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51 Wishes

72 Peace and friendship

73 Best regards

88 Love and Kisses

AA All After

AAA Autantication Authorization Accounting protocol PC Network

AAC Advanced Audio Coding

AATU Automatic Antenna Tuner Unit

AB All Before

ABEND Abnormal END

ABT About

AC Alternate Current CA Corrente Alternata

ACARS Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System Aeronautica

ACC Area Control Center Aeronautica

ACC ACCessory socket

ACE High Allied Command Europe Fixed service NATO radiocommunications - In disuso

ACF Auto Correlation Function

ACK Acknowledge

ACW AntiClockWise

AD Analogic Device

AD Amministratore Delegato

AD Anno Domini

ADC Analogic to Digital Converter



ADF Automatic Direction Finder

ADIF Amateur Data Interchange Format

ADS Address

ADSB Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast Aeronautica

ADSL Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line

ADSP Adaptive Digital Signal Processing

AES Aircraft Earth Stations Aeronautica

AF Audio Frequency

AFB Air Force Base

AFC Automatic Frequency Control

AFPO Air Force Post Office

AFRS American Forces Radio Services

AFS Aeronautical Fixed Service

AFS Alternative Frequency Signalling

AFS Automatic Frequency Search

AFSK Audio Frequency Shift Keying

AFTN Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network

AGC Automatic Gain Control

AGCOM Autorita' per le Garanzie nelle COMunicazioni

AGN Again

AGP Accelerated Graphics Port

AGU American Geophysical Union

AHCI Advanced Host Controller Interface



AIR Associazione Italiana Radioascolto http://www.air-radio.it/

AIRAC Aeronautical Information Regulation And Control Aeronautica

AIRE Associazione Italiana Radio d'Epoca

AIREP meteorogical information by an AIRcraft REPort Aeronautica

AIRMET AIRman's METeorological information Aeronautica

AIS Automatic Identification System SIA - Marina

ALC Automatic Level Control

ALE Automatic Link Establishment

ALF Accurate positioning by Low Frequency

ALIS Automatic Link set-up Simplex ARQ

AM Aeronautica Militare Italia - Aeronautica

AM Ante Meridiem

AM Amplitude Modulation

AMD Advanced Micro Devices

AM-N Amplitude Modulation-Narrow

AMP Amplifier

AMS Aeronautical Mobile Service Aeronautica

AMS Auto Mode Select

AM-S Amplitude Modulation Said

AM-SAH Amplitude Modulation Said High

AM-SAL Amplitude Modulation Said Low

AMSS Aeronautical Mobile Satellite Service Aeronautica

AMTOR AMateur Teleprinting Over Radio

http://www.air-radio.it/



AMVER Automated Mutual assistance VEssel Rescue system Marina

AM-W Amplitude Modulation-Wide

ANA Associazione Nazionale Alpini

ANAC Autorita' Nazionale Anti Corruzione

ANC Associazione Nazionale Carabinieri

ANC Active Noise Canceller

ANDVT Advanced Narrowband Digital Voice Terminal

ANGET Associazione Nazionale Genio E Trasmissioni

ANR Active Noise Reduction

ANSA Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata

ANSI American National Standards Institute

ANT Antenna

APF Audio Peaking Filter

API Application Programming Interface

APO Army Post Office

APP APPlication mobile

APR Aeromobile a Pilotaggio Remoto Aeronautica - Drone - PA

APRS Automatic Packet Reporting System

APT Automatic Picture Transmission Satelliti

APTR Automatic Progressive Turning Ratio

APU Auxiliary Power Unit

ARDF Amateur Radio Direction Finding

ARGOS Worldwide tracking and environmrntal monitoring by satellite



ARI Associazione Radioamatori Italiani

ARI-RE Associazione Radioamatori Italiani-Radiocomunicazioni Emergenza

ARISS Amateur Radio on the International Space Station

ARMI Associazione Radioamatori Marinai Ittaliani

ARPA Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente

ARQ Automatic Repeat reQuest

ARRL American Radio Relay League

ASC Automatic Sensitivity Control

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASK Amplitude Shift Keying

ASS Amateur Satellite Service

AST American Standard Time

ATA Advanced Technology Attachment IDE

ATA Antarctic country IDE

ATC Air Traffic Control Aeronautica

ATIS Automatic Terminal Information Service

ATIS Automatic Transmitter Identification System

ATM Aircraft Traffic Management Aeronautica

ATM Asinchronous Transfer Mode Aeronautica

ATN Aeronautical Telecommunication Network Aeronautica

ATTN ATTeNuator

ATU Antenna Tuner Unit

ATV Amateur TeleVision



ATV Analogical TeleVision

AU Audio Unit

AUSCANNZUKUS Australia Canada Nuova Zelanda UnitedKingdom UnitedStates Piu' noto come Echelon o Five Eyes

AUTOSPEC AUTOmatic Single Path Error Correcting digital data transmission system

AVC Automatic Volum Control

AWACS Airborne Warfare And Control System Aeronautica

AWS Air Weather Service Aeronautica

BA British Army

BALUN Balanced Unbalanced

BAS British Antarctic Survay

BASMS Basic Automated Spectrum Management System

BBC British Broadcast Corporation

BBS Bullettin Board System

BC BroadCast

BCD Binary Coded Decimal

BCI BroadCasting Interference

BCL BroadCast Listener

BDU Basic Data Unit

BER Bit Error Rate

BF Bassa Frequenza

BFO Beat Frequency Oscillator

BIC Bank Identifier Codes Banche

BIIS Bynary Interchange of Information and Signaling



BIOS Basic Input Output System

BIPM Bureau International des Poids et des Mesures

BITE Built In Testing Equipement

BJT Bipolar Junction Transistor

BLOS Below Line Of Sight Sotto la linea dell'orizzonte

BMW Bayerische Motoren Werke

BN all BetweeN

BNC Bayonet Neill Concelman Connettori (Dai nomi degli inventori)

