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QSO

American  
Astronomy.
  1. quasi-stellar object.


QSO British  

abbreviation

  1. astronomy quasi-stellar object

  2. (in New Zealand) Queen's Service Order

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When I made my first contact I was simultaneously in QSO with SV1AB and SV1IO on 1,296 MHz who could hear what was going on.

From The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view by Joly, Norman F.

The first such QSO took place on the 10th April 1978 between ZE2JV and 5B4WR.

From The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view by Joly, Norman F.

One can be in QSO on 20 metres via ground wave with a station a couple of hundred miles away with signals around s2 to s3.

From The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view by Joly, Norman F.

And so it was that the first 'mobile' QSO took place on 2 metres between licensed Greek amateurs on the 27th of January 1965 at 19.25 local time.

From The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view by Joly, Norman F.

But when finally one day I broke into a net QSO I arranged schedules for Moonbounce with two stations in Sweden.

From The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: a personal view by Joly, Norman F.