Specifications
E-56
Type of Message
Appropriate Channel(s)
DISTRESS SAFETY AND CALLING
- Use this channel to get the attention
of another station (calling) or in emergencies (distress and safety).
16
INTERSHIP SAFETY
- Use this channel for ship-to-ship safety messages
and for search & rescue messages and ships and aircraft of the Coast
Guard.
6
COAST GUARD LIAISON
- Use this channel to talk to the Coast Guard
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22
NON-COMMERCIAL
- Working channels for voluntary boats. Messages
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rendezvous, scheduling repairs and berthing information. Use Channels 67
and 72 only for ship-to-ship messages.
96, 68, 69, 71, 72,
78, 794, 804, 677.
COMMERCIAL
- Working channels for working ships only. Messages must
be about business or the needs of the ship. Use channels 8, 67, 72 and 88
only for ship-to-ship messages.
15, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11,
18, 19, 635, 677, 79,
80, 881
PUBLIC CORRESPONDENCE (MARINE OPERATOR)
- Use these
channels to call the marine operator at a public coast station. By contacting
a public coast station, you can make and receive calls from telephones on
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service.
24, 25, 26, 27, 28,
84, 85, 86, 87, 882
PORT OPERATIONS
- These channels are used in directing the movement
of ships in or near ports, locks or waterways. Messages must be about
the operational handling movement and safety of ships. In certain major
ports, Channels 11,12 and are not available for general port operations
messages. Use channel 20 only for ship-to-coast messages. Channel 77 is
limited to intership communications to and from pilots
15, 53, 12, 14, 20,
635, 65, 66, 73, 74,
77
NAVIGATIONAL
- (Also known as the bridge-to-bridge channel.) This
channel is available to all ships. Messages must be about ship navigation,
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es short. Your power output must not be more than one watt. This is also
the main working channel at most locks and drawbridges.
13, 67
MARITIME CONTROL
- This channel may be used to talk to ships and
coast stations operated by state or local governments. Messages must
pertain to regulation and control, boating activities, or assistance to ships.
17
DIGITAL SELECTIVE CALLING
- Use this channel for distress and safety
calling and for general purpose calling using only DSC techniques.
70
WEATHER
- On these channels you may receive weather broadcasts of
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. These channels are
only for receiving. You cannot transmit on them.
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Notes:
Not available in the Great Lakes, St. Lawrence Seaway, or the Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de
Fuca and its approaches.
Only for use In the Great Lakes, St Lawrence Seaway, and Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de
Fuca and its approaches.
Available only In the Houston and New Orleans areas.
Available only in the Great Lakes.
Available only In the New Orleans area.
Available for Intership, ship, and coast general purpose calling by noncommercial ships.
Available only In the Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
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Channel and frequencies
Table 10 - Channel by type of message
Summary of Contents for VHF650
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