Table 1-4.—Frequently Used PMSV Radiotelephone Prowords and Meanings

Table 1-4.—Frequently Used PMSV Radiotelephone Prowords and Meanings ACKNOWLEDGE ALL AFTER CORRECT CORRECTION FIGURES I SPELL OUT OVER ROGER SAY AGAIN THIS IS TIME WAIT WAIT, OUT WILCO An instruction to the receiver that the transmission must be acknowledged. Reference all of a transmission after the word or phrase given. What you have transmitted is correct. I have made an error and the correct information follows. Numerals or numbers follow. The next word will be spelled out phonetically. This is the end of the transmission, no reply is expected. This is the end of my transmission at this time, your reply is necessary. I have received your transmission satisfactorily. Repeat the last transmission. This transmission is from the station whose call sign immediately follows. That which immediately follows is the date-time group of the message. I must pause for a few seconds. I must pause longer than a few seconds and will recontact you by call sign. I have received your signal, understand it, and will comply. Since the meaning of ROGER is included in that of WILCO, the two prowords are never used together. WRONG Your last transmission is incorrect; the correct version follows. unparen ( ) ), slant ( / ), quote or unquote ( " ), hyphen (- in a hyphenated word), colon (:), semicolon (;), and dash (-) when used between numbers or letters and numbers. Numbers are always pronounced as follows: ZE-ro, Wun, Too, Tree, FOW-er, Fife, Six, SEV-en, Ait, and NIN-er. Letters are always pronounced, when spelling out a word, by using the ICAO international phonetic alphabet (AL-fah, BRAH-VOH, CHAR-lee, etc.). You studied the international phonetic alphabet in the Basic Military Requirements training manual, and a copy is provided on the first or second page of each DOD FLIP IFR Supplement. therefore classified, the PMSV operator must have access to the ship’s latest observations and TAFs. The ship’s TAF, by itself, is usually not classified since it does not provide the ship’s position. Weather observers, even in nonsecure work areas, may obtain and keep a sanitized copy of the ship’s observation and forecast handy for ready reference. A sanitized copy means that the ship’s name, all references to locations, and message routing indicators have been deleted. When passing U.S. Navy ship weather updates to aircraft via PMSV, do not mention the ship’s position or Pilots transiting from coastal air stations to U.S. naval ships operating off the coast commonly call via PMSV for updates on the latest observation and forecast for "USS SHIP." Since relating the name of a U.S. naval ship to its location, or even the fact that a certain ship is operating in the area is usually classified, the pilot may not ask for the weather for the ship by name. It is essential that military observers or, at least, the duty forecaster keep informed of the naval ships operating within their area of responsibility (AOR). Additionally, although the weather observations from the ships contain the ship’s location and identification, and are the name of the ship. Also, do not discuss expected arrival time of the aircraft at the ship, since this would give hostile forces a good estimate of the ship’s distance from shore. Rest assured, the pilot can find the ship and knows within minutes when his aircraft will be arriving. You may have to read an entire TAF forecast over the radio to prevent giving away the flight duration. In addition to the communication systems we have just discussed, several communications systems or subsystems are designed especially for shipboard or mobile operations. Some of the systems are intended primarily for environmental communications, while 1-27