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  2. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...

  3. Radio code - Wikipedia

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    Many car audio systems (car radios) have a so-called 'radio code' number which needs to be entered after a power disconnection. This was introduced as a measure to deter theft of these devices. If the code is entered correctly, the radio is activated for use. Entering the code incorrectly several times in a row will cause a temporary or ...

  4. Brevity code - Wikipedia

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    The codes' procedure words, a type of voice procedure, are designed to convey complex information with a few words, when brevity is required but security is not. Ten-code, North American police brevity codes, including such notable ones as 10-4. Phillips Code. NOTAM Code. Wire signal, Morse Code abbreviation, also known as 92 Code.

  5. Survival radio - Wikipedia

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    AN/URC-10 - The RT-10 are subminiaturized, completely transistorized UHF radio sets. They consist of a crystal-controlled receiver-transmitter, a 16-v dry battery, and a power cable assembly. The unit operates on one channel in the 240-260 MHz band, usually 243 MHz. RT-60 and RT-60B1 were two frequency versions of the RT-10

  6. Hospital emergency codes - Wikipedia

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    Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.

  7. AN/PRC-10 - Wikipedia

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    AN/PRC-10. The AN/PRC-10 is an American VHF portable radio transceiver, introduced in 1951 [1] as a replacement for the wartime SCR-300 set. The AN/PRC-8 and AN/PRC-9 sets are basically the same but cover lower frequency bands. It remained in service with the American military until the mid 1960s when it was replaced by the transistorized AN ...

  8. Radio - Wikipedia

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    An antenna farm hosting various radio antennas on Sandia Peak near Albuquerque, New Mexico, US. Radio is the technology of communicating using radio waves. [1] [2] [3] Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an ...

  9. Prosigns for Morse code - Wikipedia

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    Prosigns for Morse code. Diagram of a telegraph key used to send messages in Morse code. Procedural signs or prosigns are shorthand signals used in Morse code telegraphy, for the purpose of simplifying and standardizing procedural protocols for landline and radio communication. The procedural signs are distinct from conventional Morse code ...