List of Abbreviations to be used in Radio Communications. Answer or Notice. Signal indicating that a station is about to send at high power. PRB Do you wish to communicate by means of the I wish to communicate by means of the Inter- national Signal Code. List of Abbreviations to be used in Radio Communications-Continued. Your spacing is bad. QSF Is transmission to be in alternate order or in Transmission will be in alternate order. Public correspondence is any radio work, official or private, handled on commercial wave lengths. When an abbreviation is followed by a mark of interrogation, it refers to the question indicated for that abbreviation. EXAMPLES. Stations. ABAR QRA? QRA Campania BQ R G Cunard Q R Z What is the name of your station? This is the Campania. To what line do you belong? I belong to the Cunard Line. Your signals are weak. Station A then increases the power of its transmitter and sends: How are you receiving? I am receiving well. The distance between our stations is 80 nautical miles. Certifié conforme à l'original déposé aux archives du Ministèro des Affaires Étrangères de Sa Majesté Britannique. EYRE A. CROWE Sous-Secrétaire d'État pour les Affaires Etrangères. Londres, le 20 septembre, 1912. And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified by the Government of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by Belgium (and the Belgian Congo), Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Monaco, Netherlands, the Netherlands Indies, and the Colony of Curaçao, Roumania, Russia, Siam, and Spain, and the ratifications of the said Governments were, by the provisions of Article 23 of the said Convention, deposited by their respective Plenipotentiaries with the Government of Great Britain. And whereas the Senate of the United States gave its advice and consent to the ratification of the said Convention with the following understanding: "that nothing in the Ninth Article of the Regulations affixed to the Convention shall be deemed to exclude the United States from the execution of her inspection laws upon vessels entering in or clearing from her ports." Now therefore, be it known that I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention and annexes to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof, subject to the said understanding. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, [SEAL.] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-eighth. WOODROW WILSON By the President: W. J. BRYAN Secretary of State. |