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DSC OPERATION
6
D
Transmitting a Position Report Call
Transmit a Position Report Call when you want to announce
your own position to a specific ship and receive an answer back.
q
Enter “
Position Report
” in the DSC menu.
DSC Menu
➪
Position Report
(Push
[MENU]
) (Rotate
[SELECTOR]
, then push
[ENT]
.)
w
Rotate
[SELECTOR]
to select the desired preset individual
address or “
Manual Input
,” then push
[ENT]
.
• The ID code can be set first. (p. 16)
• When “
Manual Input
” is selected, push the keypad keys to
set the 9 digit MMSI number for the individual you wish to call.
When a GPS receiver (NMEA0183 ver. 2.0 or 3.01) is
connected, next steps
e
and
r
(Current position/time
programming) are not displayed. Go to step
t
.
e
The position information is displayed. Edit your position data
(latitude and longitude) by pushing the keypad keys. (p. 18)
r
After editing the position data, then push
[ENT]
to set.
Then set the current UTC time directly with the keypad,
then push
[ENT]
.
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t
Push
[ENT]
to transmit the Position Report Call.
• If Channel 70 is busy, the transceiver stands by until the
channel becomes clear.
y
After the Position Report Call has been transmitted, the
following message is displayed.
u
Push
[CLR]
to return to the previous screen before you
entered the DSC menu.
• Even if
[CLR]
has not been pushed, the display automatically
returns to the previous screen after 2 seconds of inactivity.