User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Section 1 - General Information
- Section 2 - The Radio Menu (MENU)
- Section 3 - Radio Setup Menu (RADIO SETUP)
- Section 4 - DSC Setup Menu (DSC SETUP)
- 4-1 DSC Setup - Menu Options
- 4-2 Enter or View Your USER MMSI (USER MMSI)
- 4-3 Maintain Your Groups (GROUP SETUP)
- 4-4 Response to Individual Calls (INDIV REPLY)
- 4-5 ATIS MMSI & ATIS Functionality
- 4-6 DSC functionality options (DSC FUNC)
- 4-7 Response Type to LL Polling Calls (LL REPLY)
- 4-8 Automatic Channel switching (AUTO SWITCH)
- 4-9 DSC Test Reply (TEST REPLY)
- 4-10 Set the inactivity timer (TIMEOUT)
- 4-1 DSC Setup - Menu Options
- Section 5 - Sending and Receiving DSC Calls
- 5-1 What is DSC?
- 5-2 Sending DSC calls
- 5-2-1 Make a Routine Call (INDIVIDUAL)
- 5-2-2 Retrying a Routine Call
- 5-2-3 Acknowledgement of an Individual Incoming Call (INDIV)
- 5-2-4 Recall the Most Recent Incoming Call (LAST CALL)
- 5-2-5 Call a Group (GROUP)
- 5-2-6 Call All Ships (ALL SHIPS)
- 5-2-7 Call using the Call Log (CALL LOG)
- 5-2-8 Call using the Distress Log (DISTR LOG)
- 5-2-9 Call using the Sent Call Log (SENT CALL)
- 5-2-10 Request the LL Position of a Buddy (LL REQUEST)
- 5-2-11 Make a DSC test call (DSC TEST)
- 5-3 Receiving DSC Calls
- 5-2 Sending DSC calls
- 5-1 What is DSC?
- Section 6 - Distress Calls
- Section 7 - Installation
- Appendix A - Technical Specifications
- Appendix B - Troubleshooting
- Appendix C - US & ROW VHF Marine Channel Charts
- Appendix D - EU VHF Marine Channel Charts
- Appendix E - MMSI, FCC and License Information
Lowrance | Link-5 VHF User Guide52
Group Call: Yes
Call logs: Yes - 20 individual and 10 distress
DSC mode: Class D (Global) with dual receiver (individual CH70)
Standards: ITU-R M.493-12 (US models), EN 300-338-3 (EU models)
Channel Naming: Yes
Tri watch: Yes
Favourite channel scan: Yes
All scan: Yes
User programmable MMSI: Yes
MMSI and NAME directory: Yes - 20 numbers & group
TRANSMITTER
Frequency: 156.025 - 157.425 MHz
Output power: 25 W / 1 W selectable
Transmitter protection: Open / short circuit of antenna
Max Frequency deviation: +/- 5 kHz
Spurious & harmonics: better than 0.25 µ W
Modulation distortion: Less than 4%@ 1 kHz for a +/-3 kHz deviation
RECEIVER
Frequency: 156.025 - 163.275 MHz
12dB SINAD sensitivity: 0.25 uV (distant) / 0.8 uV (local)
20db SINAD sensitivity: 0.35 uV
Adjacent CH selectivity: more than 70 db
Spurious response: more than 70 db
Intermodulation Rejection ratio: more than 68 db
Residual Noise level: more than -40 db unsquelched
Audio output power: 2 W (with 8 ohm at 10% distortion)
4 W with 4 ohm external speaker
Compass safe distance: 0.5 m (1.5’)
Specifications are subject to change without notice.
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