Geographical Area Call; Sending A Geographical Area Call - Furuno DSC-60 Operator's Manual

4.4

Geographical Area Call

The geographical area call sends a call to all ships within a specific area you designated in your
geographical area call message. In the figure below, for example, the call will be sent to all ships
within 10 S and 5 E of 34 N, 135 W.
4.4.1

Sending a geographical area call

1. Press the [CALL] key at the DSC standby screen, and press the [ENT] key to open the CALL
TYPE menu.
Send message
***
INDIVIDUAL
: Individual
CALL TYPE
PSTN CALL
: 001234567
STATION ID
TEST CALL
: Routine
PRIORITY
ALL SHIPS
GROUP CALL
: Telephone
COM. TYPE
AREA CALL
: No inform
COM. FREQ
$
POSITION
: 12M-INTEL
DSC FREQ
2. Use or to select AREA CALL and press the [ENT] key.
3. Press the [ENT] key to open the AREA menu.
Send message
***
CALL TYPE : AREA CALL
-- ---
AREA
˚N
: ROUTINE
PRIORITY
: TELEPHONE
COM. TYPE
: NO INFO
COM. FREQ
: 2M-INTL
DSC FREQ
GO TO ALL VIEW
4. Enter latitude, longitude, southerly degrees and easterly degrees of area with the numeric
keys and press the [ENT] key. Use
versa and East to West longitude and vice versa.
4-20
Reference point
(For example,
34˚N 135˚W)
If this part of the menu
***
appears use
RELAY SEL
***
-- --
˚E ˚ ˚
5˚
140 W 135 W
#
to scroll.
#
POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
DISTRESS
or to switch from North to South latitude and vice
34 N
10˚
24 N