Pro word Dictionary for Emergency Communication

Pro word Dictionary for Emergency Communication

To facilitate efficient communications, the following procedural words, or "pro-words", were developed for use in emergencies, and by other communicators, such as air traffic controllers.

• AFFIRMATIVE means "Yes" or "I agree" or "Permission granted."
• 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."