User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Safety and operational information
- Section 1 - General information
- Section 2 - Controls and keys
- Section 3 - Operating the radio
- Section 4 - Advanced setup
- 4-1 Waypoint
- 4-2 Backlight adjustment
- 4-3 Lamp timer
- 4-4 Buddy list (Manage your buddy list)
- 4-5 Contrast adjustment
- 4-6 GPS/DATA
- 4-6-1 Manual (Manually enter your position and UTC time)
- 4-6-2 Settings: LL display (Show or hide your position)
- 4-6-3 Settings: Time display (Show or hide the time)
- 4-6-4 Time offset (Local time)
- 4-6-5 Settings: Time format (12 or 24 hour clock)
- 4-6-6 Settings: COG/SOG (Course & speed display options)
- 4-6-7 GPS alert
- 4-6-8 Turn GPS ENABLE on/off
- 4-6-9 Set Magnetic Variation (MAG VAR)
- 4-7 Radio setup
- 4-7-1 Channel Bank selection (UIC)
- 4-7-2 Channel name editing (CH NAME)
- 4-7-3 Ring volume adjustment (RING VOLUME)
- 4-7-4 Beep volume adjustment (KEY BEEP)
- 4-7-5 Select unit (UNITS)
- 4-7-6 Set the Priority channel (WATCH MODE)
- 4-7-7 Weather alerts (WX ALERT)
- 4-7-8 Set NMEA output (NMEA OUT)
- 4-7-9 Favourite Channel Setup (FAV CH SETUP)
- 4-8 DSC setup
- 4-8-1 Enter or check your user MMSI (USER MMSI)
- 4-8-2 Maintain groups (GROUP SETUP)
- 4-8-3 Response to individual calls (INDIV REPLY)
- 4-8-4 Enable DSC functionality (DSC SELECT)
- 4-8-5 Response type to LL polling calls (LL REPLY)
- 4-8-6 Automatic Channel switching (AUTO SWITCH)
- 4-8-7 DSC Test Reply (TEST REPLY)
- 4-8-8 Set the inactivity timer (TIMEOUT)
- 4-9 ATIS SETUP (EU only)
- 4-10 Get Buddy
- 4-11 Track log
- 4-12 Erase track
- 4-13 Reset (Reset to factory defaults)
- Section 5 - Sending and Receiving DSC Calls
- 5-1 What is DSC?
- 5-2 DSC call types
- 5-3 Send an Individual call (INDIVIDUAL)
- 5-4 Reply to the Last Call (LAST CALL)
- 5-5 Send a Group call (GROUP)
- 5-6 Send an All Ships call (ALL SHIPS)
- 5-7 Reply to a call in your Call Log (CALL LOG)
- 5-8 Reply to a call in your Distress Log (DISTRESS LOG)
- 5-9 Request the LL position of a buddy (LL REQUEST)
- 5-10 Track your buddy request (TRACK BUDDY)
- 5-11 Make a DSC test call (DSC TEST)
- 5-12 View User MMSI and GPS information
- 5-14 Receiving DSC Calls
- 5-15 Receiving an All Ships Call (ALL SHIPS)
- 5-16 Receiving an Individual Call (INDIV)
- 5-17 Receiving a Group Call (GROUP)
- 5-18 Receiving a Geographic Area Call (GEOGRAPH)
- 5-19 Receiving a Polled Position Call (POSITION)
- Section 6 - Distress calls
- Section 7 - Installation Instructions
- Appendix A - Technical specifications
- Appendix B - Frequency charts
- Appendix C - EU inland waterway channels
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4-8-3 Response to individual calls (INDIV REPLY)
You can respond to an incoming call with either: an automatic response or, with a manual
response.
An automatic response sends an acknowledgement and sets-up the channel ready for a
conversation.
A manual response asks if you want to acknowledge the call, and then asks if you want to
converse with the caller.
DSC SETUP
USER MMSI
GROUP SETUP
►INDIV REPLY
INDIV REPLY
MANUAL
►AUTO
1. Select DSC SETUP, then INDIV REPLY.
2. Select AUTO, for an automatic response, or select MANUAL for a manual response.
4-8-4 Enable DSC functionality (DSC SELECT)
To turn o the DSC function temporarily, such as sailing to inland water or no DSC region.
1. Select DSC SETUP, then DSC SELECT.
2. Select OFF to turn the DSC function o.
3. Press ENTER to conrm your choice and return to the menu.
DSC SETUP
GROUP SETUP
INDIV REPLY
►DSC SELECT
DSC SELECT
ON
►OFF
4-8-5 Response type to LL polling calls (LL REPLY)
You can set up the radio to respond to an LL polling request in one of three ways:
• MANUAL reply manually to any incoming LL polling requests from your buddies
• AUTO automatically replies to any incoming LL polling requests from any of your
buddies
• OFF ignores all incoming buddy LL polling requests.
DSC SETUP
INDIV REPLY
DSC SELECT
►LL REPLY
LL REPLY
►MANUAL
AUTO
OFF
1. Select DSC SETUP then LL REPLY.
2. Select your response and press ENT to conrm and return to the menu.
4-8-6 Automatic Channel switching (AUTO SWITCH)
When a DSC call is received, it may include a request to change to a specic channel for
subsequent communications. If a channel switch request is included, your options are:
• allow the radio to switch to the requested channel immediately by pressing the ENT
button, or
• do nothing to allow the radio to automatically switch to the requested channel after
a delay of 10 seconds, or
• cancel the automatic switch and remain on the current channel by pressing the EXIT
button.
However, automatic switching to a subsequent communications channel on receipt of a
DSC call might in some cases disrupt important ongoing communications if the working
channel changes without the operator knowing.
You can prevent the radio from automatically switching from the current working
channel by setting the AUTO SWITCH feature to OFF.
If the AUTO SWITCH feature is set to OFF, an
X
will be displayed on the LCD to remind
you that this feature is set to off. Additionally, the text “AUTO SW OFF” will be included in
an All Ships or Group call replacing the text “AUTO CHxx”
DSC SETUP
DSC SELECT
LL REPLY
►AUTO SWITC
AUTO SWITCH
►ON
OFF
1. Select DSC SETUP, then AUTO SWITCH.
2. Select ON to enable automatic channel switching.
3. Select OFF to disable automatic channel switching.