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Old December 30th, 2008, 20:19   #2
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Not bad Mad, but I do have one small critique...using the term, "call xx" is improper radio phraseology. During first establishment of a contact, correct procedure is to first identify the called station followed by the words, "This is..." and then the calling station's id. For subsequent calls of the same conversation, you can drop the "this is..." part but you still have to identify called station followed by calling station. So assuming your are X (X-ray) and the station you are calling is Y (Yankee), the proper radio phraseology for starting a contact would go something like this:
"Yankee this is X-ray. Over."
"X-ray, this is Yankee. Go ahead."
Scenario 1:
X-ray delivers message and if no further acknowledgement is required, ends transmission with the words "X-ray, out".
ie. "Yankee, X-ray. EOD team required at north building in One Zero minutes. X-ray, out"
Scenario 2:
If further acknowledgements or traffic is required, X-ray ends with the word "over", and comms continue until desired conclusion where it's ended by the last one speaking identifying themselves and using the term "out". Also, for acknowledgements the terms "Roger" or "Affirmative" are interchangeable as desired and are both correct phraseology.
Building upon the above example, here's how a possible contact-request-signoff would go:
Yankee this is X-ray. Over.
X-ray, this is Yankee. Go ahead.
Yankee, X-ray. Confirm EOD team required at north building in One Zero minutes. Over.
X-ray, Yankee. Roger, EOD team required at north building in One Zero minutes. Yankee, out.

Otherwise, I think your primer is a very good intro to comms-101.



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