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TABLE OF CONTENTS Manual for use by the maritime mobile and maritime mobile-satellite services Page FOREWORD PART A Extracts from the Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union Constitution (CS) of the International Telecommunication Union CHAPTER VI - General Provisions Relating to Telecommunications ARTICLE 33 The Right of the Public to Use the International Telecommunication Service ARTICLE 34 Stoppage of Telecommunications ARTICLE 35 Suspension of Services ARTICLE 36 Responsibility ARTICLE 37 Secrecy of Telecommunications ARTICLE 39 Notification of Infringements ARTICLE 40 Priority of Telecommunications ARTICLE 41 Priority of Government Telecommunications Concerning Safety of Life CHAPTER VII - Special Provisions for Radio ARTICLE 45 Harmful Interference ARTICLE 46 Distress Calls and Messages ARTICLE 47 False or Deceptive Distress, Urgency, Safety or Identification Signals 10 Definition of Certain Terms Used in this Constitution, the Convention and the Administrative Regulations of the International Telecommunication Union 11 ANNEX iv Page Convention (CV) of the International Telecommunication Union CHAPTER V - Various Provisions Related to the Operation of Telecommunication Services ARTICLE 36 Charges and Free Services 12 ARTICLE 38 Monetary Unit 12 ARTICLE 39 Intercommunication 12 ARTICLE 40 Secret Language 13 ANNEX Definition of Certain Tenns Used in this Convention and the Administrative Regulations of the International Telecommunication Union 14 PART B Extracts from the Radio Regulations (RR) (Edition of 200 1) SECTION ARTICLE I - Articles (Extracts) Tenns and definitions 23 ARTICLE N omenclature 42 ARTICLE Technical characteristics of stations 44 ARTICLE Assignment and use of frequencies 46 ARTICLE Frequency allocations 49 ARTICLE 15 Interferences 52 ARTICLE 17 Secrecy 57 ARTICLE 18 Licences 58 ARTICLE 19 Identification of stations 60 ARTICLE 20 Service documents 73 ARTICLE 28 Radiodetennination 75 services v Page ARTICLE 30 General provisions 78 ARTICLE 31 Frequencies for the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS) , 81 Operational procedures for distress and safety communications in the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS) 83 Operational procedures for urgency and safety communications in the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS) 92 Alerting signals in the global maritime distress and safety system (GMDSS) 97 ARTICLE 46 Authority of the master 98 ARTICLE 47 Operator's certificates 99 ARTICLE 48 PersonneL 104 ARTICLE 49 Inspection of stations 105 ARTICLE 50 Working hours of stations 106 ARTICLE 51 Conditions to be observed in the maritime services 107 ARTICLE 52 Special rules relating to the use of frequencies 113 ARTICLE 53 Order of priority of communications 140 ARTICLE 54 Selective calling 141 ARTICLE 55 Morse radiotelegraphy 142 ARTICLE 56 Narrow-band direct-printing telegraphy 143 ARTICLE 57 Radiotelephony 144 ARTICLE 58 Charging and accounting for maritime radiocommunications 145 ARTICLE 32 ARTICLE 33 ARTICLE 34 SECTION II - Appendices (Extracts) APPENDIX Classification of emissions and necessary bandwidths 149 APPENDIX Table of transmitter frequency tolerances 154 APPENDIX (WRC-2000) Table of maximum permitted spurious emission power levels 160 APPENDIX Report of an irregularity or infringement 168 APPENDIX 10 Report of harmful interference 171 vi Page APPENDIX 12 Special rules applicable to radiobeacons 173 APPENDIX 13 (WRC-2000) Distress and safety communications (non-GMDSS) 174 APPENDIX 14 Phonetic alphabet and figure code 204 APPENDIX 15 Frequencies for distress and safety communications for the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) 206 Documents with which stations on board ships and aircraft shall be provided 210 (WRC-2000) Frequencies and channelling arrangements in the high-frequency bands for the maritime mobile service 213 (WRC-2000) Table of transmitting frequencies in the VHF maritime mobile band 242 (WRC-2000) Table of allocation of international call sign series 245 APPENDIX 16 APPENDIX 17 APPENDIX APPENDIX 18 42 SECTION III - Resolutions (Extracts) RESOLUTION RESOLUTION RESOLUTION RESOLUTION RESOLUTION RESOLUTION 18 205 312 331 340 343 (Mob-83) Relating to the procedure for identifying and announcing the position of ships and aircraft of States not parties to an armed conflict 249 (Rev.Mob-87) Protection of the band 406-406.1 MHz allocated to the mobile-satellite service 251 (Rev.WRC-97) Calling procedures for HF AlA and A1B Morse telegraphy 253 (Rev.WRC-97) Transition to the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) and continuation of the distress and safety provisions in Appendix 13 255 (WRC-97) Need for additional search and rescue information in databases 258 (WRC-97) Maritime certification for personnel of ship stations and ship earth stations for which a radio installation is not compulsory 260 vii Page RESOLUTION 349 (WRC-97) Operational procedures for cancelling false distress alerts in the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System 263 RESOLUTION 350 (WRC-2000) Study on interference caused to the distress and safety frequencies 12 290 kHz and 16 420 kHz by routine calling 266 incorporated by SECTION IV - Recommendations ITU-R reference (Extracts) Rec ITU-R M.489-2 Technical characteristics of VHF radiotelephone equipment operating