BOSS Bureau Of State Security RSA - Republlic of South Africa

BP Battery Pack

BPSK Binary Phase Shift Keying

BPSM Binary Phase Shift Modulation

BT British Telecom

BTU British Thermal Unit

BUG Semi Automatic key

BUOY Report of BUOY Observations Marina (Boe)

BW Band Width

BWA Broadband Wireless Access

C Correct

CA Corrente Alternata

CAD Computer Aided Design

CAF Controllo Automatico di Frequenza

CALSEL aeronautical radio incorporated SELective CALling system Aeronautica



CALTECH California Institute of Technology

CAP Civil Air Patrol Aeronautica

CAP Codice di Avviamento Postale

CAPE Connective Available Potential Energy

CAT Computer Aided Tuning

CAV Controllo Automatico di Volume

CAVOK Ceiling And Visibility OK Typical in METAR

CB Citizien's Band

CBA CallBook Address

CC Corrente Continua

CCCP URSS - USSR URSS - USSR

CCD Charge Coupled Device DAC

CCF Cross Correlation Function

CCIR Comite Consultatif International pour la Radio

CCITT Comite Consultatif International pour Telegraph et Telephone

CCS Centro Coordinamento Soccorsi

CCW CounterClockWise

CCW Coherent Continous Wave

CD Compact Disc

CD Civil Defense

CD Consiglio Direttivo

CDN Consiglio Direttivo Nazionale

CDR Comitato Di Redazione



CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory

CDU Control Display Unit

CE Certificazione del rispetto normative Europee

CEE Comunita' Economica Europea

CEI Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano

CELP Code Excited Linear Prediction

CEPT Conferenza Europea delle Poste e delle Telecomunicazioni

CERN Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire

CEST Central Europe Solar Time UTC+2h (Ora legale)

CET Central Europe Time UTC+1h (Ora solare)

CF I ConFirm

CF Central Frequency

CF Canadian Forces

CFARS Canadian Forces Auxiliary Radio System

CFL Compact Fluorescent Lamp

CFM ConFfirM

CFM Cubical Feet per Minute

CGE Compagnia Generale di Elettricita'

