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-Acroynms List
+Acronyms List
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-List of acronyms used in this documentation.
+*Contributor: Tim Bratton K5RA*
 
+List of acronyms sometimes encountered in the AREDN® project.
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+:AAM: AREDN® Alert Message
+:AAMM: AREDN® Alert Message Manager
 :AC: Alternating Current
+:ACK: Acknowledge, Acknowledgement
+:ADMIN: Administration, Administrative, Administrator
+:ADS-B: Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast
+:ADV: Advanced
+:AFS: AREDN® Firmware Selector
 :AGL: Above Ground Level
+:AM: Amplitude Modulation
 :AP: Access Point
 :API: Application Programming Interface
-:AREDN®: Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network
+:AREDN: Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network
+:ARES: Amateur Radio Emergency Service
+:ARP: Address Resolution Protocol
+:ARPS: Automatic Packet Reporting System
+:ARRL: American Radio Relay League
+:ASF: Apache Software Foundation
+:ATA: Analog Telephone Adapter
+:AV: Audio Visual
+:AVL: Automatic Vehicle Location
+:AZ: Azimuth
+:BIN: Binary File Type
+:BSSID: Basic Service Set Identifier
+:CAD: Computer Aided Dispatch, Computer Aided Design
 :CCA: Clear Channel Assessment
 :CGI: Common Gateway Interface
+:CHAN: Channel
+:CIDR: Classless Inter-Domain Routing
+:CM: Centimeter (10 E-2 meter)
+:CMD: Command
+:CONF: Configuration
+:CPU: Central Processing Unit
 :CSMA/CA: Carrier Sense Multiple Access / Collision Avoidance
+:CSS: Cascading Style Sheets (computer graphics)
+:CTR: Center
+:CTRL: Control (a keyboard key)
 :CTS: Clear to Send
-:dB: Decibel
-:dBm: Decibel relative to one milliwatt
+:CTCSS: Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System
+:DB: Decibel
+:DBI: Decibel relative to an isotropic radiator
+:DBM: Decibel relative to one milliwatt (10E-3 watt)
 :DC: Direct Current
 :DDNS: Dynamic Domain Name System
 :DFS: Dynamic Frequency Selection
 :DHCP: Dynamic Host Control Protocol
+:DHS: Department of Homeland Security
 :DMZ: Demilitarized Zone
 :DNS: Domain Name System
-:DtD: Device to Device
-:ePub: Electronic Publication
+:DSP: Digital Signal Processor
+:DTD: Device to Device
+:EL: Elevation
+:EMCOMM: Emergency Communications
+:EPUB: Electronic Publication
 :ETX: Expected Transmission
 :EWMA: Exponential Weighted Moving Average
 :FCC: Federal Communications Commission
+:FLV: Flash video file container format
 :FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name
 :FTP: File Transfer Protocol
+:GHZ: Gigahertz (10E9 Hertz)
+:GIS: Geographic Information System
+:GNU: A project within which the free software concept originated
 :GPS: Global Positioning System
-:HD: High Definition
+:GUI: Graphical User Interface
+:GZ: A file format and software application (gzip) for file compression/decompression (g for GNU)
+:HLS: HTTP Live Streaming
+:HSL: Hue, saturation, lightness (for image color representation)
 :HTML: HyperText Markup Language
-:HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
+:HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol
+:IANA: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
 :ICMP: Internet Control Message Protocol
 :ICS: Incident Command System
-:IP: Internet Protocol
+:ICS-213: General Message form
+:ID: Identifier, Identity
+:IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
+:IIC: A synchronous master/slave single-ended, serial communications bus
+:IMAP: Internet Mail Access Protocol
+:IMG: Image file format
+:IPK: A compressed archive format used by the OpenWRT Package Management System (opkg) on AREDN® nodes
+:IP: Internet Protocol, Internet Protocol address
 :IRC: Internet Relay Chat
+:IRCD: Internet Relay Chat Daemon
+:ISES: Open Information Systems for Emergency Services
 :ISP: Internet Service Provider
+:I2C: A synchronous master/slave single-ended, serial communications bus
 :JSON: Javascript Object Notation
-:LAMP: Linux Apache MySQL PHP
+:KML: Keyhole Markup Language
+:KW: Kilowatt (10E3 watt)
+:LAMP: Linux, Apache, mySQL/MariaDB, and Perl/PHP/Python
 :LAN: Local Area Network
+:LAT: Latitude
 :LED: Light Emitting Diode
 :LGI: Long Guard Interval
+:LGPL: Lesser General Public License (GNU)
+:LON: Longitude
+:LOS: Line of Sight
 :LQ: Link Quality
-:LQM: Link Quality Manager
+:LQM: Link Quality Manager, Link Quality Management
+:MA: Milliamp (10E-3 amp)
 :MAC: Media Access Control
+:MACOS: Apple Computer Operating System
