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

5 CALLING, RECEIVING
Receiving message by NBDP Terminal Unit
After receiving a neutral craft call, do the following to watch by NBDP Terminal Unit.
1. The display shows "OCCUPIED" and the TX and RX frequencies.
2. The message from the sending station appears on your NBDP Terminal Unit.

5.7 Polling Call

Polling means confirming if own station is within communicating range with other station.
This function only provides affirmative or negative response; it does not provide position
information. Note that simultaneous polling to more than one station is not possible.

5.7.1 Sending a polling call

1. Press the [2/DSC] key followed by pushing the [ENTER] knob to open the CALL TYPE
menu.
Compose message
**
INDIVIDUAL
: All ships
CALL TYPE
PSTN CALL
TEST CALL
: Safety
STATION ID
ALL SHIPS
: Telephone
PRIORITY
GROUP CALL
: 2187.5 kHz
COM. TYPE
AREA CALL
COM. FREQ
$
POSITION
DSC FREQ
GO
2. Rotate the [ENTER] knob to choose POLLING and then push the [ENTER] knob.
3. Push the [ENTER] knob to open the STATION ID menu.
Compose message
**
: POLLING
CALL TYPE
: ---------
STATION ID
: ROUTINE
PRIORITY
DSC FREQ : 2M-INTL
GO TO ALL VIEW
4. Key in ID of station with the numeric keys and then push the [ENTER] knob.
5. Push the [ENTER] knob to open the PRIORITY menu.
5-28
**
Rotate [ENTER]
knob to scroll.
**
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 Polling
2 Acknowledge
3 Polling
4 Acknowledge
$
POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
RELAY SEL
DISTRESS