CGIS Coast Guard Investigative Service USA

CIA Central Intelligence Agency USA

CIN Control International Number

CIRM Centro Italiano Radio Medico Marina

CIS Commonwealth of Independent States



CISAF Commonwealth of Independent States Air Force

CISAR Centro Italiano Sperimentazione ed Attivita' Radiantistiche

CISN Commonwealth of Independent States Navy

CI-V Communication Interface icom

CJU Canary Jail Umbrella Antenna

CLG CaLlinG

CMOS Complementary Metal-Oxyde Semiconductor

CMP Centro di Meccanizzazione Postale

CMRR Common Mode Rejection Ratio

CNC Computer Numeric Control

CNCER Centro Nazionale Controllo Emissioni Radioelettriche

CNES Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales

CNN Cable News Network

CNR Centro Nazionale Ricerche

CNS Communications Navigation Surveillance Marina

COA Comando Operazioni Aeree Italia - Aeronautica

CODAN digital selective calling system

CODAR Coastal Ocean Detection And Ranging NOAA

CODEC Coder DECoder

CODFM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing OFDM

COFDM Coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex

COM Centro Operativo Misto

CONELRAD CONtrol of ELectromagnetic RADiation In Disuso



COR Carrier Operated Relay

COSPAS Cosmichheskaya Sistyema Poiska Avriynikh Sudov Canada Francia USA Russia

COTA Carabinieri On The Air Associazione Radioamatori Carabinieri

CPU Central Processing Unit

CQ General call to all stations

CR Cifra di Rumore

CRC Cyclic Redundancy Check Error Detecting Code

CRI Color Rendering Index

CRI Croce Rossa Italiana

CRS Centro Ricerche Sismologiche

CRT Cathode Ray Tube

CS Collegio Sindacale

CS Call Sign

CS Circuito Stampato

CSN Collegio Sindacale Nazionale

CSO Componenti e Strutture Operative di protezione civile

CTCSS Continous Tone Coded Squelch System

CTR Common Technical Regulation

CU See you

CUL See you later

CUZ Because

CW Continuous Wave

CW ClockWise



CWI Continous Wave Interference

DAB Digital Audio Broadcasting

DAC Digital to Analogic Converter

DAID Dash After IDentification Rafiofari

DAP Digital Audio Player

DAT Digital Audio Tape In Disuso

DAT Digital Amateur Television

DB Data Base

DBPSK Differential Bi Phase Shift Keying

DBS Direct Broadcasting Satellite

DC Direct Current CC Corrente Continua

DCIS Defense Criminal Investigative Service USA

DDP Differenza Di Potenziale

DDS Direct Digital Synthesis

DE From

DECT Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunication

DF Dial Frequency

DFT Discrete Fourier Transform algoritm

DGPS Differential Global Positioning System

DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

DIA Denuncia di Inizio Attivita' in edilizia

DIA Direzione Investigativa Antimafia

DIA Defense Intelligence Agency USA



DIAC DIode for Alternating Current

DICOMAC Direzione COMAndo e Controllo

DIG DIGital data transmission

DIN Deutsche Industrie Norm

DL Dummy Load

DLA Delta Loop Antenna

DLI Diploma Laghi Italiani

DLL Dynamic Link Library

DLS Dynamic Label Segments

DMB Digital Media Broadcasting

DMB-VR Digital Media Broadcasting-Visual Radio

DME Distance Mesurement Equipment Aeronautica

DMR Digital Mobile Radio

DNA DesossiriboNucleic Acid

DNF Did Not Finish

DNS Did Not Start

DNS Domain Name System

DOP Dizionario di Ortografia e Pronuncia Edizioni RAI

DOS Disk Operating System

DOSC Department Of State Communications

DPC Dipartimento Protezione Civile

DPR Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica

DPSM Differential Phase Shift Modulation



DQPSK Differential Quadrature Phase Shift Keying D4-PSK

DR Dinamic Range

DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memeory

DRC Dynamic Range Control

DRM Digital Radio Mondiale

DRO Digital Read Out

DRO Dielectric Resonator Oscillator

DRONE Pilotless Aircraft Aeronautica - APR - PA

DSB Double Side Band

DSC Digital Selective Calling GMDSS network - Variante del SITOR-B

DSL Digital Subscriber Line

DSP Digital Signal Processing

DSS Decision Support System

DSSS Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

D-STAR Digital Smart Tecnologies for Amateur Radio

DT Deutsche Telekom

DTG Date Time Group

DTMF Dual Tone Multi Frequency

DTT Digital Terrestrial TeleVision TDT

DTT Data Transfer Type

DUPE this is a DUPlicate mEssage

DVB Digital Video Broadcasting

DVB Digital Video Broadcasting



DVB-H Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld

DVB-S2 Digital Video Broadcasting Satellite Second Generation

DVB-T Digital Video Broadcasting Television

DVD Digital Versatile Disc

DW Deutsche Welle

DWT DeadWeight Tonnage

DX Distant

DXCC DX Century Club

E E E Error signal

EAM Emergency Action Message

EAS Electronic Article Surveillance

EAT Extra Alta Tensione

EATS Event Activate Tracking System

EBU Eoropean Broadcasting Union

ECC Electronic Communications Committee

ECG ElettroCardioGramma

ECMWF European Center for Medium range Weather Forecast

ECSS Exalted Carrier Selectable Sideband

ECTRA European Committee for Telecommunications Regulatory Affairs

EDRS European Data Relay System

EDXC European DX Council

EEG ElettroEncefaloGrafia

EFHW End Fed Half Wave Antenna



EGO European Gravitational Observatory

EHF Extreme High Frequency

EI Esercito Italiano

EIAR Ente Italiano Audizioni Radio

EIBI EIke BIerwirth's comprehensive schedules

EIRP Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power Antenna

ELF Extreme Low Frequency

ELT Emergency Location Transmitter COSPAS/SARSAT

E-MAIL Electronic MAIL

EMC ElectroMagnetic Compatibility

EME Earth Moon Earth

EMF ElectroMagnetic Field

EMI ElectroMagnetic Interference filter

EMP ElectroMagnetic Pulse

EMRP Effective Monopole Radiated Power Antenna

ENAC Ente Nazionale per l'Aviazione Civile Aeronautica

ENAV Ente Nazionale Assistenza Volo Aeronautica

ENC Electronic Nautical Chart

ENEL Ente Nazionale Energia eLettrica

ENIGMA European Numbers Information Gathering and Monitoring Association

ENOB Effective Number Of Bits

ENs European Norms

EO Earth Oservation satellite



EOM End Of Message

EPG Electronic Programme Guide

EPIRB Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons COSPAS/SARSAT

EPROM Erase Programmable Read Only Memory

ERC European Radiocommunications Committee

ERMES Enhanced Radio MEssaging System

ERMP Effective Monopole Radiated Power

ERO European Radiocommunications Office

ERP Effective Radiated Power Antenna

ES And

ES Electrical Sporadic cloud

ESA European Space Agency

ESATA External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

ESD ElectroStatic Discharge

ESOC European Spatial Operation Center

ESOMPS Earth Stations On Mobile Platforms

ESV Earth Stations on board Vessels

ET Extra Terrestrial

ETA Estimated Time of Arrival

ETACS Enhanced Total Access Communication System Telefonia In disuso

ETO European Telecommunications Office

ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Insitute

EUR EURo



EUV Extreme Ultra Violet Light

EVA Extra Vehicular Activity ISS

FAA Federal Aviation Administration USA

FAC Fast Access Channel

FADEC Full Authority Digital Engine Control

FAF French Air Force

FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions

FAX teleFAX

FB Fine Business

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation USA

FCC Federal Communications Commission

FCS Frame Check Sequence

FCST ForeCaST

FD Filo Diffusione In disuso

FDM Frequency Division Multiplex

FDO Forma D'Onda

FEC Forward Error Correction digital data transmission system

FEM Forza Elettro Motrice

FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency USA

FER For

FESN Friuli Experimental Seismic Network

FET Field Effect Transistor



FFT Fast Fourier Transform algoritm

FH Fuse Holder

FHSS Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum

FL Flight Level Aeronautica

FLEX FlEXible wide area paging protocol

FM Frequency Modulation

FM FroM

FMC Flight Management Computer Aeronautica

FM-N Frequency Modulation-Narrow

FMS Flight Management System Aeronautica

FM-W Frequency Modulation-Wide

FOIA Freedom Of Information Act

FOT Frequency of Optimum Transmission Propagazione

FOV Field Of View

FPGA Field Programmable Gate Array

FREQ FREQuency

FS Foreign Service

FSF Free Software Foundation

FSK Frequency Shift Keying

FTP File Transfer Protocol

FVG Friuli Venezia Giulia

FWS Fixed Wireless Systems

FYI For Your Information



GA Go Ahead (You can transmit)

GBC Gian Bruto Castelfranchi

GE General Electric

GE Good Evening

GFSK Gaussian filtered Frequency Shift Keying

GIGN Groupe d'Intervention de la Gendarmerie Nationale

GIRF Gruppo Italiano Radioamatori Ferrovieri

GIS Gruppi di Intervento Speciale Carabinieri

GM Good Morning

GmbH Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung Societa' a garanzia limitata

