4.2Individual Call

The individual call is for sending a message to a specific station. After sending an individual message, called ACK RQ transmission, wait to receive the acknowledge back (ACK BQ) signal from the receiving station.

Own Ship

1

2

3

1DSC Message [Called Acknowledge Request (ACK RQ) Signal]

2Acknowledge Back (ACK BQ) Signal

3Voice Communication

Coast

Station

4.2.1Sending individual call

1. At the DSC standby screen, press the [CALL] key followed by the [ENT] key to open the

CALL TYPE menu.

5￿

*** Send

CALL TYPE

STATION ID PRIORITY COM. TYPE COM. FREQ

DSC FREQ

INDIVIDUAL

PSTN CALL TEST CALL ALL SHIPS GROUP CALL AREA CALL POSITION6

If this part of the menu appears use 5to scroll menu.

POLLING

NEUTRAL

MEDICAL

RELAY ALL

RELAY SEL

DISTRESS

2. Use or to select INDIVIDUAL and press the [ENT] key.

3. Press the [ENT] key to open the STATION ID menu.

*** Send message ***

CALL TYPE

- - - - - - - - -

STATION ID

PRIORITY

: ROUTINE

COM. TYPE

: TELEPHONE

COM. FREQ

: NO INFO

DSC FREQ

: 2M-INTL

GO TO ALL VIEW

How to input station ID automatically

If you have registered some station IDs (see page 6-1), you can insert them into your message as follows:

1.Press the [FILE] key after completing step 2 in the above procedure. The following display appears.

Select ID file

Note: You can print the

COAST STATION

Select ID file list by pressing

SHIP STATION

the [8/PRINT] key.

 

 

2.Select COAST STATION or SHIP STATION and press the [ENT] key.

3.Select file which contains ID you want to use (press 4to show ID number).

4.Press the [ENT] key to insert ID number in message.

4-4

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