QSO
Speech parts
1. QSO - Noun
2. QSO - Verb
Meaning
Initialism of quasi-stellar object. (a quasar)
(dated) A radio-quiet quasar.
QSO (third-person singular simple present QSOs, present participle QSOing, simple past and past participle QSOed)
(transitive, intransitive, radio slang) To communicate (with) by means of amateur radio.
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Examples
A few weeks later, G3CQE had the first G/VE RTTY QSO with VE7KX.
In early 1949, the first American transcontinental two-way RTTY QSO was accomplished on 11 meters using AFSK between Tom McMullen (W1QVF) operating at W1AW and Johnny Agalsoff, W6PSW.
It was not until 1979 that this effect was confirmed by observation of the so-called " Twin QSO " SBS 0957+561.
The first two-way amateur radioteletype QSO of record took place in May 1946 between Dave Winters, W2AUF, Brooklyn,NY and W2BFD, John Evans Williams, Woodside Long Island, NY.