in the maritime mobile service in channels spaced by 25 kHz , 271 Rec ITU-R M.492-6 Operational procedures for the use of direct-printing telegraph equipment in the maritime mobile service 273 Rec ITU-R M.54l-8 Operational procedures for the use of digital selective-calling equipment in the maritime mobile service 282 Rec ITU-R SM.1138 Determination of necessary bandwidths including examples for their calculation and associated examples for the designation of emIssIons ···················································· 314 Rec ITU-R M.1169 Hours of service of ship stations · 322 Rec ITU-R M.ll70 Morse telegraphy procedures in the maritime mobile service 327 Rec ITU-RM.1171 Radiotelephony procedures in the maritime mobile service 334 Rec.ITU-RM.1172 Miscellaneous abbreviations and signals to be used for radiocommunications in the maritime mobile service 343 Rec.ITU-RM.1173 Technical characteristics of single-sideband transmitters used in the maritime mobile service for radiotelephony in the bands between 606.5 kHz (1 605 kHz region 2) and 4000 kHz and between 4000 kHz and 27 500 kHz 376 Technical characteristics of equipment used for on-board vessel communications in the bands between 450 and 470 MHz 378 and ······ 380 Rec ITU-R M.1174-l Rec ITU-R M.1175 for radiotelegraph equipment receIvmg Automatic radiotelephone alarm signals viii Page PART C Extracts from other ITU-R Recommendations (M Series) Rec ITU-R M.493-1O Digital selective-calling system for use in the maritime mobile servIce 383 Rec ITU-R M.585-2 Assignment and use of maritime mobile service identities 407 Rec ITU-R M.689-2 system with International maritime VHF radiotelephone automatic facilities based on DSC signalling formaL 410 PART D Extracts from the International Telecommunication Regulations (Melbourne, 1988) Purpose and Scope of the Regulations 421 ARTICLE Definitions 421 ARTICLE International Network 422 ARTICLE International Telecommunication Services 422 ARTICLE Safety of Life and Priority of Telecommunications 423 ARTICLE Charging and Accounting 423 ARTICLE Suspension of Services 424 ARTICLE Special Arrangements 424 ARTICLE Final Provisions 425 ARTICLE 10 APPENDIX I General Provisions Concerning Accounting 426 APPENDIX Additional Provisions Relating to Maritime Telecommunications 429 ix Page PART E Extracts from ITU- T Recommendations ITU-T Rec D.90 Charging, billing, international accounting and settlement in the maritime mobile service '" 435 Instructions for operators on the operator-assisted international telephone service 448 Operational provisions for the international public telegram servIce 465 ITU-T Rec F.60 Operational provisions for the international telex service 495 ITU-T Rec F.lIO Operational provision for the maritime mobile service 501 ITU-T Rec F.120 Ship station identification for VHFIUHF and maritime mobilesatellite services 518 ITU-T Rec E.l41 ITU-T Rec F.1 PART F Extracts from the Preface to List VIlA (Edition of 200 1) TABLE I Table of Allocation of International Call Sign Series (Appendix 42 to the Radio Regulations) 527 TABLE Table of Allocation of Blocks of Coast Station Identification Numbers '" 530 TABLE Table of Allocation of Blocks of Selective Call Numbers for Ship Stations and Selective Call Numbers for Groups of Ship Stations 531 Table of Allocation of Maritime Identification Digits 534 TABLE Foreword The 2001 edition of the Manual for use by the Maritime Mobile and Maritime Mobile-Satellite Services is published in accordance with Article 20 (No 20.14) of the Radio Regulations, and results from the revision of texts contained in Parts A, B, C, E and F of the Manual extracted from other ITU publications The contents of each Part of the Manual are listed below and supplementary information is given to help and inform its users This Manual, which contains provisions designed to be of use to operators in the maritime mobile and maritime mobile-satellite services, is divided into the following six main Parts: Part A, contains extracts Telecommunication Union from the Constitution and Convention of the International Part B, contains extracts from the Radio Regulations (RR) (Edition of 2001) This Part is divided into four Sections: Section I - Articles (Extracts) Section II - Appendices (Extracts) Section III - Resolutions (Extracts) Section IV - ITU-R Recommendations incorporated by reference (Extracts) Part C, contains extracts from other ITU-R Recommendations (M Series): - Recommendation ITU-R M.493-10: Digital selective-calling system for use in the maritime mobile service - Recommendation identities ITU-R M.585-2: Assignment and use of maritime mobile service Recommendation ITU-R M.689-2: International maritime VHF radiotelephone system with automatic facilities based on DSC signalling format Part D, contains extracts from the International Telecommunications 1998) Regulations (Melbourne, Part E, contains extracts from ITU- T Recommendations: - ITU- T Recommendation D.90: Charging, billing, international accounting and settlement in the maritime mobile service - ITU-T Recommendation E.141: Instructions for operators on the operator-assisted national telephone service - ITU-T Recommendation servIce inter- F.1: Operational provisions for the international public telegram ITU-T Recommendation F.60: Operational provisions for the international telex service - ITU- T Recommendation F.II 0: Operational provisions for the