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3.4 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 call, 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

Coast

Station

3.4.1 Sending an all ships call

1. Press the CALL key. The display changes from standby display to the

COMPOSE MESSAGE screen and the CALL TYPE is displayed in reverse

video.

2. Press the ENT key to open the call type list.

SHIP CALL

TEST

RELAY ALL

RELAY SEL

DISTRESS

COAST CALL

GROUP CALL

PSTN CALL

ALL SHIPS

POSITION

3. Rotate the CH knob (or press up / down arrow key) to choose ALL SHIPS

and press the ENT key.

4. SAFETY is selected; press the ENT key.

5. Choose SAFETY or URGENCY as appropriate followed by pressing the ENT

key.

6. If you choose SAFETY at above step, choose CH and press the ENT key.

The following window appears.

SELECT CH

MANUAL

If you choose URGENCY, go to step 9.

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