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SENDING A CALL, INFO
Additional information
When calling a coast station select NONE.
When calling another ship select FERQUENCY and key-in the proposed working frequencies.
Note: Transmission is prevented until the channel is free. This feature may be overruled by pressing
Call again.
The duration of an MF/HF DSC call is approx. 10 sec.Following transmission of selective or direct-dial
calls the receiver is set to the DSC RX frequency and awaits an acknowledgement within 5 minutes
for selective calls and 25 seconds for direct-dial calls.
All ships, group and area calls require no acknowledgement. When the transmission is completed the
transceiver is set to the mode and frequencies indicated in the call by pressing ENTER or, for telephony
calls, lifting the handset off hook within 1 minute.
END should be entered when communication is completed. For telephony calls just place the handset
on-hook. The display returns to STATUS or to RX-CALL if not all received calls have been read out
and scanning is resumed on the transceiver if so selected.
DSC OPERATION SENDING A CALL, INFO
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