Brevity codes are used in amateur radio, maritime, aviation and military communications. The codes are designed to convey complex information with a few words or codes. Some terms are
classified
Classified may refer to:
General
*Classified information, material that a government body deems to be sensitive
*Classified advertising or "classifieds"
Music
*Classified (rapper) (born 1977), Canadian rapper
*The Classified, a 1980s American roc ...
to the public.
List of brevity codes
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ACP-131 Allied military brevity codes
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ARRL Numbered Radiogram
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Commercial codes such as the ''
Acme Commodity and Phrase Code
''Acme Commodity and Phrase Code'' is a codebook providing the general-purpose Commercial code (communications), commercial telegraph code known as the ''Acme Code''. It was published in 1923 by the Acme Code Company. The book provides a listing ...
'', the ''ABC Telegraphic Code'', ''Bentley's Complete Phrase Code'', and ''Unicode''
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Fox (code word)
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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
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Ten-code, North American police brevity codes, including such notable ones as 10-4
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Phillips Code
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NOTAM Code
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Wire signal, Morse Code abbreviation, also known as
92 Code. Appears in informal language-independent HAM conversations
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World War II Allied names for Japanese aircraft
The World War II Allied names for Japanese aircraft were reporting names, often described as codenames, given by Allied personnel to Imperial Japanese aircraft during the Pacific campaign of World War II. The names were used by Allied personnel ...
See also
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Operating signals
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SINPO code, code used to describe the quality of radio transmissions, especially in reception reports written by shortwave listeners
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R-S-T system, information about the quality of a radio signal being received. Used by amateur radio operators, shortwave listeners
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Morse code abbreviations
Morse code abbreviations are used to speed up Morse communications by foreshortening textual words and phrases. Morse abbreviations are short forms, representing normal textual words and phrases formed from some (fewer) characters taken from the w ...
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Telegraphese
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List of HTTP status codes
External links
Brevity codeson the RadioReference wiki
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