User's Manual

CALL TYPES AND FEATURES
CALL TYPES
402 ENVOY™ TRANSCEIVER REFERENCE MANUAL
Related links:
Making a Channel Test call on page 75
MIL-STD-188-141B ALE on page 133
Selecting information to be shown in a status area on page 57
Emergency call
If you want to trigger an emergency alert tone at a particular station and speak with an
operator, make an Emergency call. If the GPS Call option is installed in the
transceiver and you have a GPS receiver connected and selected as a peripheral
device, or you have valid information in the My Position setting, your GPS position
is automatically sent with the call. Emergency calls can be sent to several stations at
once.
If you have the FED-STD-1045 ALE/CALM option installed, you can use the global
ALL address syntax (@?@) with the Emergency call type to send a call to all stations
using the ALE/CALM HF network and common channels. If you have the
MIL-STD-188-141B ALE option installed, you can use the ALL, ANY, Group
Selective, NET, or Wildcard address syntax with the Emergency call type to send a
call to a group of stations using an ALE/CALM HF network.
Related links:
Making an Emergency call on page 86
Group calls in a Codan Selcall HF network on page 419
ALE address syntax on page 409
Get Position call
NOTE: You can make a Get Position call if the GPS Call option is installed.
NOTE: The success of your Get Position call depends upon the value selected
in the Respond GPS entry in the transceiver that you are polling and
the privacy mode of the HF network that you are using for the call.
NOTE: If you send a Get Position call in an Open Selcall HF network, the
transceiver you are polling must have the Respond GPS entry set to
Always respond.
If you want to obtain the GPS position of a specific station that has the GPS Call
option installed and has valid GPS information, make a Get Position call to that
station. Get Position calls are automatically answered by the called station so an
operator is not required to process the return call.
NOTE: The transceiver uses GPS information from either a connected GPS
receiver (selected as a peripheral device), or from valid content in
Settings > GPS > My Position.