How about "pulse tone" or "tone pulse" or the shortest would be "beep" 
-- hard to get below 4 letters.

Jack


Vitaliy wrote:
> Philip Pemberton wrote:
>   
>> Beeping, alternating (as in 'alternating between on and off')...
>>     
>
> The trouble is, the device uses different beeps to indicate different 
> conditions (three long beeps indicate a successful connection).
>
> Jack Smith wrote:
>   
>> "Pulsing alert tone" or "interrupted alert tone" would describe the
>> aural signal.
>>     
>
> Too wordy, space is tight. :(
>
> How about:
>
> Flickering "Not Ready" LED, rapid beeping
>
> ? 
>
>   
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