How are high seas (HF) radiotelephone communications initially established between a vessel and a public correspondence station?

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The vessel calls and establishes voice contact with the public correspondence station on a channel that the station is known to monitor , and the two stations then proceed with their business .

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The vessel listens for "free signals" and calls the public correspondence station on the SITOR (NBDP) calling channel with the strongest marker signal.

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The vessel calls the public correspondence station on VHF Channel 16, and the two stations then switch to the working channel.

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Public Correspondence Stations operate SITOR (NBDP) only.

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