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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Adjacent Channel Power less than 70 dB
Spurious/Harmonic Emissions less than 0.25uW
Current drain Transmit (High) 1.75 A
Transmit (Low) 0.8 A
A-4 GPS and Navigation:
Satellites tracked 12
Navigation Great Circle navigation display with 300 waypoints
Plotter 12 range scales and 360 point of track history with
interval control
Units NM, SM, KM
NMEA Output RMC, GGA, GLL, GNS, GSV
A-5 Digital Selective Calling (DSC):
DSC type CLASS-D
MMSI and NAME directory 20 numbers & groups
Dedicated Distress key Yes
A-6 Standards:
DSC – US models ITU-R M.493-13
DSC – EU models EN 300338-5
Other EN 60950-1:2006 /A1:2010
Appendix B - Frequency charts
International marine channels
CH TX (MHz) RX (MHz) MODE TRAFFIC TYPE SHIP TO
SHIP
SHIP TO
SHORE
NAME TAG REMARK
01 156.050 160.650 D Public Correspondence No Yes TELEPHONE
02 156.100 160.700 D Public Correspondence No Yes TELEPHONE
03 156.150 160.750 D Public Correspondence No Yes TELEPHONE
04 156.200 160.800 D Port Operations No Yes PORT OP
05 156.250 160.850 D Port Operations, Selected VTS
Areas
No Yes PORT OPS/VTS
06 156.300 156.300 S Inter-ship Safety Yes No SAFETY
07 156.350 160.950 D Port Operations No Yes PORT OPS
08 156.400 156.400 S Commercial (inter-ship only) Yes No COMMERCIAL
09 156.450 156.450 S Recreational Calling Channel Yes Yes CALLING
10 156.500 156.500 S Commercial Yes Yes COMMERCIAL
11 156.550 156.550 S Commercial, VTS in Selected Areas Yes Yes VTS
12 156.600 156.600 S Port Operations, Selected VTS
Areas
Yes Yes PORT OPS/VTS
13 156.650 156.650 S Inter-ship Navigation Safety
(bridge-to bridge)
Yes No BRIDGE COM
14 156.700 156.700 S Port Operations, Selected VTS
Areas
Yes Yes PORT OPS/VTS
15 156.750 156.750 S Port Operations Yes Yes PORT OPS
1
1W only
16 156.800 156.800 S International Distress, Safety,
and Calling
Yes Yes DISTRESS
17 156.850 156.850 S State Controlled Yes Yes SAR
1
1W only
18 156.900 161.500 D Port Operations No Yes PORT OPS
19 156.950 161.550 D Commercial No Yes SHIP - SHORE
20 157.000 161.600 D Port Operations No Yes PORT OPS
21 157.050 161.650 D Port Operations No Yes PORT OPS
22 157.100 161.700 D Port Operations No Yes PORT OPS
23 157.150 161.750 D Public Correspondence No Yes TELEPHONE
24 157.200 161.800 D Public Correspondence No Yes TELEPHONE
25 157.250 161.850 D Public Correspondence No Yes TELEPHONE
26 157.300 161.900 D Public Correspondence No Yes TELEPHONE
27 157.350 161.950 D Public Correspondence No Yes TELEPHONE
28 157.400 162.000 D Public Correspondence No Yes TELEPHONE
60 156.025 160.625 D Public Correspondence No Yes TELEPHONE
61 156.075 160.675 D Port Operations No Yes PORT OPS