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5 CALLING, RECEIVING
This chapter provides the information necessary for general calling and receiving.
5.1 All Ships Call
When an urgent but not life-endangering situation arises on your ship, for example, engine
trouble, send an all ships call to request assistance.
After sending the call, you can communicate by voice over the radiotelephone, or send a
message by telex. For telephone, do the following before beginning actual communications:
URGENCY priority: Say PAN three times followed by your call sign.
SAFETY priority: Say SECURITE three times followed by your call sign.
Own Ship
Coast
Station
5.1.1 Sending an all ships call
1. Press the [2/DSC] key followed by pushing the [ENTER] knob to display the CALL TYPE
menu.
**
Compose message
**
STATION ID
PRIORITY
COM. TYPE
COM. FREQ
DSC FREQ
: All ships
: Safety
: Telephone
: 2187.5 kHz
CALL TYPE
PSTN CALL
TEST CALL
ALL SHIPS
GROUP CALL
AREA CALL
POSITION
INDIVIDUAL
POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
RELAY SEL
DISTRESS
Rotate [ENTER]
knob to scroll.
GO
2. Rotate the [ENTER] knob to choose ALL SHIPS and then push the [ENTER] knob.