Time required to reigister your station
Enter your stations name, callsign, answerback, code and selcall number.
Singapore requests your station's name and callsign.
Call operator.

5.7 Communication Example

This section shows how to register your station with a coast station (Singapore), in order to connect with a land line and send mes- sages to other stations.

Contact the coast station following the procedure on page 5-3. Then, register your station's name, call sign, answerback code and selcall number and AAIC (Accounting Authority Identification Code) with the coast station.

You can call the Singapore coast station on ITU channels 809, 821 or 1201 (other channels may also be used). Use communication mode ARQ. The Singapore coast station ID no. is 4620.

Registration procedure

1.Call Singapore coast station following the procedure on page 5-3.

2.Singapore requests your AAIC.

3.Type your AAIC.

4.Singapore asks for your callsign. Send your station's name, callsign, answerback code and selcall number.

5.Singapore sends time required to register your station.

6.Transmit end code.

9VG SERADIO RS

 

 

12345 FURUNO X

 

 

54321 ABCDE J

Exchange answerback codes

 

9VG SERADIO RS

 

MOM

 

 

F

 

Singapore requests your AAIC.

UGOX DE 9VG RGR GA X X PSE SUPPLY YOUR AAIC HW +?

OPR +

AAIC AA01 +?

RGR PSE GIVE YOUR SHIP NAME CALLSGI CALLSIGN HW +? I INTRODUCE MY INFO LATER

PLS AGAIN AAAAAA

CS- 1111

ANSWERBACK CODE- ccccc cccc c AAIC- 9999

SELCALL- 56789 OK HW +?

PSE BE SURE W ICH AAIC CFM PSE HW +? bb01 SO + +?

RGR PSE OFF TX X HERE EEE CALL BACK 2MINS TIME X HERE WILL INPUT YOUR DATA

CU BI HW +?

OK TKS BI BI

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Furuno RC-1500-1T manual Communication Example, Registration procedure

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