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NAV6 plus NAVTEX System User Guide
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PRINTING NAVTEX AND NAVIGATION LOG
PRINTING NAVTEX AND NAVIGATION LOG PRINTING NAVTEX AND NAVIGATION LOG
PRINTING NAVTEX AND NAVIGATION LOG
The NAV6 plus can be configured to function like a GMDSS paper
NAVTEX printer when connected to a suitable serial printer. A dedicated
NAV6
printer can be purchased from ICS (ICS order number 918.00).
Alternatively, an ICS NAV4 NAVTEX receiver can be modified to
become a NAV6 serial printer by purchasing a NAV4 to NAV6
printer
conversion kit (ICS order number 6100.00).
The NAVTEX auto print facility acts like a GMDSS paper NAVTEX
printer:
• Poor quality messages (error rates over 33%) are not printed.
• All new messages are printed when first received.
•
Only messages not excluded by the print filtering are printed.
•
Message repeats are printed each time they are received until they
have been received with good quality (error rate of less than 4%).
•
Once a good quality message has been received, repeats are not
printed during the next 72 hours. After 72 hours the message is
treated as a new message and printed again.
The Navigation Log auto-print function allows automatic printing of
navigation log entries. Only fields containing valid data are printed.
Setting up a printer
Setting up a printer Setting up a printer
Setting up a printer
Follow these steps to setup NAVTEX printing.
•
Connect the serial printer as described in the “Installation Of Display
Unit” section.
•
Test the printer installation by enabling manual print (see Setup
Mode
⇒
⇒ ⇒
⇒
NAVTEX View
⇒
⇒ ⇒
⇒
Options Page) and printing a NAVTEX
message by pressing the PRINT softkey on the NAVTEX
Mode
⇒
⇒ ⇒
⇒
Print View.
•
Enable NAVTEX auto print and set the output format to “Printer”;
see Setup Mode
⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒
NAVTEX View
⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒
Options Page.
•
Enable NAVTEX manual print if you want to be able to the current
print NAVTEX message by pressing the PRINT softkey on the
NAVTEX Mode
⇒
⇒ ⇒
⇒
Print View.
•
Setup the NAVTEX print filtering to select which message types
from which stations should be printed; see Setup Mode
⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒
NAVTEX
View
⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒
Options Page
⇒ ⇒ ⇒ ⇒
Print Setup.