Amateur Radio Q Codes

• QRA – What is the name of your station
• QRB – How far, approximately, are you from my station
• QRC – What authority/administration settles the accounts of your station
• QRD – Where are you bound and where are you from
• QRE – What is your estimated time of arrival at …(place)
• QRF – Are you returning to …(place)
• QRG – Will you tell me my exact frequency or that of …(call sign)
• QRH – Does my frequency vary
• QRI – How is the tone of my transmission
• QRJ – How many radio telephone calls have you to book. (See notes at the end of this list for possible alternative meanings).
• QRK – What is the intelligibility of my signals or those of …(call sign)
• QRL – Are you busy
• QRM – Are you being interfered with
• QRN – Are you troubled by static
• QRO – Shall I increase transmitter power
• QRP – Shall I decrease transmitter power
• QRQ – Shall I send faster
• QRR – Are you ready for automatic operation. (Also used by the Russian Military to mean: – Shall I start working using simplex encrypted CW)
• QRS – Shall I send more slowly
• QRSS – Send extremely slowly
• QRT – Shall I stop sending
• QRU – Have you anything for me
• QRV – Are you ready
• QRW – Shall I inform …(call sign) that you are calling him on … kHz/MHz
• QRX – When will you call me again on … kHz/MHz. Must I wait
• QRY – What is my turn
• QRZ – Who is calling me
• QSA – What is the strength of my signals or those of …(call sign)
• QSB – Are my signals fading
• QSC – Are you a cargo vessel
• QSD – Is my keying defective
• QSE – What is the estimated drift of the survival craft. (See notes at the end of this list for a possible alternative meaning).
• QSF – Have you affected rescue. (See notes at the end of this list for a possible alternative meaning).
• QSG – Shall I send … (number) telegrams at a time
• QSH – Are you able to home on your D/F equipment? (See notes at the end of this list for a possible alternative meaning).
• QSI – Will you inform …(call sign) that I have been unable to break in
• QSJ – What is the charge to be collected to …(call sign), including your charge
• QSK – Can you hear me between your signals and, if so, can I break in
• QSL – Can you acknowledge receipt
• QSLL – Officially unrecognized code, but used by the Amateur Radio Service to mean I will send you a QSL card for this contact after I receive one from you
• QSM – Shall I repeat the last telegram which I sent to you
• QSN – Did you hear me or …(call sign) on … kHz/MHz
• QSO – Can you communicate with …(call sign)QSP Will you relay to …(call sign), free of charge
• QSQ – Have you a doctor on board or Is …(named person) on board
• QSR – Shall I repeat the call on the calling frequency. (See notes at the end of this list for a possible alternative meaning).
• QSS – What working frequency will you use
• QST – Unassigned, but adopted by the American Radio Relay League to mean CQ ARRL members. Also the title of the ARRL’s official journal.
• QSU – Shall I send or reply on this frequency or on … kHz/MHz
• QSV – Shall I send a series of V’s on this frequency or on … kHz/MHz
• QSW – Will you send on this frequency or on … kHz/MHz
• QSX – Will you listen to …(call sign) on … kHz/MHz
• QSY – Shall I change to transmission on another frequency
• QSZ – Shall I send each word or group more than once
• QTA -Shall I cancel telegram number …
• QTB – Do you agree with my counting of words
• QTC – How many telegrams have you to send
• QTD – What has the rescue vessel or rescue aircraft recovered
• QTE – What is my TRUE bearing from you or from …(call sign)
• QTF – Will you give me the position of my station according to the bearings taken by the D/F stations which you control
• QTG – Will you send two dashes of ten seconds each followed by your call sign repeated … times on … kHz/MHz
• QTH – What is your position in latitude and longitude (or according to any other indication)
• QTHR – Officially unrecognized code, but adopted by the RSGB to mean Name and address correct in the UK Call Book
• QTI – What is your TRUE track
• QTJ – What is your speed
• QTK – What is the speed of your aircraft in relation to the earth’s surface
• QTL – What is you TRUE heading
• QTM – What is your MAGNETIC heading
• QTN – At what time did you depart from …(place)
• QTO – Are you airborne or Have you left dock/port
• QTP – Are you going to alight/land or Are you going to enter dock/port
• QTQ – Can you communicate with my station by means of the international code of signals
• QTR – What is the correct time
• QTS – Will you send your call sign for tuning purposes or frequency measurement
• QTT – The identification signal which follows is superimposed on another transmission
• QTU – What are the hours during which your station is open
• QTV – Shall I stand guard for you on the frequency of …kHz/MHz
• QTW – What is the condition of survivors
• QTX – Will you keep your station open for further communication with me
• QTY – Are you proceeding to the position of the incident and, if so, when do you expect to arrive
• QTZ -Are you continuing the search