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Sending calls

HF SSB transceiver user guide 4-29

Selective beacon call

Selective beacon calls help you determine manually the best

channel to use before calling a station to talk or send

information.

You can send selective beacon calls if any selective call

option is fitted in your transceiver.

You usually send several selective beacon calls before

deciding which channel to use for sending a GPS call, page

call, selcall, status call or telcall.

When you send a selective beacon call, the receiving station

acknowledges your call by sending a beacon revertive signal

consisting of four long beeps. You compare the quality of the

revertive signals to decide which is the best channel to use for

communication.

Selective beacon calls allow you to check channel conditions

without disturbing stations in your network by frequent test

calls. A transceiver receiving a selective beacon call does not

record the call or alert the operator.

For older transceivers incapable of responding to selective

beacon calls, send a 99-beacon call instead. To send a

99-beacon call, send a selcall but change the last two digits of

the address to 99. The station you are calling needs to be set

up to respond to 99-beacon calls.

Before you can send a selective beacon call, you need to

set up:

• your address (refer to the HF SSB transceiver reference

manual, Chapter 8, Selcall address setup)

• a channel for selcalling (refer to the HF SSB transceiver

reference manual, Chapter 3, Channel creation and

editing).