Service Documents Introduction

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Service Documents - Introduction

• Conceived and structured to provide information
  deemed essential for
• proper and safe functioning of radiocommunication
  services
• enhancing the safety of life.
• Obligatory to certain classes of ship radio
  stations.
• Administrations - have an obligation to ensure
  compliance
• Two types of service documents
• Those related to maritime mobile and maritime
  mobilesatellite service (MSD)
• others, not related to maritime mobile service
  (N-MSD).

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Service Documents - Maritime (MSD)
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Service Documents Non-Maritime (N-MSD)
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- MSD - List of Coast Stations - List IV

• Periodicity
• Published every two years
• kept up-to-date by means of three, semi-annual
  supplements.
• CARRIAGE REQUIREMENT
• on board ships with Morse radiotelegraph
  installation
• On board GMDSS ships.
• The information provided enables ship stations
• 1) to establish and maintain communications with
  coast stations
• 2) to identify appropriate GMDSS stations,
  in case of distress.

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- MSD - List of Coast Stations - List IV

• Information provided
• call sign
• selective call number and MMSI
• hours of operation
• frequencies in use
• type and classes of emissions
• hours of traffic lists and watch-keeping
• etc.

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- MSD - List of Coast Stations - List IV

• Tariffs and Taxes.
• Particulars of stations participating in GMDSS
• MF, HF and VHF Digital Selective Calling
• Coast Earth Stations
• Stations broadcasting Maritime Safety Information
  (MSI) including those of NAVTEX service.

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- MSD - List of of Ship Stations - List V

• Periodicity
• Published annually
• kept up-to-date by means of two quarterly
  supplements in addition to a half-yearly
  recapitulative supplement.
• Carriage Obligation
• Ships fitted with radio telegraph installation
• Ships fitted for GMDSS.

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- MSD - List of of Ship Stations - List V

• Information provided
• Identification of stations (Ship name, Call
  sign, Selective call numbers, MMSI)
• Auxiliary information - (EPIRB, SART and life
  boats)
• Class and type of ship
• Frequency bands
• Accounting authorities information
• Annex of Pre-determined groups of stations
• Addresses of Administrations
• Etc.

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- MSD - List of Radiodetermination and Special
Services Stations (List VI)

• Periodicity
• This List is published at intervals determined by
  the Secretary-General
• Normally every three and a half years and kept up
  to date by supplements published every six
  months.
• Carriage Obligation
• to ship stations for which a Morse
  radio-telegraph installation is required by
  international agreement.

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- MSD - List of Radiodetermination and Special
Services Stations (List VI)

• Particulars of stations used for maritime
  radio-navigation and of stations providing
  special transmissions for use by ship and other
  stations.
• Information provided
• Direction finding and DF calibration stations
• Radio beacons and radar beacons stations

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- MSD - List of Radiodetermination and Special
Services Stations (List VI)

• Stations transmitting time and standard
  frequencies
• Stations transmitting Ursigrams (bulletin about
  solar activities and the ionosphere)
• Stations transmitting regular meteorological
  bulletin and notices to mariners
• Stations transmitting medical advice.

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- MSD - Lists of Call Signs and Numerical
Identities of Stations Used by Maritime Mobile
and Maritime Mobile-satellite Service (List VIIA)

• Periodicity
• Published every two years
• kept up-to-date by means of quarterly
  supplements.
• Carriage Obligation
• Ships fitted with radio telegraph installation
• Ships fitted for GMDSS.

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- MSD - Lists of Call Signs and Numerical
Identities of Stations Used by Maritime Mobile
and Maritime Mobile-satellite Service (List VIIA)

• This List complements the List of ship stations
  and the previously mentioned Lists.
• Is of particular use in the GMDSS search activity
  to identify a station in distress situation.
• Information provided
• a listing of all the notified and recorded call
  signs
• numerical identities of stations of the maritime
  mobile and maritime mobile satellite service and
  their corresponding stations.

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- MSD - Manual for use by Maritime Mobile and
maritime mobile satellite Service

• A reference publication that contains all
  pertinent extracts from
• the ITU Constitution Convention
• Radio Regulations
• Telegraph and Telephone Regulations and
• associated ITU T and R Recommendations
• on the maritime mobile and maritime mobile
  satellite service.
• CARRIAGE OBLIGATION TO ALL SHIP STATIONS

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(N-MSD) List of International Monitoring
Stations (List VIII)

• Periodicity
• Printed at intervals determined by the Secretary
  General, normally every five years
• Updates printed in the Operational Bulletin.
• The List contains in a tabulated form
• particulars of monitoring stations of the
  terrestrial radiocommunications services
• Particulars of monitoring stations of space
  radiocommunications service.

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(N-MSD) Alphabetical List of Call signs of
Stations other than Amateur Stations,
Experimental stations, and Stations of the
Maritime Mobile Service (List VIIB)

• This list contains the alphanumerical listing of
  call signs of non-maritime stations operating
  below 30MHz.
• This List has become redundant as the information
  it contains can now be retrieved from the IFIC.
  The last WRC (2000) decided that the List be no
  longer published.