If an error in a message is not discovered until the
operator is some distance beyond the error, the operator
may make the correction at the end of the message.
Lets assume that Key is communicating with Polk.
During Keys transmission, Key makes a mistake in the
time group but the mistake is not discovered until near
the end of the transmission. The procedure Key would
make to correct the mistake is:
Polk, THIS IS Key, TIME Zero Eight Two Four
Zulu, BREAK, Request Status Deep Dive, BREAK,
CORRECTION, TIME Zero Eight Two Five Zulu,
OVER.
REPETITIONS
When words are missed or cannot be determined,
stations may request repetitions before receipting for
obtaining repetitions are SAY AGAIN, ALL BEFORE,
ALL AFTER, WORD BEFORE, WORD AFTER, and
TO. For example, in the previous message from Key to
Polk, assume that Polk missed the entire message after
that portion of the message would be:
Key, THIS IS Polk, SAY AGAIN ALL AFTER
Request, OVER.
Key would then reply:
THIS IS Key, I SAY AGAIN ALL AFTER
RequestStatus Deep Dive, BREAK, OVER.
Upon satisfactory receipt, Polk would send:
THIS IS Polk, ROGER, OUT.
the message. The prowords most often used for
the word Request. Polk's request for a repetition for
This same procedure applies for the proword ALL
BEFORE.
The repetition procedure is also used when a station
requests that a particular word be repeated. This is done
by using either of the prowords WORD AFTER or
WORD BEFORE. For example:
Key, THIS IS Polk, SAY AGAIN WORD AFTER
Status, OVER.
Key then replies:
THIS IS Key, I SAY AGAIN WORD AFTER
Status-Deep, OVER.
The WORD BEFORE procedure would be
accomplished in the same way by simply substituting
the prowords.
The use of the proword TO is as follows:
Key, THIS IS Polk, SAY AGAIN Request TO
Dive, OVER.
Key would then reply:
THIS IS Key, I SAY AGAIN Request TO
DiveRequest Status Deep Dive, OVER.
Upon satisfactory receipt, Polk would reply:
THIS IS Polk, ROGER, OUT.
An important rule to remember is that when you
request repetitions in the heading of an R/T message
containing FROM, TO, INFO, or EXEMPT addressees,
the prowords are the key to the repetition procedures.
Repetitions may be requested for all of that portion of
the heading preceding or following a proword or that
portion between any two prowords. For example, Key
sends the following message to Polk:
Polk, THIS IS Key, MESSAGE, PRIORITY,
TIME, Zero Eight Zero Nine Three Zero Zulu,
FROM Key, TO Polk, INFO Tecumseh, BREAK,
Proceed Naval Underwater Sound Laboratories,
Rendezvous SAQAD, I SPELL, Sierra, Alfa,
Quebec, Alfa, Delta, SAQAD, Representative,
BREAK, OVER.
Polk misses the portion of the message before the
address and sends:
Key, THIS IS Polk, SAY AGAIN ALL BEFORE
FROM, OVER.
Key then sends:
Polk, THIS IS Key, I SAY AGAIN ALL BEFORE
FROMPolk, THIS IS Key, MESSAGE,
PRIORITY, TIME, Zero Eight Zero Nine Three
Zero Zulu, OVER.
Upon understanding the missing portion, Polk sends:
Key, THIS IS Polk, ROGER, OUT.
This same procedure can be applied to all repetition
prowords. An important point for you to remember is
that requests for repetition must include those portions
of the heading before, after, or between the applicable
prowords.
CANCELING MESSAGES
Before the ending proword OVER or OUT is sent, a
station can cancel a message transmission by using the
proword DISREGARD THIS TRANSMISSION,
OUT. For example, if Key should realize, while sending
a message, that the message is being sent in error, Key
would cancel the transmission as follows:
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