GMDSS Global Maritme Distress and Safety System (DSC - ATIS) Marina

GMSK Gaussian filtered Minimum Shift Keying

GMT Greenwich Mean Time UTC

GND GrouND terminal

GNSS Global Navigation Satellite Systems

GNSSL Global Navigation Satellite System Listener

GNU Gnu's Not Unix Sistema Operativo Free

GP Ground Plane Antenne

GPL General Public License

GPO General Post Office

GPR/WPR Ground Probing Radar/Wall Probing Radar

GPS Global Positioning System

GRAD Gruppo RAdioamatori Disabili



GRT Gross Register Tonnage

GRUNDIG Max GRUNDIG

GSM GlobalSystem for Mobile communications

GSM-R GlobalSystem for Mobile communications-Railway Ferrovia

GTS Global Telecommunication System

GUD GooD

GUI Graphical User Interface

GW Ground Wave Onda di superfice

GWEN Ground Wave Emergency Network

GW-FSK Global Wireless-FSK

GW-PSK Global Wireless-PSK

HAARP High frequency Active Auroral Research Program

HAM Amateur Radio

HAPS High Altitude Platform Stations

HC-ARQ Haegelin Cryptos-ARQ

HCO Heterodyne Crystal Oscillator

HD High Definition

HD Hard Disc

HDLC High level Data Link Control

HDTV High Definition TeleVision

HEST High Eirp Satellite Terminals

HF High Frequency

HFCC High Frequency Coordination Conference



HFDL High Frequency Data Link

HF-FAX High Frequency-Fax WE-FAX

HFNPDU High Frequency Network Protocol Data Unit

HFRC High Frequency Radio Club

HID Human Interface Device

HIFI High Fidelity Audio

HIHI Laughter

HLA Horizontal Loop Antenna

HOTAS Hands On Throttle And Stick Aircraft Controller

HP Hewlett Packard company Bill Hewlett & David Packard

HPF High Pass Filter

HR HeRe

HRT Hostage Rescue Team

HS Home Service

HSF Human Space Flight

HSS Ham Station System

HST High Speed Telegraphy

HTML HyperText Markup Language

HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

HTTPS Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over Secure socket layer

HV High Voltage

HV HaVe

IA Italian Army



IAF Italian Air Force

IAP Instrumental Approach Procedures Aeronautica

IARU International Amateur Radio Union

IAT International Atomic Time

IATA International Air Transport Association

IBA Independent Broadcasting Authority United Kingdom

IBAN International Bank Account Number Banche

IBF Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale Galileo Ferraris - Torino Stazione per segnali di tempo e frequenza campione

IBM International Business Machine

IBOC In Band On Channel

IC Cathode Current

IC Integrated Circuit

ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization

ICE International Commission Electronic

ICP-MS Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross

IDE Integrated Developement Enviroment

IDT InterDigital Transducers

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer

IF Intermediate Frequency

IFF Identification Friend or Foe

IFL International Frequency List

IFOR International FORce Aeronautica



IFR Instrument Flight Rules Aeronautica

IFRB International Frequency Registration Board Aeronautica

IGFET Insulated Gate Field Effect

ILS Instrumental Landing System Aeronautica

IMD Inter Modulation Distorsion

IMHO In My Humble Opinion

IMO International Maritime Organization Marina

IMQ Istituto italiano del Marchio di Qualita'

IMRCC Italian Maritime Rescue Coordination Center Marina

IMS International Monitoring Service

IMT International Mobile Telecommunications

INFN Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare

INMARSAT International MARitime SATellite Marina

INOGS Istituto Nazionale Oeceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale

INORC Italian Naval Old Rhythmers Club

INRI Iesus Nazarenus Rex Ludaeorum

INS Inertial Navigation System

INSPIRE Interactive Space Phisics Ionospheric Radio Experiments

INTERNET INTERnational NETwork

INTERPOL INTERnational POLice

IOC Index Of Cooperation Fax

IOM International Organization for Migration

IONCAP IONospheric Communications Analysis Prediction Propagazione



IOTA Islands On The Air

IP Internet Protocol

IPA International Phonetic Alphabet

IPA International Phonetic Association

IPR Intellectual Property Right

IR Infra Red

IRA International Reference Alphabet

IRA Irish Republican Army In disuso

IRC International Replay Coupon

IRC International Red Cross

IRLP Internet Radio Linking Project

IRQ Interrupt ReQuest

IS Islamic State

ISA Industry Standard Architecture

ISB Independent Side Band (LSB & USB)

ISCTI Istituto Superiore delle Comunicazioni e delle Tecnologie dell'Informazione

ISD Inverted Scanning Direction

ISDN Integrated Services Digital Network

ISDS International Serial Data System

ISIS Islamic State of Iraq and Syria In disuso

ISO International Standardization Organization

ISO/OSI International Standardization Organization / Open Systems Interconnection

