PRESIDENT MC-8050 DSC, Owner'S Manual

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Contents
Making a Voice Distress Call .............................................................................................. 2
Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 4
Features ..................................................................................................................... 4
Manual overview ........................................................................................................ 4
Getting started ..................................................................................................................... 5
What’s included .......................................................................................................... 5
Parts of the Radio ...................................................................................................... 7
Parts of the Microphone ............................................................................................. 7
Turning on the Radio .................................................................................................. 8
Setting the UIC Channel Mode (USA/CAN/INT) ........................................................ 8
How It Works ........................................................................................................................ 8
Normal mode operation .............................................................................................. 9
Scan mode ............................................................................................................... 10
Weather mode .......................................................................................................... 12
Using Your Radio ............................................................................................................... 14
Using Your Radio ..................................................................................................... 14
Making a voice MAYDAY call ................................................................................... 15
Setting the volume ................................................................................................... 15
Setting the squelch level .......................................................................................... 15
Changing the channel .............................................................................................. 15
Making a transmission ............................................................................................. 15
Boosting the transmission power ............................................................................. 16
Choosing Triple Watch or Dual Watch ..................................................................... 16
Using FIPS codes for weather alerts ........................................................................ 17
Changing display and sound options ....................................................................... 18
Setting the GPS position manually ........................................................................... 18
Using Digital selective Calling (DsC) Features .............................................................. 19
What is DSC? ........................................................................................................... 19
Advanced DSC features ........................................................................................... 19
What is an MMSI number? ....................................................................................... 19
Entering MMSI numbers .......................................................................................... 20
Using the Directory ................................................................................................... 21
Making DSC Calls .................................................................................................... 22
Making an automatic distress call ............................................................................ 24
Receiving a DSC call ............................................................................................... 25
Test Calls .................................................................................................................. 26
Position Request and Reply ..................................................................................... 27
Putting the radio into standby ................................................................................... 29
Disabling automatic channel switching .................................................................... 29
Renaming Channels ................................................................................................. 30
Installing the Hardware ..................................................................................................... 30
Mounting the radio ................................................................................................... 30
Connecting the radio ................................................................................................ 31
Connecting to a GPS receiver .................................................................................. 32
Connecting to a Chartplotter .................................................................................... 34
Connecting to an External Speaker ......................................................................... 35