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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GO
MOB
Link-2 MARINE VHF/GPS
CALL
MENU
WX
NAV
HI/LO
WATERPROOF
16
PHONE-PORTOP
03:00 UTC
36°45.193`S
174°42.486`E
3CH
SCAN
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Section 2 - Controls and keys
Speaker
CALL/MENU
Mic
WX/NAV
HI/LO/GPS
Low battery indicator
Favorite channels:
1, 2 or 3
Speaker/Mic jack
Channel
Vol + and Vol -
GPS Antenna
Right Softkey
CH /
SQL /
PWR/LOCK/EXIT
Tx Power: HI or LO
GO/MOB
Status:
T (transmit) or
R (receive)
Signal strength
16/9 key
DISTRESS Key
PTT
VHF Antenna
Left Softkey
Working mode
channel name
Time COG/SOG
Latitude
Longitude
2-1 Keys/Controls and functions
PWR/LOCK/EXIT PWR: To turn the unit on and o, press and hold down PWR /
/ EXIT (red key) for more than 2 seconds and release.
LOCK: The keylock, locks and unlocks keypad. Press PWR / /
EXIT (red key) for 1 second and release. A key icon will ap-
pear on screen to indicate whether keylock is on or o.
EXIT: Also used to EXIT some menu items. Short press PWR /
/ EXIT (red key) for 1 second and release.
VOL Volume Adjustment - located on the side of the radio. Press
to increase or press to decrease until a comfortable volume is
reached.
SQL / Squelch or Threshold Level - located on the central control dial.
Sets the threshold level for the minimum receiver signal. 16
steps available.
CH / Channel select - located on the central control dial. Press to
select a higher channel or press to select a lower channel.
16/9 Priority Channel. Press to cancel all other modes and to tune
into the priority channel. Press again to return to your original
channel. To make Channel 09 the default instead, hold down
16/9 until a beep sounds and 09 is displayed (US only).
Left softkey (3CH/EXIT) This radio utilizes ‘soft keys’ where the functionality of each
softkey button will change depending on the mode the radio is
in. The bottom line of the LCD display will indicate the function
of each softkey located immediately below.
3CH softkey:
3CH
The 3CH softkey is used to initiate a Three Favorite
Channels scan function. Press to toggle between your favorite
channels. The , , or symbol appears on the LCD to show
which favorite channel is selected.
If you want to scan all three favorite channels, press 3CH, then
immediately press and hold SCAN.
To add a favorite channel for the rst time, select that channel
then hold 3CH to store it in the CH1 location. Repeat the pro-
cedure to store two more favorite channels in the CH2 and CH3
locations respectively.
If you try and add another favorite channel it will overwrite the
existing CH3. CH1 and CH2 will remain unless you delete them.
To delete a favorite channel, select that channel then hold
Channel Bank