maritime mobile service ITU-T Recommendation mobile-satellite services F.120: Ship station identification for VHFIUHF and maritime Part F, contains extracts from the Preface to List VIlA (Edition of2001) Listed below are the pages of the different parts of the Manual which contain definitions: - Part A: pages 11 and 14 - Part B, Section I: pages 23-41 - Part B, Section IV: page 283 - Part D: pages 421 and 422 - Part E: pages 435, 448-450, 501, 512 and 516 This Part A contains extracts from the Constitution and Convention of the International Telecommunication Union adopted by the Additional Plenipotentiary Conference (Geneva, 1992) as amended by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Kyoto, 1994), also including amendments, adopted by the Plenipotentiary Conference (Minneapolis, 1998) which entered into force on January 2000 (in accordance with Part II of the Final Acts of the Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (Minneapolis, 1998)) 520 ITU-T Rec F.120 The initial three digits define the nationality of the ship as indicated in the following sections Since the whole or a part of the ship station identity is used in the ship station number, certain restrictions may be imposed on the allocation of ship station identities for the Maritime Mobile-Satellite Service Such restrictions are identified in Recommendations E.215 and F.125 The use of the ship station identity in maritime mobile (terrestrial) systems is for further study Assignment of ship station identification 3.1 Assignment of blocks of numbers Blocks of numbers should be assigned to countries so that individual Administrations assign ship station identities within those blocks 3.2 may systematically Identification of ship's geographical region The first digit of each ship station identity is intended to identify the geographical region to which the nationality (registry) of the ship relates Only the digits through are used for this purpose to identify easily the world's regions as follows: - Europe - North America - Asia (except Southeast Asia) - Oceania and Southeast Asia - Africa - South America Arrangements may therefore be made to systematically assign a ship station identity to each ship as soon as national blocks are allocated The digits zero (0), one (1), eight (8) and nine (9) are allocated for other purposes as indicated below The digits eight (8) and nine (9) are not used for identification of geographical regions However, for maritime VHF/UHF systems, the digits and may be used to expand network access as shown in § 8.2 The allocation of the first digit of the ship station identity is summarized in Table 1/F.l20 522 ITU-T Rec F.120 Assignment of maritime identification digits Each MID represents a discrete capacity assigned according to a plan that relates assigned capacity to ship population A plan has been developed by the World Administrative Radio Conference for the Mobile Services (MOB83) [2] and is contained in Appendix 43 to the Radio Regulations [1] The Radio Regulations make provision for the allocation of additional MIDs for a specific country when necessary Group calls Xl = 0, X2 = to and Xl = 0, Xl = 0, X3 = 0, X4 = to are assigned to indicate a group call to a group of ships having a community of interest Such calls may be barred in the public switched network and/or at the coast stations Control of group calls may also be achieved by the use of special group service access to the coast stations The group call numbering scheme used in the INMARSAT system is given in Annex B to Recommendation E.215 and in Annex B to Recommendation F.I25 Coast station identity Xl = 0, Xl = 0, X3 = to are assigned to indicate coast station identities in maritime mobile (terrestrial) systems Future expansion of the ship station identification system X I = as in the format XXXXXXXX has been reserved for future expansion Note - Xl = is used in the INMARSAT standard A system for identification of ship earth stations (see Recommendations F.I25 and E.215) Considerations related to ship station identity assignment 8.1 The ship station identity, or part of it, will be included in the INMARSAT mobile number The way in which this is done for INMARSAT mobile numbers is described in Recommendations E.215 and F.l25 The relationship between the nine-digit ship station identity and the part of it which is used in the ship station number is illustrated in Table 3/F.l20 If the part of the identity used in the number is shorter than nine digits, then the corresponding identity is obtained by adding trailing zeros to form nine-digit ship station identities This principle must be observed when allocating ship station identities for ships in the Maritime Mobile-Satellite Service (see Recommendations E.215 and F.l25) PART F Extracts from the Preface to List VIlA (Edition of2001) ... and F of the Manual extracted from other ITU publications The contents of each Part of the Manual are listed below and supplementary information is given to help and inform its users This Manual, ... recognize the right of the public to correspond by means of the international service of public correspondence The services, the charges and the safeguards shall be the same for all users in each... and the cross-references to provisions without the prefix "8" which appear in contained in this edition, are considered equivalent the the by the Within the text of the Radio Regulations, the