Furuno RC-1800T - Calling; All Ships Call; Sending All Ships Call

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4. CALLING
This chapter provides the information necessary for general calling.
4.1 All Ships Call
When an urgent but not life endangering situation arises on your ship, for example, engine
trouble, send an all ships call to request assistance.
After sending the message, you can communicate by voice over the radiotelephone. Do the
following before beginning actual communications:
URGENCY priority: Say PAN three times followed by your call sign.
SAFETY priority: Say SECURITE three times followed by your call sign.
Own Ship
C oast
Station
4.1.1 Sending all ships call
1. At the DSC standby screen, press the [CALL] key followed by the [ENT] key to display the
CALL TYPE menu.
***
Send MESSAGE
***
STATION ID
PRIORITY
COM. TYPE
COM. FREQ
DSC FREQ
: All ships
: Safety
: Telephone
: 2187.5 kHz
RELAY SEL
POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
DISTRESS
5
CALL TYPE
If this part of the menu
appears, use 5 to scroll
the menu.
PSTN CALL
TEST CALL
ALL SHIPS
GROUP CALL
AREA CALL
POSITION
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INDIVIDUAL
2. Use

or

to select ALL SHIPS and press the [ENT] key.