+:MAMPP: MacOS, Apache, mySQL/MariaDB, and Perl/PHP/Python
+:MB: Megabtye (10E6 bytes)
+:MBPS: Megabits (10E6 bits) per second
+:MCC: Mobile Command and Control
 :MCS: Modulation Coding Scheme
+:MG: Magnetic North
+:MHZ: Megahertz (10E6 Hertz)
+:µV: Microvolt (10E-6 volt)
 :MIMO: Multiple Input Multiple Output
+:MM: Millimeter (10E-3 meter)
+:MP4: A digital multimedia container format
 :MRC: Maximal Ratio Combining
+:MTR: My traceroute, Matt's traceroute – combines functions of traceroute and ping into one network diagnostic tool
+:MS: Microsoft
+:MSC: Mobile Switching Center
+:MSG: Message
 :NAT: Network Address Translation
+:NAV: Navigation
+:NC: Non-commercial
 :NLOS: Near Line of Sight
 :NLQ: Neighbor Link Quality
 :NTP: Network Time Protocol
+:NVRAM: Non-volatile Random Access Memory
 :OFDM: Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
 :OLSR: Optimized Link State Routing protocol
+:OLSRD: Optimized Link State Routing Daemon
+:ONVIF: Open Network Video Interface Forum
+:OPENWRT: An open-source project for embedded operating systems based on Linux upon which AREDN® is based
+:OS: Operating System
 :PBX: Private Branch Exchange
+:PC: Personal Computer
 :PDF: Portable Document Format
 :PEP: Peak Envelope Power
-:PoE: Power Over Ethernet
+:PHP: Perl Hypertext Pre-Processor
+:PPK: Private Key File Extension
+:POE: Power Over Ethernet
+:POP: Post Office Protocol
+:PR: Pull Request (a GitHub mechanism)
+:PSK: Phase-Shift Keying
+:PSK: Protect Access Pre-Shared Key
+:PTZ: Pan, Tilt, and Zoom (video camera control)
+:PUB: Public Key File Extension
+:PUTTY: Communications tool for running interactive command-line sessions on other computers
+:PVE: Proxmox Virtual Environment
+:PVID: Port VLAN Identification
 :PXE: Preboot Execution Environment
+:QEMU: Quick Emulator (computer virtualization engine)
+:QTH: Radio Q-signal for “Location”
+:RACES: Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service
 :RAM: Random Access Memory
 :RF: Radio Frequency
+:ROM: Read-Only Memory
+:RPI: Raspberry Pi single-board computer
 :RSSI: Received Signal Strength Indicator
+:RST: ReStructured Text file format
 :RTS: Request to Send
 :RTSP: Real Time Streaming Protocol
+:RX: Receive, Receiver
 :SCP: Secure Copy Program
+:SDR: Software Defined Radio
+:SF: San Francisco (California)
 :SISO: Single Input Single Output
+:SKYWARN: Program of the National Weather Service which collects reports of localized severe weather in the United States
+:SMS: Short Message Service
+:SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
+:SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol
 :SNR: Signal to Noise Ratio
+:SOP: Standard Operating Procedure
+:SQL: Structured Query Language for relational databases
+:SS: Spread Spectrum
 :SSH: Secure Shell
 :SSID: Service Set Identifier
 :SSL: Secure Sockets Layer
-:TCP: Transmission Control Procol
+:TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
+:TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
+:TDMA: Time Division Multiple Access
+:TELNET: Command line terminal program
 :TFTP: Trivial File Transfer Protocol
+:TMP: temporary
+:TN: True North
+:TX/RX: Transmit/Receive
+:UCI: Unified Configuration Interface
 :UDP: User Datagram Protocol
+:UI: User Interface
 :URL: Universal Resource Locator
 :USB: Universal Serial Bus
+:V: Volts
+:V2V: Virtual-to-virtual VM migration program
+:VDC: Volts – Direct Current
 :VLAN: Virtual Local Area Network
-:VoIP: Voice over IP
+:VLC: VideoLAN Client
+:VM: Virtual Machine
+:VMDK: Virtual Machine Disk format
+:VOIP: Voice over IP
+:W: Watt (unit of power)
 :WAN: Wide Area Network
+:WEBRTC: Web Real-Time Communication - open-source project to facility web communications
+:WGT: Weight
+:WIFI: Family of wireless networking protocols based on IEEE 802.11 standard
+:WIMAX: Family of wireless communication protocols based on IEEE 802.16 standard
+:WIN: Microsoft Windows
+:WINLINK: Worldwide radio messaging system using amateur radio frequencies
+:WINSCP: Secure file copy program for Windows
 :WISP: Wireless Internet Service Provider
-:XLINK: Link configured to pass AREDN® data between non-AREDN® devices
+:WPA: WiFi Protected Access encryption method (WPA/WPA2/WPA3)
+:WX: Weather
+:XLINK: Cross-Link configured to pass AREDN® data between non-AREDN® devices
+:XMPP: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol
+:YAAC: Yet Another ARPS Client
+:ZIP: File format and software application used for file compression/decompression