My father used qsl when talking on the radio when he worked for the light company

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On 8/15/16 5:35 PM, mnansley15@gmail.com wrote:

My father used qsl when talking on the radio when he worked for the light company

As a question, it's kind of the 2 way radio version of the cellphone
"Can You Hear Me Now"

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QSL_card for more info.

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On Friday, January 31, 1997 at 4:00:00 PM UTC+8, D.S. Fenstermacher wrote:

Lately I have been hearing the local police respond with the term QSL. It appears that the response is just another way of answering in the affirmative. But what does it mean?

Scott

QSL? and QSL originate from CW (morse code) and basically mean either "are you listening", "I am listening" or "I heard". It really has no place on ham, police or any other radio, but I suppose people appropriated it to sound more cool.

My guess as to why the letters were selected is that they form a distinct pattern of short and long beeps that makes it easy to distinguish when a message ends or begins - my basis for this is the year I spent in the army listening to morse code and that
even 20 years later, the sound of "QSL" morsed out is engrained into my brain even better than the 3 short, 2 long 3 short that Nokie phones used to beep out when you got an SMS message (3 short is an "S", 2 long is an "M" in morse)

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On 08/21/2018 06:47 AM, edvard@sbsbcc.com wrote:

It really has no place on ham, police or any other radio, but I suppose people appropriated it to sound more cool.

Where was QSL (mis)appropriated from ff it has no place in ham, police,
or any other radio?

Was it an early telegraph short hand?

Where did the other Q codes originate from?



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edvard@sbsbcc.com wrote:

On Friday, January 31, 1997 at 4:00:00 PM UTC+8, D.S. Fenstermacher wrote:

Lately I have been hearing the local police respond with the term QSL. It
appears that the response is just another way of answering in the
affirmative. But what does it mean?


Scott

QSL? and QSL originate from CW (morse code) and basically mean either "are you listening", "I am listening" or "I heard". It really has no place on ham, police or any other radio, but I suppose people appropriated it to sound more cool.

My guess as to why the letters were selected is that they form a distinct pattern of short and long beeps that makes it easy to distinguish when a message ends or begins - my basis for this is the year I spent in the army listening to morse code and

that even 20 years later, the sound of "QSL" morsed out is engrained into my brain even better than the 3 short, 2 long 3 short that Nokie phones used to beep out when you got an SMS message (3 short is an "S", 2 long is an "M" in morse)


My understanding is that it is basically the same as "roger" which means
"I hear you and understand". Although it may be more like "copy" which
just means that "I hear you". QSL and the long list of Q codes are mostly
used in CW communication on the amateur bands.

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On Friday, January 31, 1997 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, D.S. Fenstermacher wrote:

Lately I have been hearing the local police respond with the term QSL. It appears that the response is just another way of answering in the affirmative. But what does it mean?

Scott

Many years ago I was a Corrections Officer with Dade County Florida. The Dade county Public Safety Department uses the Q code and not the 10 code as almost all other police agencies do. As far as I know Dade County is the only police Department that uses
the Q code which comes from HAM radio operators. It makes it tough for the Florida Highway Patrol. They have to know both and switch back and forth.

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On Friday, November 30, 2018 at 1:30:02 PM UTC-5, kurt...@yahoo.com wrote:

"As far as I know Dade County is the only police Department that uses the Q code which comes from HAM radio operators."

Yes, ham operators use Q codes. No, Q codes do not come from ham radio. The Q codes were devised to allow European land-line telegraphers who did not necessarily speak the same language to communicate procedural matters, such as "Do you accept these
charges?", "Yes, I accept these charges." They were defined by the International Telegraph Union.

When radiotelegraphy was invented, the same codes were used for the same purposes, as well as newly devised codes pertaining only to radio. "Shall I decrease transmitter power?", "Yes, decrease transmitter power."

Once amateur radio became established, Q codes were used in part for the same purposes as in commercial radio and wired telegraphy, in part to appear professional.

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On Friday, January 31, 1997 at 4:00:00 PM UTC+8, D.S. Fenstermacher wrote:

Lately I have been hearing the local police respond with the term QSL. It appears that the response is just another way of answering in the affirmative. But what does it mean?

Scott

QSL! = Quiet Silly Looser!
Affirmative/10-4/Rodger/OK

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