Before I could resume, the other station picked up with a full transmission of his own. I remember one time I attempted to use this WAIT sign for a momentary interruption of sending to grab my pencil off the floor and was in mid-story when I stopped sending.
It is not a cessation of transmission which should be looked upon as a time for the other station to begin a full transmission! The sending operator will resume within half-a-minute’s time or less. Life happens, and the sending operator has either been interrupted by a family member’s question or may want to check or adjust something on the station equipment or lean over to pick something up the possibilities are endless. The receiving operator should just send “R” to “roger” the Wait signal and stand by. Your browser does not support the audio element.ĪS, made of the letters A and S run together as one character, means, “Wait.” It indicates a brief pause in sending, and sending will resume in a moment.
