====================================================================== = Brevity_code = ====================================================================== Introduction ====================================================================== Brevity codes are used in amateur radio, maritime, aviation, police, and military communications. They are designed to convey complex information with a few words or codes. Some are classified from the public. List ====================================================================== * ACP-131 Allied military brevity codes * ARRL Numbered Radiogram * Commercial codes such as the 'Acme Commodity and Phrase Code', the 'ABC Telegraphic Code', 'Bentley's Complete Phrase Code', and 'Unicode' * Fox * Multiservice tactical brevity code used by various military forces. The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words, when brevity is required but security is not * Ten-code, North American police brevity codes, including such notable ones as 10-4 * Phillips Code * NOTAM Code * Q code, currently used mainly by amateur radio operators especially when using Morse code, originally designed for use by British ships and coastal stations * Wire signal, Morse Code abbreviation, also known as 92 Code. Appears in informal language-independent ham conversations * World War II Allied names for Japanese aircraft See also ====================================================================== * Operating signals * SINPO code, code used to describe the quality of radio transmissions, especially in reception reports written by shortwave listeners * R-S-T system, information about the quality of a radio signal being received. Used by amateur radio operators, shortwave listeners * Morse code abbreviations * Telegraphese * List of HTTP status codes * Tactical designator External links ====================================================================== * [https://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Brevity_codes Brevity codes] on the RadioReference wiki 20 License ========= All content on Gopherpedia comes from Wikipedia, and is licensed under CC-BY-SA License URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Original Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevity_code .