QN Signals

The QN Signals are <a href="/facts/Morse_code/GXwCl1HV">Morse code</a> <a href="/facts/Operating_signals/eor7kwNU">operating signals</a> that were introduced for <a href="/facts/Amateur_radio_net/VSDqrthK">Amateur radio net</a> operation in 1939 on the Michigan QMN Net to lighten the burdens of net control operators. Originally created by a committee of the Detroit Amateur Radio Association led by Ralph Thetreat, W8FX. Ev Battey W1UE (W4IA-SK), then ARRL assistant communications manager, later printed them in QST.
The QN Signals are defined in ARRL document FSD-218 and listed in the ARRL Operating Manual.: 5–3 
Although these codes are within the Aeronautical Code signals range (QAA–QNZ) and thus conflict with official international Q signals beginning with QN, the ARRL informally queried FCC's legal branch about the conflict. The opinion then of the FCC was that "no difficulty was forseen [<a href="/facts/Sic/qB9MUUWF">sic</a>?] as long as we continued to use them only in amateur nets.": 5–3

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QN Signals