Geographical Area Call; Sending A Geographical Area Call - Furuno FS-1570 Operator's Manual

5.4 Geographical Area Call

The geographical area call is for sending a call to all ships within the area you designate in
your geographical area call. In the figure below, for example, the call will be sent to all ships
within 24-34°N, 135-140°W.

5.4.1 Sending a geographical area call

1. Press the [2/DSC] key and then push the [ENTER] knob to open the CALL TYPE menu.
Compose message
**
INDIVIDUAL
PSTN CALL
: All ships
CALL TYPE
TEST CALL
: Safety
STATION ID
ALL SHIPS
: Telephone
PRIORITY
GROUP CALL
: 2187.5 kHz
COM. TYPE
AREA CALL
$
COM. FREQ
POSITION
DSC FREQ
2. Rotate the [ENTER] knob to choose AREA CALL and then push the [ENTER] knob.
3. Push the [ENTER] knob to open the AREA menu.
Compose message
**
CALL TYPE : AREA CALL
°
AREA 00 N 000
: ROUTINE
PRIORITY
: TELEPHONE
COM. TYPE
: NO INFO
COM. FREQ
: 2M-INTL
DSC FREQ
GO TO ALL VIEW
4. Using the numeric keys, enter latitude and longitude of reference point and southerly
degrees and easterly degrees of area and then push the [ENTER] knob.
Reference point
(For example,
° °
34 N 140 W)
140
**
**
E ↓ 00 → 00
° ° °
°
5
°
° W 135 W
Rotate [ENTER] knob to scroll.
POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
RELAY SEL
DISTRESS
5. CALLING, RECEIVING
°
34 N
10 °
24 ° N
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