Brevity code

Radio & telegraph signals encoding longer definitions

Brevity codes are used in amateur radio, maritime, aviation 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
  • 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