All Ships Call; Receiving An All Ships Call - Standard Horizon HX890E Owner's Manual

10.3 ALL SHIPS CALL

The all ships call function allows calls DSC equipped vessels without having
their MMSI in the individual calling directory.

10.3.1 Receiving an All Ships Call

1. When an all ships call is received, an emer-
gency alarm will sound.
The display shows the MMSI of the vessel
transmitting the all ships call and the radio
will change to the requested channel after
30 seconds (the default setting of "15.9
CHANNEL SWITCH TIMER").
2. Press any key to stop the alarm.
3. Monitor the requested channel until the all
ships voice communication is completed.
On the display you will notice 3 soft key selections. These selections are
described below:
ACCEPT: Press this key to accept the DSC all ships call and to switch to
the requested channel.
Note: If a key is not pressed for 30 seconds or longer the radio will
automatically change to the requested channel (the default setting
of "15.9 CHANNEL SWITCH TIMER").
PAUSE: Press this key to temporarily disable automatically switching to
the requested channel.
Note: In some cases, automatically switching to a requested
channel might disrupt important ongoing communications. This
feature allows commercial users to suspend channel switching
and stay on the working channel selected before the all ships
call was received.
QUIT: Press this key to quit the automatic channel switching and revert
to the last selected working channel.
4. Press the [QUIT] key to return to the channel display.
When there is an unread all ships call, the "
the display. You may review the unread all ships call from the DSC
log, refer to the section "10.10.3 Reviewing Other Logged Calls".
RX ALL SHIPS
CATEG:
SINCE:
RX ALL SHIPS
CATEG:
SINCE:
NOTE
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Yaesu
SAFETY
16
CH:
00:15
RX ALL SHIPS
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CATEG:
STOP ALARM
CH:
SINCE:
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SAFETY
ACCEPT
16
CH:
00:15
QUIT
" icon will appear on
Yaesu
SAFETY
16
00:15
PAUSE QUIT
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