GMDSS
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The Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) - the maritime equivalent to the emergency services number - provides a fast and efficient way of calling for assistance at sea, whatever the size of craft or its location. Denise Bréhaut explains the operation of the system as a whole and clearly outlines the procedures required to get help quickly, as well as covering the syllabi of the General Operator's Certificate (GOC), the Long Range Certificate (LRC) and the Restricted Operator's Certificate (ROC).
Concise descriptions of channel usage, call signs, types of transmission and equipment allow novices as well as long-time users to thoroughly understand this life-saving communications system. The 6th edition of GMDSS incorporates all the changes to the regulations that came into force in 2009 as well as the 2016 system updates. GMDSS: A User's Handbook has proved an invaluable reference for exam candidates and equipment users alike for almost 20 years - it is the GMDSS bible.
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- Bloomsbury UK
- 9781472945679
- 9781472945686
- ePub
- 6
- Denise Bréhaut
- English
- 2017-09-21
- 100
- 10
- 10
Kaflar
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- PREFACE
- GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS
- 1 INTRODUCTION TO THE SYSTEMS
- Sea areas
- Equipment requirements for compulsorily fitted vessels
- Voluntarily fitted vessels
- Questions
- Answers
- 2 TRAINING COURSES AND EXAMINATIONS
- The General Operator’s Certificate Course (GOC)
- The GOC examination
- The Long Range Certificate Course (LRC)
- The LRC examination
- Satellite module
- The Restricted Operator’s Certificate Course (ROC)
- The ROC examination
- 3 MODES OF EMISSION AND PROPAGATION
- Modes of emission
- Propagation of the radio wave
- Types of radio waves
- Practical uses within radio frequency bands
- Questions
- Answers
- 4 GENERAL REGULATIONS AND PROCEDURES
- Identification of stations
- Radio watch
- DSC watch keeping
- Test transmissions
- Documents
- Transmissions in UK harbours
- Simplex and duplex
- The use of channels and frequencies in the maritime band
- Transceiver functions
- Maximum permitted transmitter power
- The phonetic alphabet
- Control of communications
- Making a routine call
- Difficulty with communications
- Questions
- Answers
- 5 DIGITAL SELECTIVE CALLING
- Distress alert
- Undesignated or designated distress alerts
- Receipt and acknowledgement of DSC alerts
- Distress alert relay
- Urgency call
- Safety call
- Routine call
- DSC priorities or call categories
- Classes of DSC controller
- Cancelling false alerts
- Avoiding false alerts
- Questions
- Answers
- 6 DSC AND RADIOTELEPHONY PROCEDURES
- Distress
- On-scene communications
- Procedural words relating to distress working
- Distress relay
- Urgency
- Safety
- Routine procedures
- Contacting a vessel whose MMSI is unknown
- Questions
- Answers
- 7 THE RADIOTELEPHONY EXAMINATION
- 8 THE INMARSAT SYSTEMS
- INMARSAT C
- INMARSAT Fleet F77
- Operations
- Two-digit special service codes
- Distress priority connections on Fleet F77
- Distress alerting on SAT C
- Avoiding false alerts
- Cancelling false alerts
- Security
- Questions
- Answers
- 9 INMARSAT PROCEDURES
- Fleet F77
- Priority connections
- Distress priority connection by telephone
- Distress message by telephone
- Distress relay connection
- Urgency priority connection
- Urgency message by telephone
- Safety priority connection
- Safety message by telephone
- Routine priority connection
- INMARSAT C
- Distress alerting
- Distress message
- Other priority messages
- Logging out
- Questions
- Answers
- 10 EPIRBs AND SARTs
- EPIRBs
- Activation
- SARTs
- AIS-SART
- Testing of EPIRBs and SARTs
- Avoiding false alerts
- Questions
- Answers
- 11 ANTENNAE AND BATTERIES
- VHF antenna
- MF and HF whip antenna
- Wire aerial
- Antennae for INMARSAT Fleet F77
- Antennae for INMARSAT C
- Maintenance of antennae
- Batteries
- Battery maintenance
- Questions
- Answers
- 12 MARITIME SAFETY INFORMATION
- Navtex
- Message types
- FEC
- Enhanced Group Calling (EGC)
- Questions
- Answers
- 13 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- eCopyright