All Ships Call; Transmitting An All Ships Call - Standard Horizon ECLIPSE DSC+ GX1200E Owner's Manual

9.4 ALL SHIPS CALL

The all ships call function allows contact to be established with other vessel
stations without having their ID in the individual calling directory. Also, priority
for the call can be designated as "urgency" or "safety".
URGENCY Call: This type of call is used when a vessel may not truly be
SAFETY Call:

9.4.1 Transmitting an All Ships Call

1. Press the
appear.
2. Press the
SHIPS ."
3. Press the
press the
4. Press the
call (" SAFETY " or " URGENCY "), then
press the
5. Press the
operating channel you want to commu-
nicate on, then press the
key.
6. Press the
transmit the selected call type of all
ships call.
7. After the all ships call is transmitted, the
transceiver will switch to the channel
which selected on the step 5 above,
with no change of the display. To change
the display, press the
GX1200E
in distress, but has a potential problem that may lead to a
distress situation. This call is the same as saying "PAN PAN,
PAN PAN, PAN PAN" on channel 16.
This type of call is used to transmit boating safety informa-
tion to other vessels. This message usually contains infor-
mation about an overdue boat, debris in the water, loss of a
navigation aid or an important meteorological message. This
call is the same as saying "Securite, Securite, Securite."
key. The " DSC MENU " will
keys to select " ALL
/
soft key. (To cancel,
soft key)
/ keys to select the
soft key.
/ keys to select the
soft key again to
INDIVIDUAL
GROUP
ALL SHIPS
SAFETY
URGENCY
soft
SAFETY
TRANSMIT?
SAFETY
CH: 16 0:01
soft key.
-DSC MENU-
-DSC MENU-
INDIVIDUAL
GROUP
ALL SHIPS
-CATEGORY-
-SELECT CH-
16
06
08
-ALL SHIPS-
-ALL SHIPS-
SAFETY
CH: 16
TRANSMITTING
-ALL SHIPS-
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