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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8-3 Distress Acknowledgement (DISTRESS ACK) or Distress Relay All
Ships (DISTRESS REL)
1. An alert sounds when a Distress ACK or Distress Relay all ship call is received. Press
SILENC soft-key to silence the alert.
2. The radio automatically selects CH16 after 10 seconds if no user intervention, or press
ACCEPT soft-key to change to CH16 immediately.
3. Press +/- button or rotate the CH knob to view details of the distress call.
Details include the user MMSI and nature of the emergency (if specified), also the
time and the location (if specified). If the location and time are not specified, these are
replaced with sequences of 9s and 8s respectively.
4. Press PTT to make voice contact with the calling vessel. Maintain a listening watch on
CH16 and standby to lend assistance
• For a Distress Acknowledgement (DISTRESS ACK) sent from the Search and Rescue
(SAR) authorities of your country, your radio automatically cancels Distress Mode
transmissions and CH16 appears. Press PTT to establish voice contact with the Search
and Rescue (SAR) authority.
• The Search and Rescue (SAR) authorities of your country are the only instance allowed
to send a Distress Acknowledgement (DISTRESS ACK).
5. Press EXIT key to quit the current DSC receive process.
Note: The call data is stored in the Distress Log and location data (DSC & DSE) sentence is
sent on the NMEA0183 port for indication on a connected chart-plotter / MFD.
DISTRESS
ACK FROM
567890123
FIRE
▼ 00:01
8-4 Distress Relay Individual (INDIV DISTR RELAY)
When an incoming Individual Distress Relay call is received, the alarm sounds and INDIV
DISTR RELAY is displayed.
1. Press SILENC soft-key to silence the alarm.
2. Press +/- button or rotate the CH knob to view details of the distress call. Details
include the user MMSI and nature of the emergency (if specified), also the time and the
location (if specified). If the location and time are not specified, these are replaced with
sequences of 9s and 8s respectively.
3. ALL MODELS: Press ACCEPT soft-key to immediately accept the channel change before
the 10s timer expires
4. US MODELS: Press ACK soft-key to ACK the call after the 10s delay - for “INDIV REPLY”
options, see section 5-15.
5. Press EXIT key to quit current receive DSC process..
Note: The call data is stored in the Distress Log and location data (DSC & DSE) sentence is
sent on the NMEA0183 port for indication on a connected chart-plotter / MFD.