AAIC
| Accounting Authority Identification Code
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AC
| Alternating Current
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ADE
| Above Deck Equipment
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AF
| Audio Frequency
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AGC
| Automatic Gain Control
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AM
| Amplitude Modulation
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AMVER
| Automated Mutual-Assistance Vessel Rescue System
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AOR-E
| Atlantic Ocean Region (East)
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AOR-W
| Atlantic Ocean Region (West)
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ARCC
| Aeronautical Rescue Coordinating Centre
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ARQ
| Automatic Repetition reQuest
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ASCII
| American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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AUSREP
| AMVER, operated by the Australian Authorities
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A1A
| Continuous wave telegraphy, Morse code
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A2A
| Telegraphy by the on-off a tone modulated carrier, Morse code: double sideband
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A3A
| Telephony using amplitude modulation: double sideband
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BBER
| Bulletin Board Error Rate
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BDE
| Below Deck Equipment
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CC
| Coast Charge
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CCIR
| International Radio Consultative Committee
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CCITT
| International Consultative Committee for Telegraph and Telephone
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CEPT
| Conference of European Postal and Telecommunications administrations
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CES
| Coast Earth Station (Inmarsat)
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Ch
| Channel
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CQ
| General call to all stations
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CSS
| Coordinator Surface Search
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DE
| Signal used in Morse telegraphy meaning «THIS IS…»
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DF
| Direction Finder
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DSC
| Digital Selective Calling
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EGC
| Enhanced Group Call (Inmarsat)
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EPIRB
| Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon
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ETA
| Estimated Time of Arrival
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ETD
| Estimated Time of Departure
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FAX
| Facsimile
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FEC
| Forward Error Correction
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FM
| Frequency Modulation
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FSK
| Frequency Shift Keying
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F1B
| Telegraphy using frequency modulation (telex)
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F3E
| Telephony using frequency modulation
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GA+
| Go Ahead (telex)
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GF
| Gold Frank
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GHz
| GigaHertz
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GMDSS
| Global Maritime Distress and Safety System
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GOC
| General Operator's Certificate
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GPS
| Global Positioning System
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G3E
| Telephony using phase modulation
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HF
| High Frequency (3÷30 MHz)
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HSD
| High Speed Data
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H2A
| Telegraphy by the on-off keying of a tone modulated carrier, Morse code: single sideband, full carrier
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H3E
| Telephone using amplitude modulation: single sideband, full carrier
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IAMSAR
| International Aeronautical and Maritime Search and Rescue Manual
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IBM
| International Business Machines
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IC
| Integrated Circuit
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ICAO
| International Civil Aviation Organization
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IF
| Intermediate Frequency
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IHO
| International Hydrographic Organization
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IMN
| Inmarsat Mobile Number
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IMO
| International Maritime Organization
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INMARSAT
| INternational MARitime SATellite organization
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IOR
| Indian Ocean Region
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ITA2
| International Telegraph Alphabet 2
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ITU
| International Telecommunication Union
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J3E
| Telephone using amplitude modulation: single sideband suppressed carrier
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JASREP
| AMVER, operated by the Japanese Authorities
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kHz
| KiloHertz
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КОСПАС/ SARSAT
| КОсмическая Система Поиска Аварийных Судов/Search And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking
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kW
| KiloWatt
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LCD
| Liquid Crystal Display
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LES
| Land Earth Station
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LL
| LandLine charge
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LMES
| Land-Mobile Earth Station
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LSB
| Lower Side Band
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LUT
| Local User Terminal (КОСПАС/SARSAT system)
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MCC
| Mission Control Centre (КОСПАС/SARSAT system)
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MERSAR
| MERchant ship Search And Rescue manual
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MES
| Mobile Earth Station
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MF
| Medium Frequency (300÷3000 kHz)
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MHz
| MegaHertz
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MID
| Maritime Identification Digits
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MMSI
| Maritime Mobile Service Identities
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MRCC
| Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (RCC)
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MS-DOS
| MicroSoft Disk Operating System
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MSI
| Maritime Safety Information
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NAVAREA
| NAVigational AREA – short title of an area in the wold-wide navigational warning service
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NAVTEX
| NAVigational TEleX
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NBDP
| Narrow-Band Direct Printing
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NCS
| Network Co-ordination Station (Inmarsat)
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NM
| Nautical Mile
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NOC
| Network Operation Centre (Inmarsat)
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OBS
| Prefix for Meteorological telegrams
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OCC
| Operations Control Centre
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OSC
| On-Scene Commander
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PC
| Personal Computer
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PCP
| Programmable Communication Processor
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POR
| Pacific Ocean Region
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PRN
| PriNter
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PSDN
| Packet Switched Data Network
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PSTN
| Public Switched Telephone Network
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R3E
| Telephony using amplitude modulation: single sideband, reduced carrier
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RAM
| Random Access Memory
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RCC
| Rescue Coordinating Centre (MRCC)
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ROC
| Restricted Operator's Certificate
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ROM
| Read Only Memory
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RT
| Radio Telephony
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RTM
| Radio Telex Modem
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RX
| Receiver
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SAR
| Search And Rescue
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SARSAT
| Search And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking
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SART
| Search And Rescue Transponder
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SCANCOMM
| Skanti Computerized Advanced Node for Communicating Maritime Messages
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SDR
| Special Drawing Right
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SelCall
| Selective Calling
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SelFEC
| Selective Forward Error Correction (telex)
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SKANTI
| SKANdinavisk TeleIndustry
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SES
| Ship Earth Station
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SOLAS
| Safety Of Life At Sea
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SS
| Ship Station charge (Mobile station charge)
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SSB
| Single Side Band
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TEL
| TELephone (voice) transmission via PSTN
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TELEX
| TELegraphic EXchange
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TLX
| store-and-forward TeLeX
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TOR
| Telex Over Radio
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TRP
| Transmitter Receiver Power supply
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TV
| TeleVision
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TX
| Transmitter, Transmission
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UHF
| Ultra High Frequency
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USB
| Upper Side Band
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UTC
| Universal Coordinated Time
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VBTLX
| Voice Bank and TeLeX transmission via PSTN and TELEX
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VHF
| Very High Frequency (30÷300 MHz)
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VTS
| Vessel Traffic Service
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W
| Watt
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WARC
| World Administrative Radio Conference
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WMO
| World Meteorological Organization
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WRU
| Who aRe yoU? (telex)
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WT
| Wireless Telegraphy (Morse)
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WWNWS
| World Wide Navigational Service
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Wx
| Weather
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