| 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:
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| 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
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| 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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| 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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| KOCnAC/ 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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| SCANCOM M
| 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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