Calling, Receiving; All Ships Call; Sending An All Ships Call - Furuno FS-1570 Operator's Manual

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CALLING, RECEIVING

This chapter provides the information necessary for general calling and receiving.

5.1 All Ships Call

When an urgent but not life-endangering situation arises on your ship, for example, engine
trouble, send an all ships call to request assistance.
After sending the call, you can communicate by voice over the radiotelephone, or send a
message by telex. For telephone, do the following before beginning actual communications:
URGENCY priority: Say PAN three times followed by your call sign.
SAFETY priority: Say SECURITE three times followed by your call sign.

5.1.1 Sending an all ships call

1. Press the [2/DSC] key followed by pushing the [ENTER] knob to display 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 ALL SHIPS and then push the [ENTER] knob.
Own Ship
Rotate [ENTER] knob to scroll.
**
POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
RELAY SEL
DISTRESS
Coast
Station
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