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As a high-end professional maritime radio, retevis RM40 is a new product launched by retevis marine. It is loved by users for its excellent functional features and high cost performance, and is the best choice for maritime practitioners. Because of its powerful function, it is no less powerful than the fixed shipboard platform. Some common shipboard platform users don't realize that it is difficult to use  ...

Retevis ra26 is a professional compact marine waterproof interphone, which is suitable for marine operations, such as fishing at sea, offshore oil production, extradition of ships at ports, distress alarm of waterway, etc.  ...

Now, if you want to use VHF marine radio, you must have relevant certificates. If you don't have relevant certificates, you will encounter some troubles. So how can we get the relevant documents and what are they? Now we have taken Australia as an example to introduce some documents.  ...

DSC is one of the best deals in town. Setting up your VHF radio with digital selective calling is simple, and it could save your life. If you've bought a VHF radio in the last few years, chances are it has a red distress button on the front. Lift the flap, press and hold the button for five seconds, and details of your vessel, your position, and the fact that you require urgent  ...

MMSI is Maritime Mobile Service Identity and a unique 9 digit number that is entered into DSC-marine radio equipment. The MMSI number contain you or your vessel information. When using this equipment to send a distress alert or to indicate some other emergency, the number is transferred into the coast guard’s database to assists the emergency services center to identify you or your vessel and react quickly.  ...

First of all, make sure that your VHF is capable of ATIS transmissions. Otherwise, you will have to acquire the appropriate model, there is a choice of ATIS-enabled radios from different manufacturers on the market. Before traveling on inland waterways of RAINWAT countries, you must enable the ATIS mode of your VHF radio transceiver. This function is programmed by the manufacturer or your local dealer (on your request).  ...

Anything can happen out on the water. Thankfully, two-way radios offer marine solutions to keep your crew safe, well-connected and prepared to respond to an emergency. To keep vessels and the lives they transport as safe as possible, there are several systems and technologies working together for both ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communications.   ...

ATIS stands for Automatic Transmitter Identification System. This system is used on inland waterways in a number of countries in mainland Europe. A unique FFSK data signal is sent out at the end of each voice transmission, containing the vessel's unique callsign, identifying you to marine coast stations and inland stations.  ...

DSC means that Digital selecting calling is a stand for transmitting pre-defined digital messages via the MF, HF, or VHF maritime radio systems to replace a voice call in older procedures, which is a core part of the GMDSS. DSC signal is stable and has no squelch, so the communication distance is longer than the analog signal. And the transmit speed of the DSC signal is also significantly faster.  ...

The distress call Mayday may be used only if the boat is threatened by grave and imminent danger – for example, sinking or on fire – and immediate assistance is required. This distress call has absolute priority over all other transmissions and may be transmitted only on the authority of the skipper or the person responsible for the safety of your vessel.  ...