Land telegraphs had traditionally used " CQ " (" sécu ," from the French word sécurité or secours ) to identify alert or precautionary messages of interest to all stations along a telegraph line, and CQ had also been adopted as a " general call " for maritime radio use.

However, in landline usage there was no general emergency signal, so the Marconi company added a " D " (" distress ") to CQ in order to create its distress call.

Although used worldwide by Marconi operators, CQD was never adopted as an international standard since it could be mistaken for a general call " CQ " if the reception was poor.

Harman ended the phone call, according to CQ, by saying, " This conversation doesn ’ t exist.

CQ is a code used by wireless operators, particularly those communicating in Morse code, but also by voice operators, to make a general call ( called a CQ call ).

The CQ call was originally used by landline telegraphy operators in the United Kingdom.

A variant of the CQ call, CQD, was the first code used as a distress signal.

In ham radio usage, a CQ call can be qualified by appending more letters, as in CQ DX ( meaning " calling all long-distance stations "), or the ITU call sign prefix for a particular country ( e. g. CQ VK for " calling Australia ").

A CQ call is normally not used on short range VHF / FM and UHF / FM communication channels and, especially, on repeaters.

It hosts the student organizations Spectrum ( formally SOUL ), Connecticut College Queer and Questioning ( CQ ^ 2 ), and the Campaign for Gender Identity Awareness ( CGIA ).

* CQ ( film ), a 2001 film

Sylvia Daoust, CM, CQ ( 24 May 1902 – July 19, 2004 ), born in Montreal, was one of the first female sculptors in Quebec.

Although it retains the name " CQ Press " ( a trademark of Congressional Quarterly ), CQ Press is no longer an affiliate of Congressional Quarterly.

Founded in 1955 by Sid Yudain, a former press secretary to Congressman Al Morano ( R-Conn .), Roll Call is the flagship publication of the CQ Roll Call, which also operates: Congressional Quarterly ( CQ ), a publisher of print and online daily and weekly news about Congress and politics.

An initiator package ( such as: camphorquinone ( CQ ), phenylpropanedione ( PPD ) or lucirin ( TPO )) begins the polymerization reaction of the resins when external energy ( light / heat, etc.

The Group ’ s other brands include CQ Roll Call and European Voice ( aimed at decision-makers on Capitol Hill and Brussels respectively ), EuroFinance, a cash and treasury management event business, and a digital media agency, TVC.

Chautauqua County ( county code CQ ) is a county located in Southeast Kansas, in the Central United States.

The letters " CQ " are usually accompanied by the Morse Code for those letters, CQ being code shorthand for " Does anybody want to talk ?".

A number of day optics were used initially, which included Hensoldt Blitz, Leupold CQ / T, ACOG, Leupold TS-30A1 and ultimately the Leupold TS-30A2.

The letters CQ, when pronounced in French, resemble the first two syllables of sécurité, and were therefore used as shorthand for the word.

CQ was adopted by the Marconi Company in 1904 for use in wireless ( spark ) telegraphy, and was adopted internationally at the 1912 London International Radiotelegraph Convention, and is still used.

NicoDerm, also known as NicoDerm CQ ( short for Committed Quit or Committed Quitter ) is a branded over the counter palliative nicotine replacement therapy used to minimize the withdrawal effects involved in quitting smoking.

MarkLogic Server is used by companies in the media and information, financial services, government and other industries including Elsevier, LexisNexis, Wolters Kluwer, Oxford University Press, McGraw-Hill, the New England Journal of Medicine, and Bowker, as well as Zinio and CQ Roll Call.

* Norinco CQ, M16 clone developed by China

In 2007, Clarkstown was once again named the second safest city in the United States, in the 14th annual " 2007 – 2008 City Crime Rankings " published by CQ Press – formally known as Morgan Quitno, a unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

In 2008, Clarkstown was named the sixth safest city in the United States in the 15th annual " 2008 – 2009 City Crime Rankings " published by CQ Press.

In 2009, Clarkstown was named the seventh safest city in the United States in the 16th annual " 2009 – 2010 City Crime Rankings " published by CQ Press.

In 2010, Clarkstown was named the fifth safest city in the United States in the 17th annual " 2010 – 2011 City Crime Rankings " published by CQ Press.

In 2010, State College was ranked as the third-safest metropolitan area in the United States by the CQ Press.

* A 2007 crime survey by CQ Press found Broken Arrow to be the 22nd safest city in the nation and the safest city in Oklahoma.

The race had been ranked as " leaning Democratic " by CQ Politics, but Buchanan scored a very narrow victory, winning the election by a few hundred votes.

* A play about Blair, CQ / CX, written by Gabe McKinley, was produced by the Atlantic Theater Company in 2012.

* CQ ( 2001 )-directed by Roman Coppola and starring Jeremy Davies and Angela Lindvall

* CQ ( 2001 ) ( directed by Roman Coppola )

* Banks, Arthur S .; Muller, Thomas C ; Overstreet, William R., Political Handbook of Asia 2007, published by CQ Press, ISBN 0-87289-497-5

CQ or C-IQ ( Collaborative IQ or Collaborative Intelligence ) measures the collaborative effectiveness of a group, which can be greater or less than the aggregate knowledge and capability possessed by individual group members.

That first intraocular lens was manufactured by the Rayner company of Brighton, East Sussex, England from Perspex CQ Polymethylmethacrylate ( PMMA ) made by ICI ( Imperial Chemical Industries ).

The team capped off a successful 2008 by finishing second to Team CSC in the CQ Team Ranking.

* Popular Communications monthly magazine published by CQ Communications.

CQ was acquired by the Economist Group and combined with Roll Call to form CQ Roll Call in 2009.

CQ was founded in 1945 by Nelson Poynter and his wife, Henrietta Poynter, with the aim of providing a link between local newspapers and the complex politics within Washington D. C. CQ has the largest news team covering Capitol Hill, with more than 100 reporters, editors and researchers.