{"id":563,"date":"2020-10-31T08:38:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T08:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/?p=563"},"modified":"2020-10-31T08:40:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T08:40:39","slug":"good-radio-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/2020\/10\/31\/good-radio-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Good radio procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When using a radio<\/strong> one should bear the following in mind:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Unlike your telephone it is not a private circuit.  Anyone who has a radio covering the same frequency can listen in.<\/li>\n<li>There may be many users waiting to use the same circuit.  Your use of the radio must be brief and to the point.  Do not waffle.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The following is a <strong>guide to the professional and efficient use<\/strong> of radio communications:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Do not transmit during silence periods.<\/li>\n<li>Listen before calling on the circuit to ensure that:\n<ul>\n<li>there is no distress traffic in progress; and<\/li>\n<li>you are not interfering with other communications in progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Call on the calling frequency for a maximum of one minute to establish communications.<\/li>\n<li>As soon as your call is answered change to a working frequency for sending your message.<\/li>\n<li>If your equipment has different power settings, always choose the lowest setting necessary to achieve satisfactory communications.<\/li>\n<li>If a distress, urgency or safety message is received while operating radio equipment, stop and listen to the call and message.<\/li>\n<li>Make up your mind what you are going to say before transmitting.<\/li>\n<li>Read to yourself any written message before passing it verbally on the radio.<\/li>\n<li>Speak clearly and deliberately.<\/li>\n<li>If there can be any doubt about the correct reception of a word, spell it by using the phonetic alphabet.<\/li>\n<li>Transmit important groups of numbers singly and phonetically, ie 124249 would be \u201cwun, too, forwer, too. forwer, niner.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Always make your messages as brief as possible.<\/li>\n<li>Do not use foul or obscene language on the radio.<\/li>\n<li>Do not use the personal names of the operators when communicating.  Use the names or call signs of the vessels concerned.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When using a radio one should bear the following in mind: Unlike your telephone it is not a private circuit. Anyone who has a radio covering the same frequency can listen in. There may be many users waiting to use the same circuit. Your use of the radio must be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,124,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-11-4-4-communications","category-11-4-1-distress-and-safety-communications-at-sea","category-11-4-1-7-good-radio-procedures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}