BECAUSE WE'RE ALL ABOUT RADIO
Commonly-Used DX Abbreviations
Abbreviation | Meaning |
|---|---|
// | Parallel |
73 | Best regards |
AA | Arabic |
AC | Adult Contemporary music |
AC/EZL | Light adult contemporary |
AC/OLD | Adult contemporary oldies |
AGC | Automatic Gain Control |
AM | Amplitude Modulation |
ANF | Auto Notch Filter |
ANNCR | Announcer |
AOR | Album Oriented Rock |
ATNO | All-Time New One |
Ad | Advertisement/Commercial |
Af | Africa |
As | Asia |
Att | Attenuation |
BCB | BroadCast Band |
BIZ | Business |
BOH | Bottom-of-the-Hour |
BW | Bandwidth |
Balun | BALanced to UNbalanced |
Beach | Beach/surf oldies |
Bev | Beverage antenna |
C&W | Country and Western music |
CA | Central America |
CC | Chinese |
CCR | Contemporary Christian |
CDT | Central Daylight Time |
CH | Critical Hour |
CHR | Top 40 contemporary hits |
CLA | Classical music |
CLR | Classic Rock music |
CST | Central Standard Time |
CW | Continuous wave/morse code |
CX | Conditions |
Cls | Callsign/Call letters |
Cmrcl | Commercial/advertisement |
DAB | Digital Audio Broadcast |
DSP | Digital Signal Processing |
DX | Distance/Distant |
DXpedition | Dx Expedition |
EDT | Eastern Daylight Time |
EE | English |
ERP | Effective Radiated Power |
EST | Eastern Standard Time |
ETH | Ethnic programming |
EZL | Easy listening |
Eu | Europe |
FARM | Agricultural programming |
FCC | Federal Communications Commission |
FF | French |
FM | Frequency Modulation |
Freq | Frequency |
GG | German |
GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
GOS | Gospel/Southern Gospel programming |
GRG | Global Radio Guide |
HAAT | Height Above Average Terrain |
HF | High Frequency |
Het | Heterodyne |
Hz | Hertz |
ID | Identification |
JAZZ | Jazz music |
JJ | Japanese |
KID | All children-oriented programming |
KK | Korean |
LA | Latin America |
LPFM | Low Power FM |
LSB | Lower sideband |
LSR | Local Sunrise Time |
LSS | Local Sunset Time |
LW | Longwave |
MDT | Mountain Daylight Time |
MHz | Megahertz |
MST | Mountain Standard Time |
MUF | Maximum Usable Frequency |
MW | Megawatt |
MW/mw | Mediumwave |
Ms | Meteor Scatter |
Mx | Music |
NAGE | New age music |
NB | Noise blanker |
NOS | Nostalgic programming |
NWS/NX | News |
Na | North America |
OLD | Oldies programming |
Oc | Oceana |
PDT | Pacific Daylight Time |
PP | Portuguese |
PSA | Public Service Announcement |
PSRA | Pre-Sunrise Service Authorization |
PSSA | Post-Sunset Service Authorization |
PST | Pacific Standard Time |
PX | Program/programming |
QRM | Manmade interference |
QRN | Naturally occurring interference |
QSL | I confirm receipt/reception |
QTH | Location |
RAP | Rap and/or hip-hop |
RDS | Radio Data System |
REL | Religious programming |
REL/AC | Contemporary Christian music |
RF | Radio Frequency |
ROCK | rock and roll music |
ROCK/OLD | “classic hits” rock |
ROK | Heavy metal music |
RR | Russian |
Rx/RX | Receive/Receive |
SDR | Software-Defined Radio/Receiver |
SINPO | Strength, Interference, Noise, Propagation, Overall |
SIO | Strength, Interference, Overall |
SPT | Sports programming |
SQL | Squelch |
SS | Spanish |
SSB | Single sideband |
SW | Shortwave |
SWL | Shortwave Listener |
SWLing | Shortwave Listening |
TC | Time Check/Time Announcement |
TEP | Transequatorial Propagation |
TIS | Traveler’s Information Station |
TLK | Talk programming |
TOH | Top-of-the-Hour |
TVI | ∫Television Interference |
Tejano | EE/SS music and talk |
Tent | Tentative |
Tourist | Traveler’s information |
Tropo | Tropospheric Ducting |
UC | Urban Contemporary |
UHF | Ultra High Frequency |
UNID | Unidentified |
USB | Upper sideband |
UTC | Coordinated Universal Time |
VAR | Variety, could be many different things! |
VHF | Very High Frequency |
WRTH | World Radio/TV Handbook |
Wx | Weather |
dB | Decibel |
kHz | Kilohertz |
kW | Kilowatt |
v/s | Veri signer |
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