Proword Dictionary for Emergency Communications
- AFFIRMATIVE means “Yes” or “I agree” or “Permission granted.”
- BREAK, BREAK, BREAK means you have emergency traffic that must be passed immediately.
- CHECK BREAK means you are pausing to verify that the receiving station has copied your message. An appropriate response from the receiving station would be “COPY.”
- CLEAR or OUT means your transmission is completed and no answer is required or expected.
- CLOSE means you are shutting down your station and can no longer be contacted.
- COPY THAT or ROGER means you have received the transmission satisfactorily.
- CORRECT means you acknowledge what was transmitted as correct.
- CORRECTION means an error has been made and the transmission will continue with the last word correctly transmitted.
- DECIMAL indicates a decimal point.
- DISREGARD means an error has been made in the transmission that is in progress and you are to completely ignore this transmission.
- FIGURES means that the following words are to be copied as numbers.
- I SPELL means you will spell the following word(s) phonetically.
- NEGATIVE means “No” or “I disagree” or “Permission denied.”
- OUT or CLEAR means your transmission is completed and no answer is required or expected.
- OVER means you are finished with your transmission and the other station is expected to reply.
- ROGER or COPY THAT means you have received the transmission satisfactorily.
- SAY AGAIN means you want the last message to be repeated. You may include a modifier to have part of a message repeated, as in the following examples:
- “Say again ALL AFTER __________”
- “Say again ALL BEFORE _________”
- “Say again WORD AFTER _________”
- “Say again WORD BEFORE ________”
- STANDBY or WAIT means you are not yet ready to copy. You may include a time modifier, such as “Standby one.”
- THIS IS means the transmission is from the station whose call sign follows.
- WAIT or STANDBY means you are not yet ready to copy. You may include a time modifier, such as “Standby one.”