Receiving An All Ships Call - Standard Horizon HX870 Owner's Manual

10.4.2 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 15
seconds (the default setting of "CH 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
requested channel.
Note: If a key is not pressed for 15 seconds or longer the radio will automati-
cally change to the requested channel (the default setting of "CH SWITCH
TIMER").
[PAUSE]: Press this key to temporarily disable automatic switching to the
requested channel.
Note: In some cases automatically switching to a requested channel might
disrupt important ongoing communications. This feature allows commer-
cial 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, "
display. You may review the unread all ships call from the DSC log,
refer to the section "10.13.3 Reviewing Other Logged Calls".
HX870
RX ALL SHIPS
CATEG:
SINCE:
RX ALL SHIPS
CATEG:
SINCE:
NOTE
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STOP ALARM
CH:
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QUIT
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