Standard Horizon PHANTOM PS1000, Owner'S Manual

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11 DIGITAL SELECTIVE CALLING
11.1 GENERAL
WARNING
This radio is designed to generate a digital maritime distress and safety
call to facilitate search and rescue. To be effective as a safety device,
this equipment must be used only within communication range of a shore-
based VHF marine channel 70 distress and safety watch system. The
range of signal may vary but under normal conditions should be approxi-
mately 20 nautical miles.
NOTE
A DSC Warning sticker is included
with the
Phantom PS1000 . To com-
ply with FCC regulations this sticker
must be mounted in a location that can
be easily viewed from the location of
the
CMP25 RAM+ Microphone. Make
sure the chosen location is clean and
dry before applying the sticker.
Digital Selective Calling is a semi-automated method of establishing a radio
call, it has been designated by the International Maritime Organization (IMO)
as an international standard for establishing VHF, MF and HF radio calls. It has
also been designated as part of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety Sys-
tem (GMDSS). It is planned that DSC will eventually replace aural watches on
distress frequencies and will be used to announce routine and urgent maritime
safety information broadcasts.
This new system allows mariners to instantly send a distress call with GPS posi-
tion (when connected to the transceiver) to the Coast Guard and other vessels
within range of the transmission.
Phantom PS1000 will allow mariners to initiate
Individual Routine, Group Routine, All Ship Urgency, All Ship Safety, Position Re-
quest, and Position Send to another vessel equipped with a DSC transceiver and
receive Distress, Urgency, Safety, Routine, Position Request, and Position Send
calls from another vessel equipped with a DSC transceiver.
WARNING
STICKER