Slang radioamatorski

Slang radioamatorski – slang używany przez krótkofalowców z całego świata. Został stworzony, aby skrócić czas potrzebny na nadanie wiadomości alfabetem Morse’a. Większość wyrazów stworzonych na potrzeby tego slangu to skróty od słów angielskich lub ciągi liter, które po przeczytaniu mają wydźwięk podobny jak słowa w języku angielskim. Do odczytania większości skrótów występujących w tym slangu wystarczy podstawowa znajomość języka angielskiego. Poniżej znajduje się tabela z podstawowymi skrótami w nim występującymi. W kolumnie „Pochodzenie” podano pochodzenie z języka angielskiego, chyba że zaznaczono inaczej.

Ciekawostki 🙂

92 Code – Western Union in 1859 r.

Several of the codes are taken from The Telegraph Instructor by G.M. Dodge. Dodge notes: Other numerical signals are used by different railroads for different purposes, for instance, the signal “47” upon some railroads means “display signals”; while the signal “48” means “signals are displayed”. The numerals “9” and “12” are frequently used for “correct”. Other numerals are used for the different officials’ messages, agents’ messages, etc.

Codes that are not listed in the 1901 edition of Dodge are marked with an asterisk (*).

In the above list, the numbers 19 and 31 refer to train order operations, whereby messages from the dispatcher about changes in railroad routing and scheduling were written on paper forms. Form 19 was designed to be passed to the train as it went through a station at speed; Form 31 required hand delivery for confirmation.

Today, amateur radio operators still use codes 73 and 88 profusely, and -30- is used in journalism, as it was shorthand for „No more – the end”. The Young Ladies Radio League uses code 33 to mean „love sealed with friendship and mutual respect between one YL (Young Lady) and another YL.” The other codes have mostly fallen into disuse.

1873 Telegraph Rules from the Lakeshore and Tuscarawas Valley Railway Company

The following code was taken from 1873 telegraph rulebook of the Lakeshore and Tuscarawas Valley Railway Company of Clevel.and, Ohio.

The Phillips Code is a brevity code (shorthand) created in 1879 by Walter P. Phillips (then of the Associated Press) for the rapid transmission of press reports by telegraph. It defined hundreds of abbreviations and initialisms for commonly used words that news authors and copy desk staff would commonly use. There were subcodes for commodities and stocks called the Market Code, a Baseball Supplement, and single-letter codes for Option Months. The last official edition was published in 1925, but there was also a Market supplement last published in 1909 that was separate.

The code consists of a dictionary of common words or phrases and their associated abbreviations. Extremely common terms are represented by a single letter (C: See; Y: Year); those less frequently used gain successively longer abbreviations (Ab: About; Abb: Abbreviate; Abty: Ability; Acmpd: Accompanied).

Later, The Evans Basic English Code expanded the 1,760 abbreviations in the Phillips Code to 3,848 abbreviations.