Break Tags
| Answer | To be used when you have the definitive answer to a question currently being discussed on the air. |
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| Question | To be used when the answer of a question can’t wait; for example; when the mayor is standing next to you and requesting you to get information using your radio. |
| Info | To be used when information needs to be transmitted rapidly but is not related to what is being said on the air. For example, if an event that net control needs to know about is going to happen in the next few seconds or if waiting for the end of an exchange will negate the value of the information. |
| Priority | To be used to report an important, but not a life threatening situation such as a fender bender that just happened. |
| Medical | To be used to report a minor medical incident that affects the operator in some way; for example, having to leave his/her post for a few minutes to walk someone with a minor cut over to a med tent. |
| Emergency | this is only to be used to report an ongoing life, property, threatening or damaging incident. |
| Your Call Sign | This is an indication that the operator has traffic which can wait, and does not require the cessation of the ongoing exchange. This tag is an expectation to be put on hold and in queue for transmission. |
updated February 20, 2010