4-4
4.2 Individual 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.
Coast
Station
Own Ship
DSC Message [Called Acknowledge
Request (ACK RQ) Signal]
Acknowledge Back (ACK BQ) Signal
Voice Communication
3
2
1
2
1
3
4.2.1 Sending individual call
1. At the DSC standby screen, press the [CALL] key followed by the [ENT] key to open the
CALL TYPE menu.
POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
RELAY SEL
DISTRESS
STATION ID
PRIORITY
COM. TYPE
COM. FREQ
DSC FREQ
: INDIVIDUAL
: ---------
: ROUTINE
: TELEPHONE
: NO INFOR
: 2M-INTL
GO TO ALL VIEW
***
Send message
***
CALL TYPE
If this part of the menu appears
use to scroll menu.
INDIVIDUAL
PSTN CALL
TEST CALL
ALL SHIPS
GROUP CALL
AREA CALL
POSITION
2. Use
or
to select INDIVIDUAL and press the [ENT] key.
3. Press the [ENT] key to open the STATION ID menu.
CALL TYPE
PRIORITY
COM. TYPE
COM. FREQ : NO INFO
DSC FREQ
: INDIVIDUAL
: ROUTINE
: TELEPHONE
: 2M-INTL
GO TO ALL VIEW
***
Send message
***
:
STATION ID
:
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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.
2. Select COAST STATION or SHIP STATION and
press the [ENT] key.
3. Select file which contains ID you want to use
(press
to show ID number).
4. Press the [ENT] key to insert ID number in message.
Select ID file
COAST STATION
SHIP STATION
Note: You can print the
Select ID file list by pressing
the [8/PRINT] key.