Chapter 2: Operation
DSC calls 21
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DSC calls
In this section of the manual you find information on:
• Own Distress — sending, acknowledging and canceling
• Sending a Distress from the SAILOR 6103 Multi Alarm Panel
• DROBOS — Distress relay on behalf of someone else
• Receiving Distress calls
• DSC calls
• Printing DSC calls
• Sessions in the MF/HF radio
• Handling multiple calls — DSC and voice
• Geographical area calls
Some important words have a different meaning in DSC
sessions compared to the BAM system.
Alert:
• In a DSC session an alert is a distress signal sent out
over the air.
• In the BAM system, an alert is a ship-internal message
from connected equipment bringing important issues
to your attention on the bridge.
Acknowledge
• In a DSC session, a DSC call needs to be
acknowledged by the receiving end. See Own Distress
— sending, acknowledging and canceling on
page 22.
• In the BAM system, you acknowledge that you have
seen an alert, but the acknowledgment is ship-
internal.
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