Barrett 950 HF - Beacon Call; Sending a Beacon Call

Beacon call
Sending a beacon call
The "beacon call" function allows the user to determine the signal quality between two
transceivers fitted with the selcall function.
- select the channel on which to send the beacon call.
- listen for traffic on that channel, if no traffic is heard then continue.
- press the key.
- enter the desired selcall destination ID using the numeric keys. (xx99 for a
660/960 telephone interconnect, where xx is the 660/960 I.D.)
- press the key.
- wait for the beacon call to be sent.
- listen for the beacon revertive tones.
- repeat steps until the channel with the best signal path is found.
Note:- The beacon revertive tones are different to a normal selcall revertive and are a
series of 4 tones.
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