User's Instructions

ED 3047 G 122 / – (2002-12)
Operating Instructions
2 General Remarks about Operating Procedures and Display
2.1 Switching the Display and Control Unit On and Off
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2 General Remarks about Operating Procedures and Display
The AIS Electronics Unit continually broadcasts the own ship data (i.e. position, speed, course etc.) which
can be received by all other AIS stations in VHF range.
The information is displayed on the Display and Control Unit DCU. The Electronics Unit and the DCU
are independent of each other i.e. the Electronics Unit will work (send and receive) even when the DCU
is switched off.
Other installations are available, where the radar system or the ECDIS is used as display and operating
unit for the AIS functions.
2.1 Switching the Display and Control Unit On and Off
Switching the DCU on and off is done by pressing the ON/OFF key.
☞ At the instant of switching on, the brightness setting that existed when the unit was
switched off last is taken over. Therefore, it can happen that, after switch-on, the
display remains dark and the keys are not lit up. Therefore, in a dark room it is then
not possible to recognise that the unit is in the switched-on state. The display can be
made brighter by pressing the 0 key; see also Section 2.7.
2.2 Situation Display and Target Data Display
Shortly after switching on, the operational display appears in the Display Area, showing the Situation
Display and the Target Data Display:
ON/OFF
Target Data DisplaySituation Display
RANGE 12NM
When an alarm occurs, the function appears here.
Pressing the key below it, opens the alarm list
ALARM
Functions of the softkeys that are situ-
ated below
Target
Own ship symbol (always at the
centre of the Situation Display)
Marking of the target whose data appear
in the Target Data Display
Range Rings
MORE
>1°/min
306.8°
HDG/ROT
15.7kt
COG/SOG
BRG/RNG
16:38.00
321.6°
356.2°
034:11.35
7.2NM
POSITION
VEN
275635812
DTEH2
MS BREMERHA
Class
TARGET DATA
Display Area
A
N
W