Brevity code

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

• Brevity codes on the RadioReference wiki

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