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Old 4th June 2001 | 03:04
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HugMonster
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It is an old misconception that the "Q" stood for "Question". Ever since people have tried, with some success in some cases and less in others, to complete the "acronyms" in the Q-code. Some operators may well have tried to make acronyms of them to make them easier to remember, but this was not the way they were designed.

It is also a nonsense that it was wartime code. Even in the realms of the most jingoistic war film, the Germans' codebreaking was just a tad better than that.

It was simply a method of abbreviating frequently-used messages to make it simpler and faster to send by morse.

Anything more than that is pure fantasising.