User's Manual

CONTACTS
OVERVIEW OF CONTACTS
144 ENVOY™ TRANSCEIVER REFERENCE MANUAL
Overview of contacts
A contact is an operator who you want to call. You can define a number of potential
calls that you may want to make to this contact, depending on their location and the
type of interaction that is required. For example, you may want to call Bob. During
the day, Bob oversees communications at the base station, and he has a transceiver at
his desk. To communicate with him during the day, you could make a Selective,
Message or Send Position call to his transceiver. After hours, Bob is at home, and no
longer has access to his transceiver. To contact him via HF at this time of the day, you
could make a Phone call to his home landline via a telephone station to which you
have access.
Contacts has two tabs: Contacts and Emergency Contacts. The Contacts tab
contains all of the information on people who you call, and the types of calls that you
want to make to them. The Emergency Contacts tab contains a list of contacts who
you may want to call in an emergency. You select the contact who you want to call,
then the calls that are programmed for this contact are made in succession when you
hold the key for 2 sec. This type of call is called a chain call.
You should provide all of the information required to make the calls without the
transceiver having to prompt for information, as this will slow down progress of the
call. In an emergency situation, you may not have time, nor be able to, respond to
prompts.
You should order the contacts in the Emergency Contacts tab with your most
likely emergency contact at the top of the list. You should order the calls within this
emergency contact to make those calls that do not require operator intervention at the
called end first (for example, Message call, Send Position call), progressing through
to calls that require an operator to answer. Once PTT is pressed, the chain call ends.