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Circuit Testing
To find out if telephone stations are manned and ready, the
control station conducts a circuit test. The circuit test consists of
a phone check of all stations. When making the phone check,
the control station says, “All Stations – Control. Phone check.”
Each talker then acknowledges in assigned order. On a
damage control circuit, responses to the phone check would go
like this:
Talker in repair two:
“Repair Too, aye.”
Talker in repair three: “Repair Tree, aye.”
Talker in repair five:
“Repair Fife, aye.”
Each station responds in order, but waits only a few seconds
for the station immediately preceding to acknowledge. For
example, if you are the talker in repair three and the talker in
repair two does not respond in a few seconds, you acknowledge.
Repair two then responds at the end of the check. A circuit test
is not complete until every station has answered and all
equipment faults have been corrected.
Q9.
How does the control station find out if all stations on
a circuit are manned and ready?
Q10.
What do you do when the sation before you does not
answer a circuit test?
Q11.
When is a circuit test considered complete?
Sending a Message
When you send a message, first call the name of the station
you want to communicate with; then identify your own station;
and finally, state the message:
“Foc’sle – Bridge. Range to anchorage too thousand yards.”
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