ISP Initial Synchronization Preamble



ISPRA Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale

ISS International Space Station

ISSN International Standard Serial Number

ITA International Telegraph Alphabet

ITI Istituto Tecnico Industriale

ITIS Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale

ITU International Telecommunication Union

ITU-R International Telecommunication Union_Radiocommunication sector

IVA Intra Vehicular Activiti ISS

JATO Jet Assisted Take-Off aeronautica

JOTA world Jamboree On The Air

JRC Japan Radio Corporation

JVM Java Virtual Machine

K Please transmit

KFOR Kosovo FORce

KGB Komitet Gosudarstvennoj Bezopasnosti URSS

KNOTS Nautical miles per hour

KTS Nautical miles per hour

LAN Local Area Network PC Network

LASER Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation

LBD Low Band Dxing

LC Inductor Capacitor Network

LCD Liquid Cristal Display



LCN Logical Channel Number

LCR Inductans Capacitance Resistance

LE Low Energy

LED Light Effect Diode

LEM Lunar Excursion Module

LEO Low Earth Orbit

LEST Law Eirp Satellite Terminals

LF Low Frequency

LFAA Low Frequency Aperture Array

LHC Large Hadron Collider

LHCP Left Hand Circularly Polarized

LHCP Large Hadron Collider Phisics

LID Poor operator

LIDAR Laser Imaging Detection And Ranging

LIGO Laser Inrerferometer Gravitational wave Observatory

LNA Low Noise Amplifier

LNB Low Noise Block converter

LO Local Oscillator

LOFAR LOw Frequency ARray

LOL Laughing Out of Laughs

LORAN LOng RAnge Navigation system LORAN-C

LOS Line Of Sight A vista

LOWFERS LOW Frequency Experimental Radio Station



LP Long Playing Dischi 33 giri in vinile

LPAM Low Power AM

LPD Low Power Devices Apparati Radio a bassa potenza di emissione

LPDU Link Protocol Data Unit

LPF Low Pass Filter

LPFM Low Power FM radio

LPM Lines Per Minute Fax

LQA Link Quality Analisys

LSB Lower Side Band

LT Local Time

LUF Lowest Usable Frequency Propagazione

LVD Low Voltage Directive

LVDJ Lu Vevi Dite Jo! :-)

LW Long Waves

M2M Machine To Machine

MAC Address Media Access Control Address PC

MAF Missionary Aviation Fellowship

MAFOR MAritime FORecast for shipping

MANPACK Progettato per essere portato da una sola persona Es: Manpack Radio

MAR MARitime

MARS Military Auxiliary Radio System

MAYDAY Dal francese: m'aider - Venite ad aiutarmi

MB Mother Board



mC Micro Controller

MCA Mobile Communications services on Aircraft Aeronautica

MCDU Multifunction Control Display Unit

MCM Metri Cubi per Minuto

MCR Maximum CRuise thrust Aeronautica

MCV Mobile Communications services on board Vessels Marina

MCVFT Multy Channel Voice Frequency Telegraphy system Marina

MCW Modulated Continous Wave

MDS Minimum Discernible Signal

MEPA Mercato Elettronico della Pubblica Amministrazione

MESFET MEtal Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor

METAR METeorogical Air Report Aeronautica

METAR-TAF METeorogical Air Report-Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts Aeronautica

MF Media Frequenza

MF Medium Frequency

MF Modulazione di Frequenza

MFCN Mobile Fixed Communications Network

MFCN SDL Mobile Fixed Communications Network Supplemental Down Link

MFSK Multiple Frequency Shift Keying GSM

MG Microphone Gain

MI5 Military Intelligence section 5 Gran Bretagna

MIC MIcrophone Connector

MID Maritime Identification Digits Marina



MIL MILitary

MILCOMMS MILitary COMMunicationS

MILS MILliampereS

MISE MInistero dello Sviluppo Economico

MIT Massachussetts Institute of Technology

MIUR Ministero dell' Istruzione dell'Universita' e della Ricerca

MK Break

MLB Magnetic Longwire Balun

MLC Multy Level Coding

MLS Microwave Landing System Aeronautica

MMCR Multi Mode Communication Receiver

MMDS Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service (Wireless Cable)

MMIC Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit

MMS Maritime Mobile Service Marina

MMSI Maritime Mobile Service Identity Marina

MODEM Modulator Demodulator

MoMA Museum of Modern Art

MOS Metal-Oxyde Semiconductor

MOSFET Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor

MOSSAD Ha-Mossad le-Modi'in ule-Tafkidim Meyuchadim Israele - Istituto per l'intelligence e servizi speciali - (Mossad=istituto)

MOX Manual transmit switch pOsition

MP Military Polyce corps USA

MPDU Media access Protocol Data Unit



MPEG-n Moving Picture Experts Group

MPF Mid Pass Filter

MPH Miles Per Hour

MRSC Maritime Rescue Sub Center Marina

MSA Maritime Safety Agency

MSC Main Service Channel

MS-DOS MicroSoft - Disk Operating System

MSF Medicins Sans Frontiers

MSI Maritime Safety Information

MSK Minimun Shift Keying

MSK Moscow Standard time

MSL Mean Sea Level

MSO Mixed Signal Oscilloscope

MTAC navy Multiple Threat Alert Center USA

MTFT Magnetic Transformer For Transmission

MTOW Maximum Take Off Weight Aeronautica

MUF Maximum Usable Frequency Propagazione

MUX MUltipleXer tv

MVDS Multipoint Video Distribution System

MW Medium Waves

MWARA Major World Air Routes Area HF Aero radio communications

MWS Multimedia Wireless System

NACK Not ACKnowledge



NADIB NAarrow band DIgital Broadcasting

NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration USA

NATO North Atlantic Traty Organization

NAVAID NAVigation AID

NAVTEX NAVigational TEXt messages Marina

NB Noise Blanker

NB Narrow Band

NBDPT Narrow Band Direct Printing Telegraphy

NBFM Narrow Band FM

NCIS Naval Criminal Investigative Service USSS

NCO Numerically Controlled Oscillator

NDB Non Directional Beacon

NEMP Nuclear ElectroMagnetic Pulse

NET NETwork

NF Noise Figure

NFC Near Communication Field

NFM Narrow FM

NGO Non Govermmental Organization

NiCd Nickel Cadmio Battery

NIL Nothing

NiMH Nickel Metal Hidryde Battery

NIST National Institute of Standards and Technologies United States

NLMOC Naval atLantic Meteorology and Oceanography Center



NMC National Meteorological Center

NMEA National Marine Electronics Associations

NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOCS Nucleo Operativo Centrale Sicurezza Polizia di Stato

