Raymarine Ray218, Owner'S Handbook Manual

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Chapter 5: Digital Selective Calling (DSC) 97
Note:
This feature can disable automatic channel switching for incoming DSC Distress
and All Ships Urgency Calls. If enabled, you are responsible for determining whether man-
ually declining the call is appropriate.
To enable/disable automatic channel change:
1. From the DSC SETUP menu item, highlight AUTO CH CHG.
2. Press SELECT to accept.
3. Select either ON or OFF.
4. Press SELECT to accept.
If you accept ON (the default), your Ray218/Ray55 automatically changes to
channel 16 when a Distress or All Ships Urgency Call is received.
If you accept OFF, on receipt of a Distress or All Ships Urgency Call you are
presented with brief details of the call and advised that a change to channel 16
has been requested. You can either accept the channel change or decline, thereby
continuing to monitor your current channel. When set OFF, the
icon appears
on the LCD.
If you accept the request, the call is received, a tone sounds and the radio is
changed to channel 16. Pressing any key disables the alarm. If you ignore the call,
after 5 minutes the radio declines the call, records the call in the Call Log and
maintains normal operation.
Position Reply
This option enables you to determine how your radio responds to a request for
your GPS position information (lat/lon) from another station.
To enable/disable Position Reply:
1. From the DSC SETUP menu, highlight POS REPLY.
2. Press SELECT to accept.
3. Highlight the desired setting and press SELECT to accept.
• AUTO sends out your vessel’s position data as soon as it is requested.
• MANUAL sends out the data only after you respond to the request.
• OFF will not send position data under any circumstances, nor notify you
that the request has been made.
The default setting is MANUAL, which is described in “Position Request“ on
page 89.