Ah. That's what it kind of seemed like. I just recently began listening to MWARA, after going through a half-dozen different HF antenna setups. It finally took a 8-foot tall stainless-steel antenna mounted on a 9-foot tower to do it.
That also explains what the rest of the "stand by for..." was. I was thinking it was "cell call", but I guess it's "stand by for SELCAL".