NOGAPS Navy Operational Global Athmosferics Prediction System

NORAD North American Aerospace Defense command

NOTAM Notice To AirMen

NPO Negative Positive Zero Condenser

NPR Noise Power Ratio

NR Noise Reduction

NR NumbeR

NSF National Science Foundation USA

NSML Non Symmetric Magnetic Loop Antenna

NSO National Standard Organization

NSS Net Show Services Protocollo in disuso

NTA National Telecommunication Administration

NTC Termistore

NTP Network Time Protocol Per Sincronizzazione Orologi

NTSC Never Twice the Same Color

NUE Numero Unico di Emergenza europeo

NVIS Near Vertical Incidence Skywave Propagazione

NWR-SAME National Weather Radio-Specific Area Message Encoding

NWS National Weather Service



NYPD New York city Police Department

OB Old Boy

OC Onde Corte

OC Old Chap

OEN Organismi Europei di Normalizzazione

OFDM Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing CODFM

OGS istituto nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale

OL Onde Lunghe

OLD-MAN Radio Amateur

OLED Organic Light Emitting Diode

OM Old Man Radioamatore

OM Onde Medie

OMI Organizzazione Marittima Internazionale

ONG Organizzazione Non Governativa

ONI Office of Naval Intelligence USA

ONLUS Organizzazione Non Lucrativa di Utilita' Sociale

ONU Organisation des Nations Unies UN

OP OPerator

OS Operating System

OSI Open Systems Interconnection

OSM Open Street Map

OSMER Osservatorio Meteorologico Regionale

OSS Office of Strategic Services USA



OT Off Topic

OT Old Timer

OTH Over The Horizon Propagazione

OTH-RADAR Over The Horizon-RADAR

P2P Peer To Peer

PA Pilotless Aircraft Aeronautica - Drone - APR

PA Power Amplifier

PABX Private Automatic Branch Exchange Centrale Automatica Telefonica Privata

PACTOR PACket+amTOR Integrazione fra Packet e AMTOR

PAL Phase Alternating Line

PAM Pulse Amplitude Modulation

PAMR Pubblic Access Mobile Radio

PAN Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale Italia - Aeronautica

PBBS Personal Bullettin Board System

PBS Pass Band Switch

PBT PassBand Tuning

PBX Private Branch eXchange Centrale Telefonica Privata - In Disuso

PC Personal Computer

PCB Printed Circuit Board

PCB Power Circuit Breaker

PCB Process Control Block

PCI Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCM Pulse Code Modulation



PDF Portable Document Format

PEC Posta Elettronica Certificata

PEP Peak Envelope Power

PIC Programmable Interface Controller

PICTOR PICture Transmission Over Radio

PIN Personal Identification Number

PLB Personal Locator Beacons COSPAS/SARSAT

PLC Programmable Logic Controller

PLL Phase Locked Loop

PM Pulse Modulation

PM Post Meridiem

PMI Piccola e Medie Impresa

PMR Professional Mobile Radio

PMR446 Personal Mobile Radio

PNRF Piano Nazionale di Ripartizione delle Frequenze

PO Power Output

PO Post to Outbox

PO-BOX Postal Office BOX

POCSAG Post Office Code Standardisation Advisory Group Anche: Radio Paging Code

POE Power Over Ethernet

POL-ARQ POLish diplomatic ARQ

POS Point Of Sale

PP Picco Picco



PPM Parts Per Million

PPM Pulse Position Modulation

PPM Peer to Peer Message

PPP Point to Point Protocol

PROM Programmable Read Only Memory

PS Post Scriptum

PSDR Portable Software Defined Radio

PSE PleaSE

PSK Phase Shift Keying

PSK-nn Phase Shift Keying-nn radio amateur

PSM Phase Shift Modulation

PSTN Public Switched Telephone Network Rete Telefonica Pubblica Commutata

PTP Point To Point

PTT Push and hold To Transmit

PTT Post Telegraf and Telephone administration

PVC PoliVinilCloruro

PWD PassWorD

PWM Pulse With Modulation

PWR PoWeR

QAM Quadrature Amplitude Modulation nnQAM

QFH Quadri Filar Helical antenna

QMS Quick Mounting antenna System

QPSK Quaternary Phase Shift Keying 4-QPSK



QR Quick Response Code

QRSS Extremely Low CW

R&S Rhode & Schwarz

R&TTE Radio equipement & Telecommunications Terminal Equipement

RA Radiocommunication Assembly Aeronautica

RACAL RAymond brown and george CALder cunningham

RADAR RAdio Detection And Ranging

RADIOGRAM RADIO GRAMophone

RADTEL RADio TELephone network

RAF Royal Air Force Aeronautica

RAFC Regional Area Forecast Centre Aeronautica

RAI RAdiotelevisione Italiana

RAM Random Access Memory

RC Red Cross

RCA Radio Corporation of America

RCC Rescue Coordination Centre

RCVR ReCeiVeR

RDARA Regional and Domestic Air Route Area Aeronautica

RDF Radio Direction Finder

RDLAP Radio Data Link Access Protocol

RDS Radio Data System

REC REcorder Connector

REFLEX Single Lens Reflex SLR



REUTER REUTERs Ltd

RF Radio Frequency RF Power

RFDS Royal Flying Doctor Service

RFI Radio Frequency Interference

RFID Radio Frequency IDentification

RGB Red Green Blue

RHCP Right Hand Circularly Polarized

RIAA Recording Industry Association of America

RIT Receiver Incremental Tuning

RL Return Loss

R-LAN Radio Local Area Network

RMC Regional Meteorologic Centre

RMDR Reciprocal Mixing Dynamic Range

RMS Root Mean Square Audio

RN Royal Navy Marina Gran Bretagna

ROBOT ROBOTa Lingua Ceka

ROM Read Only Memory

ROS Rapporto di Onda Stazionaria

RPA Remotely Piloted Aircraft Aeronautica - Drone

Rpi RspberryPi

RPM Rotations Per Minute

RPT RePeaT

RR Radio Rivista



RR Radio Regulations

RRB Radio Regulations Board

RRC Regional Radiocommunication Conference

RSA Republic of South Africa

RSL Received Signal Level

RSP RADAR Signal Processor

RSP Receive Signal Processor SDR

RSP Received Signal Power

RST Readability Strenght Tono Leggibilita' Intensita' Tono (Tono solo x CW)

