Abbreviations

ADS

Automatic Dependant Surveillance (Aeronautical)

AES

Aircraft Earth Station

AGA

Air-Ground-Air

AIS

Universal Shipborne Automatic Identification System

ALD

Assistive Listening Devices

Amplitude Modulation

ASDE

Airport Surface Detection Equipment

BBDR

Broad Band Disaster Relief

BFWA

Broadband Fixed Wireless Access

BMA

Building Material Analysis

BWA

Broadband Wireless Access

Citizen's Band

CCIR

Commité Consultatif International Radiocommunication

CDMA

Coded Division Multiplexing Access

CEPT

Conférence Européenne des Administrations des Postes et des Télécommunications (European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations)

civ.

civil

COSPAS/SARSAT

satellite search and rescue system

CRS

Central Radio Station

Cordless Telephone

DA2GC

Direct Air-to-Ground Communications

Duty Cycle

D-GPS

Diferencial Global Positioning System

DECT

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications

DME

Distance Measuring Equipment

DMO

Direct Mode Operation

DRM

Digital Radio Mondiale

DSC

Digital Selective Calling

DVB-T

Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial

ECC

Electronic Communications Committee

E-GSM

Extended Global System for Mobile Communication

e.i.r.p.

Equivalent Isotropically Radiated Power

ELT

Emergency Locator Transmitter

EMS

European Mobile Satellite System

European Norm

ENG/OB

Electronic News Gathering / Outside Broadcasting

EPIRB

Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons

ERC

European Radiocommunications Committee

e.r.p.

Effective Radiated Power

ESIM

Earth Station In-Motion

ESOMP

Earth Stations On Mobile Platforms

ESV

Earth Stations on-board Vessels

FDD

Frequency Division Duplex

Frequency Modulation

Fixed Service

FSS

Fixed Satellite Service

FWA

Fixed Wireless Access

GBAS

Ground-Based Augmentation System

GBSAR

Ground Based Synthetic Aperture Radar

GLONASS

GLObalnaja NAvigacionnaja Sputnikovaja Sistema (Global Navigation Satellite System)

GMDSS

Global Maritime Distress and Safety System

GMPCS

Global Mobile Personal Communications System

GNSS

Global Navigation Satellite System

GPR/WPR

Ground - and Wall - Probing Radar

GPS

Global Positioning System

GSM

Global System for Mobile Communication

GSM-R

Global System for Mobile Communications on Railways

GSO

Geostationary Satellite Orbit

HAPS

High Altitude Platform Station

harmon.

harmonised (mil. band)

HDFS

High Density Fixed Service

HEST

High e. i. r. p. - Satellite Terminals

IBCN

Integrated Broadband Communications Network

IFF

Identification Friend or Foe

ILS

Instrument Landing System

IMT

International Mobile Telecommunications

INMARSAT

International Maritime Satellite Organisation

ISM

Industrial, Scientific and Medical

ITS

Inteligent Transport Systems

ITU-R

International Telecommunication Union - Radiocommunication

JTIDS

Joint Tactical Information Distribution System

Locator

LAES

Location Application for Emergency Services

LAN

Local Area Network

LEST

Low e. i. r. p. - Satellite Terminals

LP-AMI

Low Power Active Medical Implants

LPD

Low Power Device

LPR

Level Probing Radar

LT2

Location Tracking type 2

LTE

Long Term Evolution

Long Waves

MBANS

Medical Body Area Network System

MCA

Mobile Communications on Board Aircraft

MCV

Mobile Communication Services on Board Vessels

MFCN

Mobile/Fixed Communications Networks

MIDS

Multifunctional Information Distribution System

mil.

military

MLS

Microwave Landing System

MMDS

Microwave Multipoint Distribution System

MSI

Maritime Safety Information

MSS

Mobile Satellite Service

MVDS

Multipoint Video Distribution System

Middle Waves

MWS

Multimedia Wireless System

NAVTEX

Narrow-Band Direction-Printing Telegraphy System for Transmission of Navigational and Meteorological Warnings and Urgent Information to Ships

NDB

Nondirectional Radio Beacon

NGSO

Non-Geostationary Satellite Orbit

NP2M

Narrowband Point to Multipoint system

Outside Broadcasting

(OR)

(Outside Routes)

PAMR

Public Access Mobile Radio

PAR

Precision Approach Radar

PLB

Personal Locator Beacon

PPDR

Public Protection and Disaster Relief

PMSE

Programme Making and Special Events

PMR

Private/ Professional Mobile Radio

(R)

(Along Routes)

Radio Astronomy

RFID

Radio Frequency Identification

RLAN

Radio Local Area Network

RMR

Railway Mobile Radio

Radio Regulations

RTE

Radar Target Enhancer

SAB

Service Ancillary to Broadcasting

SAP

Service Ancillary to Programme Making

SAR

Search and Rescue

SATCOM

Satellite Communication

SIT/SUT

Satellite Interactive Terminal / Satellite User Terminal

SNG

Satellite News Gathering

S-PCS

Satellite Personal Communication Service

SRD

Short Range Device

SRR

Short Range Radars

SSR

Secondary Surveillance Radar

SUP

suppressed

Short Waves

TACAN

Tactical Air Navigation

TACS

Total Access Communications System

T-DAB

Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting

TDD

Time Division Duplex

TETRA

Terrestrial Trunked Radio

TETRAPOL

digital professional mobile radio standard for digital voice and data communication used by public safety and military throughout Europe

TLPR

Tank Level Probing Radar

TRA-ECS

Terrestrial radio applications capable of providing electronic communications services

Terminal Station

TTT

Transport and Traffic Telematics

Television

ULP-AMI

Ultra Low Power Active Medical Implants

ULP-MMI

Ultra Low Power Medical Membrane Implant

UWB

Ultra Wide Band

VHF

Very High Frequency

VLBI

Very Long Baseline Interferometry

VOR

VHF Omnidirectional Range

WAIC

Wireless Avionics Intra-Communications systems

WAS

Wireless Access Systems

WRC

World Radiocommunication Conference."