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Sending calls

HF SSB transceiver user guide 4-7

Emergency selcall

An emergency selcall is a simple and automatic way of

selectively calling any station in an emergency.

An emergency selcall:

• saves you from having to select channels and addresses

when sending the call since this information is preset

• alerts the operator of the other station by a special

emergency alarm

• automatically sends your GPS position if your station is

set up for GPS (see GPS position call on page 4-16).

If you do not set up any emergency channels, you will need to

select the channel at the time of sending the call.

If you set up more than one emergency channel, the

transceiver will send calls on successive emergency channels

until a call has been sent once on each channel or you stop

the calling process by pressing the

PTT

button.

Before you can send an emergency selcall, you need to:

• set up your address (refer to the HF SSB transceiver

reference manual, Chapter 8, Selcall address setup)

• set up the address to call and up to four emergency

channels to be used (refer to the HF SSB transceiver

reference manual, Chapter 6, Emergency Selcall

transmit setup)

• make sure that the station you are calling is set up for

receiving emergency selcalls.