Receiving An All Ships Call - Standard Horizon GX2200 Owner's Manual

9.4.2 Receiving an All Ships Call

1. When an all ships call is received, an emergency
alarm will sound.
The display shows the MMSI of the vessel trans-
mitting the all ships call and the radio will change
to the requested channel after 10 seconds.
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 selec-
tions. These selections are described below:
: Press this key to accept the DSC all
ships call and to switch to requested channel.
Note: If a key is not pressed for 30 seconds or longer the radio will auto-
matically change to the requested channel.
: Press this key to temporarily disable automatic switching to the
requested channel.
Note: In some cases automatically switching to a requested chan-
nel might disrupt import 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.
: Press this key to quit the automatic channel switching and revert
to the last selected working channel.
4. Press the
When there is an unread all ships call, "
display. You may review the unread all ships call from the DSC log,
refer to the section "9.13.3 Reviewing Other Logged Calls."
GX2200
key to return to the channel display.
NOTE
Received All Ships
Name:Horizon
ID:123456789
Category:Safety
CH: 06
Since: 01:03
ACCEPT PAUSE
Received All Ships
Name:Horizon
ID:123456789
Category:Safety
CH: 06
Since: 01:03
" icon will appear on the
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