When you are speaking over the radio, you should consider:

• speak clearly, so that there could be no confusion with other words;
• speak at normal conversation level, so do not shout as shouting may overload microphone causing distortion;
• the voice should be pitched at higher level than for normal conversation and droping the pitch of the voice at the end of a word should be avoided;
• speak slowly but still in phrases rather than word by word.

All calls (except the initial Distress, Urgency and Safety calls explained in next chapters) on the VHF RT radio follow the same patern.

(The identity of the station called) THIS IS (The identity of the calling station) OVER

(The identity of the station called) THIS IS (The identity of the calling station) (Message) OVER

Both stations, called and calling, could be identified by its:

• MMSI,
• name or
• Call Sign.

And both stations could be vessel, CG or CRS.

(MMSI of the called station spoken 1 to 3 times) and/or (Name of the called station spoken 1 to 3 times) and/or (Call sign of the called station spoken 1 to 3 times) THIS IS (MMSI of the calling station spoken 1 to 3 times) and/or (Name of the calling station spoken 1 to 3 times) and/or (Call sign of the calling station spoken 1 to 3 times) OVER

(MMSI of the called station) and/or (Name of the called station) and/or (Call sign of the called station) THIS IS (MMSI of the calling station) and/or (Name of the calling station) and/or (Call sign of the calling station) (Message) OVER

All identifications could be used at the same time in a call, but in most cases just one of them is used.

Identifications are spoken:

• 3 times in case of Distress, Urgency or Safety working, in difficult radio conditions, sailing at international or another country's water (because of the language-pronunciation problem).
  
• twice in case the called station is not expecting the call,
• once in all other cases.
  

But after the contact is established, any identification need only be transmited once.

VHF radio voice procedure:

• Press the PTT switch and call (using the pattern above) ending with the procedure word “OVER”
• Release the PTT switch and listen for a reply
• When communication is completed finish with the procedure word “OUT”

Marina Koper, Marina Koper This is Spinaker, Spinaker Over Spinaker This is Marina Koper Go to channel 15 Over Marina Koper This is Spinaker Do you have space for a 14 metre long sail boat Over Spinaker This is Marina Koper Yes we have Sail into the marina and go to the extreme right pier number one Over Marina Koper This is Spinaker We are coming Out