Furuno RC-1500-1T manual Geographical Area Call, Sending a geographical area call, 4-20

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4.4Geographical Area Call

The geographical area call sends a call to all ships within a specific area you designated in your geographical area call message. In the figure below, for example, the call will be sent to all ships within 10° S and 5° E of 34° N, 135° W.

Reference point 34 N (For example,

34˚N 135˚W)

10˚

24 N

140 W

135 W

 

4.4.1Sending a geographical area call

1.Press the [CALL] key at the DSC standby screen, and press the [ENT] key to open the CALL TYPE menu.

 

*** Send

 

message ***

 

 

 

 

CALL TYPE

 

INDIVIDUAL

 

 

 

PSTN CALL

 

 

STATION ID

 

 

 

 

TEST CALL

 

 

PRIORITY

 

 

 

 

ALL SHIPS

 

 

COM. TYPE

 

GROUP CALL

 

 

COM. FREQ

 

AREA CALL

 

 

 

POSITION6

 

 

DSC FREQ

 

 

 

 

 

If this part of the menu appears5use 5to scroll.

POLLING

NEUTRAL

MEDICAL

RELAY ALL

RELAY SEL

DISTRESS

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

3. Press the [ENT] key to open the AREA menu.

*** Send message ***

 

CALL TYPE

: AREA CALL

 

 

 

--˚N---˚E--˚--˚

 

 

AREA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PRIORITY

 

: ROUTINE

 

 

COM. TYPE

: TELEPHONE

 

COM. FREQ

: NO INFO

 

DSC FREQ

: 2M-INTL

GO TO ALL VIEW

4. Enter latitude, longitude, southerly degrees and easterly degrees of area with the numeric keys and press the [ENT] key. Use or to switch from North to South latitude and vice versa and East to West longitude and vice versa.

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