RT Radio Telegrafico

RTCM Radio Technical Committee for Marine Services Marina

RTD Resistance Thermal Detector

RTG Rete Telefonica Generale PSTN

RTL Register Transfer Level Chip

RTMS Radio Telephone Mobile System Telefonia

RTTT Road Transport and Traffic Telematics systems

RTTY Radio Tele TYpe

RTX RiceTrasmettiore

RUVR The Voice of Russia

RX Receiver

SAB System Ancillary to Broadcast

SABC South African Broadcasting Corporation

SAD Seasonal Affective Disorder



SAE Self Addressed Envelope

S-AM Syncronous detection-Amplitude Modulation

SAME Specific Area Message Encoding

SAR Search And Rescue

SARL Soth African Radio League

SARSAT Search And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking Canada Francia USA Russia

SART Search And Rescue Transponder

SAS Societa' in Accomandita Semplice

SASE Self Addressed Stamped Envelope

SATA Serial Advanced Technology Attachment

SAW Surface Acoustic Wave

SBR Spectral Band Replication

SCIA Segnalazione Certificata di Inizio Attivita'

SCR Silicon Controled Rectifier Tiristor

SCSI Small Computer System Interface

SD Secure Digital Scheda Memoria

S-DAB Satellite Digital Audio Broadcasting

SDC Sevrice Description Channel

SDR Software Defined Radio

SDT Segnali Dalla Terra

SEALs navy Sea - Air - Land US Navy SEALs

SECAM Sequentiel Couleur A Memorie



SECNAV Secretary of the Navy USA

SED Sayd

SELCAL SELective CALling

SEPAC Space Experiments with Particle ACcelerators

SESC Space Environmental Services Center

SETI Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence

SEZ Says

SFN Single Frequency Network

SG Synthesizer Generator

SHF Super High Frequency

SIA Sisteme d'Identification Automatique AIS

SID Standard Instrument Departure Aeronautica

SIG SIGnal

SIGINT SIGnal INTelligence

SIGMET SIGnificant METeorological information

SIGRAV Societa' Italiana di relativita' e fisica della GRAVitazione

SIGWX SIGnificant Weather

SIM Subscriber Identity Module

SINAD SIgnal to Noise And Distortion ratio

SINFO Signal strenght - Interference - Noise - Fading - Overall rating In disuso

SINPFEMO Signal strenght - Interference - Noise - Frequency of fading - Modulation quality - Modulation

depth - Propagation - Overall ratingSINPO Signal strenght - Interference - Noise - Propagation - Overall rating

SIO Signal strenght - Interference - Overall rating In disuso



SISSA Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati

SIT Satellite Interactive Terminal

SITOR Simplex Teletype Over Radio SITOR-A - SITOR-B

SK Silent Key

SKA Square Kilometer Array Antenne

SKED SKEDule

SKYPE SKY Peer to peer

SLB Single Letter Beacon

SLF Super Low Frequency

SLR Single Lens Reflex Reflex

SMA SubMiniature version A Connector

SMD Surface Mounting Device

S-METER Signal strenght METER

SN SooN

SNC Societa' in Nome Collettivo

SNR Signal Noise Ratio

SNS Signal Noise Separation method

SNS Spectral Noise Subtraction

SONAR SOund Navigation And Ranging

SOS Save Our Souls

SOTA Summits On The Air

SPA Societa' Per Azioni

S-PCS Satellite-Personal Communications Systems



SPDIF Sony/Philips Digital Interconnect Format

SPDU Squitter Protocol Data Unit

SPI Serial Peripheral Interface Sistema di comunicazione fra microcontroller e/o integrati

SPID Sistema Pubblico di Identita' Digitale

SPQR Senatus PopulusQue Romanus

SQUID Super QUantum Interference Device

SRAM Static Random Access Memory

SRD Short Range Devices Apparati Radio a bassa potenza di emissione

SRI Sorry

SRL Societa' a Responsabilita' Limitata

SRR Short Range Radar

SSB Single Side Band

SSD Solid State Drive

SSETI Student Space Exploration and Technology Initiative

SSMD Stato Maggiore della Difesa Italia - Aeronautica

SSPA Solid State Power Amplifier

SSR Secondary Surveillance Radar

SSTV Slow Scan TeleVision

ST Single Tone

STANAG STANdardization AGreement NATO

STAR STandard Arrival Routes Aeronautica

STASI miniSTerium fur stAatsSIcherheit Germania Est (MfS)

STC Save The Children



STN STatioN

SUT Satellite User Terminal

SW Short Wave

SWAT Special Weapons And Tactics

SWIFT Society of Worldwide International Financial Telecommunication Banche

SWL Short Wave Listener

SWR Standing Wave Ratio

Syncronous-AM Syncronous detection-Amplitude Modulation

SYNOP Surface sYNOPtic observation from a land station FM-12

TAC Tomografia Assiale Computerizzata

TACAN TACtical Air Navigation Aeronautica

TACS Total Access Communication System In disuso

TADIL TActical Digital Information Link Aeronautica

TAF Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts

TAI Tempo Atomico Internazionale

TAR Tribunale Amministrativo Regionale

TC Tele Command

TCP Transmission Control Protocol - Transfer Control Protocol

TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol Transfer Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

