[GreenKeys] Q and Z Signals

[John Parker]

If anyone wants to brush up on their Q and Z signals.  O.K., I'm an old 
U.S. Navy Radioman.  I found this web site in which the military has posted 
the entire contents of Allied Communications Publication, ACP-131, 
COMMUNICATION INSTRUCTIONS, OPERATING SIGNALS.

For those of you who don't remember, this publication , is an UNCLASSIFIED 
document.

http://www.dtic.mil/jcs/j6/cceb/acps/Acp131.pdf


When I was new to teletype circuits and stationed onboard the USS OGDEN 
(LPD-5), we were enroute to the South China Sea, leaving the 
Philippines.  We had a TTY training circuit up with an AirCraft Carrier as 
Net Control.

At that time, I could type 100wpm and thought I was hot stuff.  Well, some 
slow operator got on the circuit and his typing was sooooo slow, I mean 
watching paint dry was faster, that the circuit would drop off the air.  He 
was continually keying his transmitter, phasing the old KW-7 and then 
trying to type.

I got so tired of this that I sent the operator a ZBM-2.  Man, did I learn 
my lesson fast.  The net controlling station came back and told me to 
basically shut the *uck up and watch what I was saying.  Afterall, this was 
a training ckt.


ZBM Place...on watch on this frequency.
1) A qualified speed key operator;
2) A competent operator.


Anyway, If you would like to download the pub, it's in pdf format.  take 
just a few seconds.

Cheers,

John Parker, RMCS(SS) USN (Ret), KD7KFT




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