Brass-pounder trivia

By Norm, W1TLZ

We hams use Q signals as shortcuts on CW. During and prior to World War II, the U.S. military used another set of shortcuts. They were the same as Q signals, except that they began with another letter of the alphabet. Do you know what letter it was? The answer is hidden on page 6.

from the May '96 Indian River ARC (Cocoa Beach ,Fla.) "Spurious emissions Newsletter" Dick McKlveen, W4YWA, Editor, ARNS, Nov. '96.