TCXO Temperature Compensated crystal Oscillator

T-DAB Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting

TDM Time Division Multiplex digital transmission system

TDMA Time Division Multiple Access



TDT Televisione Digitale Terrestre

TELETHON TELEvision maraTHON

TEMP TEMPerature

TETRA TErrestial Trunked RAdio

TEV TeraElettronVolt

TFT Thin Film Transistor

TFTS Terrestrial Flight Telephone System

THD Total Harmonic Distortion Audio

TIF Tagged Image file Format

TLC TeLeCommunications TeLeComunicazioni

TLE Two Line Element data format Satellite Orbital Elements

TLPR Tank Level Probing Radar

TMW ToMorroW

TNC Terminal Node Controller

TNT TriNitroToluene Tritolo

TNX Thanks

TOGA Take-Off/Go-Around mode Aeronautica

TOSLINK TOShiba LINK

TPDR Transmitter resPonDeR XPDR XPNDR TPDR TRANSPONDERR

TRANSPONDER TRANSmitter resPONDER XPDR XPNDR TPDR TRANSPONDERR

TRIAC TRIode for Alternating Current

TS Technical Standard

TSF Time Signal Frequency



TSF Time Standard Frequency

TT&C Telemetry Tracking & Control

TTL Transistor Transistor Logic

TTS Trafic To Ships

TTT Transport and Traffic Telematics

TTY TeleTYpe

TU Thank yoU

TUF The Ultimate Force

TULPS Testo Unico delle Leggi di Pubblica Sicurezza

TUSMAR Testo Unico dei Servizi di Media Audiovisivi e Radiofonici

TVC TeleVisione Commerciale

TVI TeleVision Interference

TVS Transient Voltage Suppressor

TX Transmitter

UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Aeronautica - Drone

UDP User Datagram Protocol

UER Unione Europea di Radiodiffusione

UFO Unidentified Flying Object

UHF Ultra High Frequency

UHT Ultra High Temperature

UKW UltraKurzWelle

ULF Ultra Light Frequency

UMTS Universal Mobile Telecommunication System



UN United Nations ONU

UNESCO United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNF United Nations Forces ONU

UNHCR United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNI ente nazionale italiano di UNIficazione

UNID UNIDentifyed

UNO United Nations Organization

UPU Union Postale Universelle

UPU Universal Postal Union

UR yoUR

URL Uniform Resource Locator

URSS Unione delle Repubbliche Socialiste Sovietiche CCCP - USSR

USA United States of America

USAF United States Air Force

USB Upper Side Band

USB Universal Serial Bus

USCG United States Coast Guard

USD United States Dollar

USDD United States Departement of Defense USA

USDN United States Department of the Navy USA

USE United States Embassy

USMC United States Marine Corps USA

USN United States Navy



USNO United States Naval Observatory

USPI Unione Stampa Periodica Italiana

USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Repubblics CCCP - URSS

USSS United States Secret Service USA

USSTRATCOM United States STRATegic COMmand

UT Universal Time GMT - UTC

UTC Universal Time Coordinated GMT - UTC

UTF-8 Unicode Transformation Format 8bit

UV Ultra Violet Light

UWB Ultra Wide Band

VAC Virtual Audio Cable Software

VARACTOR VARiAble CapaciTance diode In disuso

VARIAC VARiable Alternating Current transformer

VARICAP VARIable CAPacitance diode

VCA Voltage Controlled Amplifier

VCG Volunteer Coast Guard

VCO Voltage Controlled Oscillator

VDC Voltage Direct Current

VDL VHF Data Link

VDL2 VHF Data Link mode 2

VDSL Very high speed Digital Subscriber Line

VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Display

VFO Variable Frequency Oscillator



VFR Visual Flight Rules Aeronautica

VFT Voice Frequency Telegraphy Band Width

VHDSL Very High speed Digital Subscriber Line

VHF Very High Frequency

VLBI Very Long Baseline Interferometry

VLF Very Low Frequency

VNA Vector Network Analyzer

VOA Voice Of America

VOACAP Voice Of America Coverage Analysis Program Propagazione

VoIP Voice over IP

VOLMET VOL METeo Francese

VOR Vhf Omnidirectional radio Range Aeronautica

VOX Voice Operated eXchange

VR Visual Radio

VR Variable Resistor

VRIT Variable RIT

VSAT Vary Small Amplitude Terminal

VSC Voice Scan Control

VSPE Virtual Serial Ports Emulator Software

VSWR Voltage Standing Wave Ratio

VT Vacuum Tube

VT Validity Time

VTS Vessel Traffic Services



VY VerY

WAAC Worked All African Continent

WAC Worked All Countries

WALSH WALSH function Trains of Square Pulses

WARC World Administrative Radio Conference 1979

WAS Worked All States USA

WAS-LAN Wireless Access Systems-Local Area Network

WB Wide Band

WBFM Wide Band FM

WBHF Wide Band HF

WCA With Cyrillic Alphabet

WDS WorDS

WEB World Wide Web WWW

WEBTV World Wide Web TeleVision

WEFAX WEather FAX HF-FAX

WFM Wide FM

WFP World Food Programme

WiFi Local area wireless computer networking Sinonimo di WLAN

WIKI Dalla lingua Hawaiana = Rapido - Molto Veloce

WKD WorKeD

WL WilL

WLA With Latin Alphabet

WLAN Wireless Local Area Network



WLL Wireless Local Loop

WMC World Metereological Centre ONU

WMO World Metereological Organization ONU

WOSM World Organization Scout Movement

WPM Words Per Minute

WRC World Radiocommunication Conference

WRP Weather RePort

WRTH World Radio Tv Handbook

WSPR Wake Signal Propagation Reporter

WUD WoUlD

WWI World War I WW1

WWII World War II WW2

WWL World Wide Locator

WWV United States National Institute of Standards and Technologies callsign Call Sign: Fort Collins - Colorado - USA

WWVH United States National Institute of Standards and Technologies callsign Call Sign: Kekaha - Kauai Is - Hawaii

WWW World Wide Web WEB

WWW World Weather Watch WEB

WX Weather

WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

XFMR transForMerR

XMTR transMitTeR

XPDR transmitter resPonDeR XPDR XPNDR TPDR TRANSPONDERR

XPNDR transmitter resPoNDeR XPDR XPNDR TPDR TRANSPONDERR



XTAL crysTAL quartz

XYL Married Young Lady

YL Young Lady

YOTA Youngsters On The Air

YR YouR

Z Coordinated Universal Time (Zulu) UTC - UT - GMT

ZULU Coordinated Universal Time

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