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The radio communications industry uses a bewildering selection of acronyms that are industry specific. Other industries use the same acronym to mean something entirely different. For example PA can mean 'Public Affairs' or 'Personal Assistant' or, in the case of radio communications, 'Power Amplifier'.

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Acronyms

… Second Generation of mobile phones.

… Third Generation of mobile phones.

… Fourth Generation of mobile phones.

… Fifth Generation of mobile phones.

8PSK

… Eight state Phase Shift Keying.

ACP

… Adjacent Channel Power.

aka

… Also Known As.

API

… Application Programming Interface.

ATE

… Automated Test Equipment.

AWR

… Applied Wave Research.

BLE

… Bluetooth Low Energy.

CAD

… Computer Aided Design.

CDMA

… Code Division Multiple Access.

CSS

… Cascading Style Sheets.

DAB

… Digital Audio Broadcasting.

… Direct Current (means low frequencies).

DECT

… Digital European Cordless Telephone.

… De Havilland.

DRO

… Dielectric Resonator Oscillators.

DSO

… Digital Storage Oscilloscope.

DVB-T

… Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial.

DVT

… Design Verification Testing.

EDGE

… Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution.

… Electro Magnetic.

EMC

… Electro Magnetic Compatibility.

EMI

… Electro Magnetic Interference.

ENR

… Excess Noise Ratio.

… European Union.

ETSI

… European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

EVM

… Error Vector Magnitude.

FCC

… Federal Communications Commission.

FSK

… Frequency Shift Keying.

… Frequency Modulation.

GFSK

… Gaussian Frequency Shift Keying.

GMSK

… Gaussian Minimal Shift Keying.

GNSS

… Global Navigation Satellite System.

GPIB

… General Purpose Interface Bus.

GPS

… Global Positioning System.

GSM

… Global System for Mobile Communications.

… High Frequency, 3 to 30MHz.

HTML

… HyperText Mark-up Language.

HTML5

… HyperText Mark-up Language 5.

HTTP

… HyperText Transfer Protocol.

… Integrated circuit.

… Intermediate Frequency.

IIP3

… Third order Input Intercept Point.

IoT

… Internet of Things.

… Internet Protocol.

… In phase and Quadrature.

ISM

… Industrial Scientific and Medical.

LNA

… Low Noise Amplifier.

LTE

… Long Term Evolution. see 4G

… Maintenance Unit.

NWA

… NetWork Analyser.

P1dB

… 1dB compression point.

P3P

… Platform for Privacy Preferences Project.

… Personal Computer.

PDA

… Personal Digital Assistant.

PLL

… Phase Locked Loop.

… Phase Modulation.

… Power Amplifier.

PCB

… Printed Circuit Board.

PMR

… Private Mobile Radio.

RAF

… Royal Air Force.

RED

… Radio Equipment Directive.

RBW

… Resolution BandWidth.

… Radio Frequency.

RMS

… Root Mean Squared.

RSSI

… Received Signal Strength Indication.

TAF

… Tactical Air Force.

TCXO

… Temperature Controlled cryXtal Oscillator.

… United Kingdom.

UMTS

… Universal Mobile Telecommunications System.

USA

… United States of America.

VCO

… Voltage Controlled Oscillators.

VHF

… Very High Frequency.

VNA

… Vector Network Analyser.

VSA

… Vector Signal Analyser.

VSS

… Visual System Simulator.

VSWR

… Voltage Standing Wave Ratio.

W3C

… World Wide Web Consortium.

WCDMA

… Wideband Code Division Multiple Access.

WiFi

… Wireless Fidelity (means an 802.11 radio product).

WLAN

… Wireless Local Area Network.

XHTML

… eXtensible HyperText Mark-up Language.

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