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

5 CALLING, RECEIVING

5.6 Medical Transport Call

The medical transport call informs all ships, by urgency priority, that own ship carries
medical supplies.

5.6.1 Sending a medical transport call

1. Press the [2/DSC] key and then push 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 MEDICAL and then push the [ENTER] knob.
Note: PRIORITY is automatically selected to URGENCY.
3. Push the [ENTER] knob to open the COM. TYPE menu.
4. Rotate the [ENTER] knob to choose communication type desired (radiotelephone and
NBDP-FEC) and then push the [ENTER] knob.
5. Push the [ENTER] knob to open the DSC FREQ menu.
Compose message
**
2187.5
: Medical
CALL TYPE
4207.5
transport
6312.0
: Urgency
PRIORITY
8414.5
12577.0
: Telephone
COM. TYPE
16804.5
DSC FREQ
GO TO ALL VIEW
6. Rotate the [ENTER] knob to choose appropriate frequency and then push the [ENTER]
knob. The display changes as below.
Compose message
**
CALL TYPE : MEDICAL
TRANSPORT
PRIORITY : URGENCY
COM. TYPE : TELEPHONE
DSC FREQ :
GO TO ALL VIEW
7. Press the [CALL] key to send the call (transmission time: about seven seconds). The
display shows "Medical transport call in progress!" while the call is being sent.
5-26
**
Rotate [ENTER]
knob to scroll.
**
:2187.5 KHZ
VIEW
**
2187.5 KHZ
$
POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
RELAY SEL
DISTRESS