Reference Manual

Making and receiving calls
190 2110 SSB Transceiver Reference Manual
Receiving a call
There are two ways you can receive a call. You can listen to a channel and respond when
you hear a voice, or you can wait until an alert tone notifies you of a call addressed to
your station. This section covers receiving calls addressed to your station.
When you receive a call addressed to your station, the transceiver sounds an audible alert
tone, displays an incoming call screen, if permitted, and creates an entry in the Calls In
Log.
The call alert
The call alert varies according to the type of call received. For Message, Phone, Selective
and Send Position calls it continues for about 10 seconds then changes to a series of pips
until you press a key. For Emergency calls it continues for 5 minutes then changes to a
series of pips.
NOTE
These events do not occur when you receive a Channel Test, Get Position,
or Get Status call as the transceiver automatically responds to these calls.
Table 21: Call types and alert tones
Call type Alert tone sounds like...
Emergency heehaw, heehaw, heehaw
Message pip, pip, pip, pip, pip
Phone a telephone ringing
Selective a telephone ringing
Send Position pip, pip, pip, pip, pip
Group calls:
Emergency calls
all other calls
heehaw, heehaw, heehaw
beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep
NOTE
If you want to switch off the audible alert tone when a call is received, set
the Cfg Alert Tones entry in the Control List to Disabled (see page 110,
Logging into admin level from user level and page 200, Entries in the
Control List).