RAM
VRB Variable wind
VRC (1)Vehicular Radio Communications (AN/VRC-xxx)
VRC (2)Vehicular radio configuration (Army)
VRC (3)Vertical Redundancy Check, fancy name for parity (computers)
VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language
VROC Vertical rate of climb
VRT Vlaamse Radio- en Televiseomroep (Belgian)
VSAT Very Small Aperture (Antenna) Terminal
VSC Vertical Service Code (telco features - start with *)
VSFC Virginia Space Flight Center, Wallops Island
vsh Visual Shell, clunky full-screen command interpreter for Unix
VSWR Voltage standing wave ratio
VT (1)Vertical Tab (ASCII)
VT (2)Valid Time (wx forecasts)
VTnnn Series of old DEC terminals, still a popular emulation code
VTP Virtual Terminal Protocol
VTS Vessel Traffic Services
VTVM Vacuum-tube voltmeter
VU Volume Units
VUFER VHF/UHF Frequency Experimental Radio
VV Vertical Visibility (of obscured sky)
VVV CW test group
VWS Virtual Warning System
VxD Virtual Device Driver (MS-Windows)
VXO Variable Crystal Oscillator
VY CW brevity code: "Very"
W Power, in watts
W west
W Whisky ("Benchmark Whisky" is USN offset)
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WA (1)CW prosign: word after
WA (2)Work Authority (railroad orders)
WABNRES Worldwide Airborne Resources (command a/c)
WAC (1)Worked All Continents (amateur award)
WAC (2)Women's Army Corps, obsolete
WAC (3)World Aeronautical Chart
WAD Wide-Area Domain (computer games)
WAFS World Area Forecast System, satellite delivered air wx
WAGB USCG designation for icebreaker
WAIS Wide-Area Information Server
WAMS Wide Area Master Station
WAN (1)Wide-Area Network
WAN (2)Wide-Area Network Station
WAP (1)Wireless Application Protocol
WAP (2)Wireless Access Point
WARC World Administrative Radio Conference
WARN Weather Amateur Radio Network, see SKYWARN
WARP Weather and Radar Processor
WAS (1)Wide-Area Surveillance
WAS (2)Worked All States (US amateur award)
WAS/MTI Wide Area Surveillance/Moving Target Identification
WATS Wide Area Telephone Service
WAZ Worked All Zones (amateur award)
WB (1)Wideband
WB (2)CW prosign: word before
WB (3)Welcome Back (Internet)
WB (4)Warner Bros (Good movie studio, lousy TV network)
WBFM Wideband frequency modulation
WBU World Broadcasting Unions
WBU-ISOG WBU Inter-Union Satellite Operations Group
WBU-TC World Broadcasting Unions Training Centers
WCRP (1)World Climate Research Program
WCS (1)Wireless Communications Service
WCS (2)Waste Collection System (Space shuttle potty)
WDC World Data Center, any of several for solar-terrestrial obs
W-DCMA Wideband Code Division Multiple Access
WE Western Electric
WEFAX Weather Facsimile
WEMA Work Equipment Movement Authority (railroad orders)
WEMF World Electronic Media Forum
WEP Wired Equivalent Privacy (wireless computer LANs)
WFAS Wildland Fire Assessment System (USFS)
WFM Wideband FM
WFN War Fighter Net
WFO Weather Forecast Office
WG Working Group (ITU)
WG/SO Working Group for Surface Observations
WGI World Geophysical Interval (research observation period)
WHCA White House Communications Agency
WHEC High-Endurance Cutter (USCG)
WHISC Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (see SOA)
whoami Returns name you are logged in under (Unix) [~]
whois Internet lookup program for finding people by querying servers [~]
WIE With Immediate Effect
WIFCOM Wirefree communications (US Navy)
Wi-Fi Wireless Fidelity, 802.11 standard interface; originally 802.11b
Wilco Voice prosign: Will comply
WIMP (1) Window, Icon, Mouse, Pointer (graphical interface)
WIMP (2) Weakly Interacting Massive Particle
WINS Windows Internet Naming Service
WINSOCK Windows Sockets API, used for networking from Microsoft s/w
WISE Web-Integrated Software metrics Environment
WIU Wayside Interface Unit (railroad)
WIX USCG designation for training barque Eagle
Wkg Working
WL Wordlength, size of basic data group (computing)
WLAN Wireless Local Area Network (computing)
WLB Seagoing Buoy Tender (USCG)
WLI Inland Buoy Tender (USCG)
WLIC Inland Construction Tender (USCG)
WLIS We Love Interval Signals (Pirate)
WLL wireless local loop
WLM Coastal Buoy Tender (Medium Endurance USCG vessel)
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ZNR Military Z-code: Msg may be forwarded without change by radio or non-approved circuit
ZNR UUUUU Security Warning Signal: Message is Unclassified or offline encrypted - OK to forward unchanged on any circuit
ZNX You have disclosed an EEFI (1-10; see EEFI)
ZNY Military Z-code: Do not forward this message unencrypted by
radio or non-approved circuit.
ZNY RRRRR Security Warning Signal: Message is RESTRICTED
ZNY CCCCC Security Warning Signal: Message is CONFIDENTIAL
ZNY SSSSS Security Warning Signal: Message is SECRET
ZNY TTTTT Security Warning Signal: Message is TOP SECRET
ZRF Zero Retention Force
ZRO Z-code: How copy?
ZSR Z-code: You are strong-readable
ZUC Z-code: Unable to comply until ----
ZUH Z-code: Unable to comply
ZUT (1)Unofficial Z-code: "CW Forever!" (see CW)
ZUT (2)Zeta Upsilon Tau, 60s US Coast Guard radio op society
ZWEI ZWEI Was EINE Initially (recursive acronym; see EINE)
ZWR Z-code: You are weak-readable
° degrees
? wavelength
µ micro
µµF micro-microfarad, now pF
µH microhenry
µV microvolt
? ohms
? angle theta
Police/CB 10-codes:
Bell 103 300 bps FSK (US modem tones, see V.21)
Bell 212A 1200 bps (US modem tones, see V.22)
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V.nn Prefix for CCITT specs - these are for phone modems
V.17 Fax modem spec, to 14400 bps
V.21 aka "Bell 103," the old 300 bps modem spec, makes sound like RTTY
V.22 aka "Bell 212A," 1200 bps modem spec, slight differences
V.22bis Above spec extended to 2400 bps
V.23 1200/75 bps modem spec
V.24 data link spec - equiv RS232
V.25bis modem control sequence for international calls, lost out to Hayes
V.26bis 2400bps half duplex synchronous, used for fax
V.27ter 4800bps half duplex synchronous, used for fax
V.28 Data link spec
V.32 9600/4800bps
V.32bis 14.4K/12K/9600/7200/4800bps
V.32 terbo (V.32 bis ter) proprietary modem spec for 19,200
V.34 33.6K/31.2K/28.8K/26.4K/24K/19.2K/16.8K/14.4Kbps, then like V.32
V.42 LAPM error control, 1200bps and above
V.42bis Data compression, 1200bps and above
V.90 56Kb, falls back like 56Kflex
V.FC V.Fast Class: unofficial, 19.2Kbps
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