4-4
4.2 Individual Call
The individual call is for sending a message to a specific station. After sending an individual
message, called ACK RQ transmission, wait to receive the acknowledge back (ACK BQ) signal
from the receiving station.
Coast
Station
Own Ship
DSC Message [Called Acknowledge
Request (ACK RQ) Signal]
Acknowledge Back (ACK BQ) Signal
Voice Communication
3
2
1
2
1
3
4.2.1 Sending individual call
1. At the DSC standby screen, press the [CALL] key followed by the [ENT] key to open the
CALL TYPE menu.
5

POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
RELAY SEL
DISTRESS
STATION ID
PRIORITY
COM. TYPE
COM. FREQ
DSC FREQ
: INDIVIDUAL
: ---------
: ROUTINE
: TELEPHONE
: NO INFOR
: 2M-INTL
GO TO ALL VIEW
***
Send message
***
CALL TYPE
If this part of the menu appears
use
5
to scroll menu.
INDIVIDUAL
PSTN CALL
TEST CALL
ALL SHIPS
GROUP CALL
AREA CALL
POSITION
6
2. Use

or

to select INDIVIDUAL and press the [ENT] key.
3. Press the [ENT] key to open the STATION ID menu.
CALL TYPE
PRIORITY
COM. TYPE
COM. FREQ : NO INFO
DSC FREQ
: INDIVIDUAL
: ROUTINE
: TELEPHONE
: 2M-INTL
GO TO ALL VIEW
***
Send message
***
:
STATION ID
:
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How to input station ID automatically
If you have registered some station IDs (see page 6-1),
you can insert them into your message as follows:
1. Press the [FILE] key after completing step 2 in the
above procedure. The following display appears.
2. Select COAST STATION or SHIP STATION and
press the [ENT] key.
3. Select file which contains ID you want to use
(press
4
to show ID number).
4. Press the [ENT] key to insert ID number in message.
Select ID file
COAST STATION
SHIP STATION
Note: You can print the
Select ID file list by pressing
the [8/PRINT] key.