Ham Radio Q Codes

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