Individual Call; Sending Individual Call - Furuno DSC-60 Operator's Manual

4.2

Individual Call

The individual call is for sending a message to a specific station. After sending an individual
message, called ACK RQ transmission, wait to receive the acknowledge back (ACK BQ) signal
from the receiving station.
4.2.1

Sending individual call

1. At the DSC standby screen, press the [CALL] key followed by the [ENT] key to open the
CALL TYPE menu.
Send message
***
INDIVIDUAL
: INDIVIDUAL
CALL TYPE
PSTN CALL
TEST CALL
: ---------
STATION ID
ALL SHIPS
: ROUTINE
PRIORITY
GROUP CALL
: TELEPHONE
COM. TYPE
AREA CALL
: NO INFOR
COM. FREQ
$
POSITION
: 2M-INTL
DSC FREQ
GO TO ALL VIEW
2. Use or to select INDIVIDUAL and press the [ENT] key.
3. Press the [ENT] key to open the STATION ID menu.
Send message
***
: INDIVIDUAL
CALL TYPE
- - - - - - - - -
:
STATION ID
: ROUTINE
PRIORITY
: TELEPHONE
COM. TYPE
COM. FREQ : NO INFO
: 2M-INTL
DSC FREQ
GO TO ALL VIEW
4-4
DSC Message [Called Acknowledge
1
Request (ACK RQ) Signal]
Acknowledge Back (ACK BQ) Signal
2
Own Ship
Voice Communication
3
If this part of the menu appears
***
use
#
POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
RELAY SEL
DISTRESS
How to input station ID automatically
***
If you have registered some station IDs (see page 6-1),
:
you can insert them into your message as follows:
1. Press the [FILE] key after completing step 2 in the
above procedure. The following display appears.
COAST STATION
SHIP STATION
2. Select COAST STATION or SHIP STATION and
press the [ENT] key.
3. Select file which contains ID you want to use
(press
4. Press the [ENT] key to insert ID number in message.
1
2
3
#
to scroll menu.
Select ID file
Note: You can print the
Select ID file list by pressing
the [8/PRINT] key.
"
to show ID number).
Coast
Station