# Radio Your radio allows you to communicate across the entire station and to your specific [color=#a4885c]department[/color]. To send a station-wide message over the radio preface your text with [color=#a4885c]semi-colon (;)[/color]. ## Departmental Radio You are able to send messages over your departmental radio channels using [color=#a4885c]colon (:)[/color] followed by the department letter as long as you're wearing a headset with your department's encryption key. Examine your headset to see the department channels available to you. Examining a default engineering headset would show you the prefixes for the [color=#32cd32]Common[/color] and [color=#f37746]Engineering[/color] channels. It is also possible to use [color=#a4885c]:h[/color]. This hotkey will automatically default to your department radio channel. For an example if you're Captain, then [color=#a4885c]:h[/color] will default to [color=#a4885c]:c[/color]