GMDSS MARITIME RADIO OPERATOR

The content of this useful reference publication has been compiled by Thomas Gantioler intending to provide navigators with resource containing the information covering literally all important aspects of the radio equipment used on board ships of today. The volume is mainly expected to be of good assistance to marine radio specialists plus to the ship crew members involved in one way of another in operating any radio equipment installed onboard their ships.

It consists of four chapters supplemented with the Appendix with the first one is solely dedicated to the Short Range Certificates (SRC) and includes five parts - GMDSS overview, VHF Maritime Mobile Radio, EPIRB, SART and NAVTEX. The other three parts are dealing with the ROC, standing for the "Restricted Operator Certificate", GOC, i.e. "General Operator Certificate", and, finally, LRC, standing for the "Long Range Certificate".

Several appendices will provide navigators with some additional supplementary information on the OPT, i.e. Operation Performance Testing of the radio equipment, mock questions about radio regulations and SOLAS, translations of the radio messages. glossary of the terminology and abbreviations, identifications, list of maritime radio equipment etc.