SEAS The Day II
VHF Radio Guidelines
STDII is equipped with a Standard Horizon Matrix AIS+ GX2150 Class D DSC Marine
Radio with one button Distress Broadcast Feature. This guide is a summary of it’s
operation.
All Skippers as a minimum are required to monitor VHF Channel 16 while underway.
The speaker located in the cockpit allows the skipper and crew to listen to radio
broadcasts. The radio is equipped with volume and squelch control knobs that should
be adjusted to allow you to clearly hear transmissions. This radio offers different ways
to monitor Channel 16. 1) Set radio frequency selection to Channel 16 by briefly
pressing “16/9”
button once or selecting with up or down arrow channel selector buttons.
2). Set the radio to Priority scan mode to monitor all frequencies selected in Memory.
Currently the radio has the following frequencies selected in memory, Channels 16, 9,
13 and 22A. To activate the Priority scan mode press one of the soft keys then press
the SCAN
“
-
“
Soft Key,
“
P-SCAN
”
will appear on the display. To turn this feature off
press the
“
16/9
”
or
“
CLR/WX
”
keys. In the scan mode the radio will monitor all
frequencies that have been selected and stored in memory with priority given to
Channel 16. Skippers are discouraged from adding additional frequencies to the radio’s
memory as these will remain in memory and will continue to be monitored on all sails
after the addition until they are deleted. If you are sailing with another boat and wish to
add an additional frequency such as channel 72 to memory please delete the added
frequency from memory after your sail (see radio manual for this procedure).
Note: The radios microphone is equipped with three controls in addition to “Push-To-
Talk”
button. On the front of the microphone you will find a “
DOWN
”
and “
UP
”
Arrow
button to change frequency up or down and a “16/9”
button to turn off the Priority Scan
feature an instantly switch to Channel 16.
Radio Display: The radio will display the current frequency, function or mode and will
also display location information from the GPS Chart plotter. When frequency channels
are changed the display will show the channel number and standard name for that
channel such as “85 - Marine Operator’, “22A - Coast Guard”, “13 - Bridge to Bridge”.
Weather: The radio allows you to listen to local marine weather broadcasts. Press and
hold the
“
CLR/WX
”
button for 2 seconds. The radio will switch to the last Weather
frequency monitored. At Perth Amboy we generally monitor Weather Channel 1. The
radio also has a weather alert monitoring feature that if activated will check the last
Weather Channel used for the broadcast of a weather alert and sound a beep, pressing
any key will stop beep and receive the weather alert report, press
“
QUIT
”
soft key to
return to VHF Scanning function.
Digital Selective Calling (DSC) and Emergency Transmissions: The radio is equipped
with DSC capability and has been assigned a registered code. This code is linked to an
information database that list description of boat and contact information. This feature
allows radios to “Call”
other equipped radios like a phone and request the position
