TO SELECT THE STATIONS YOU WANT TO STORE.
Each Navtex station has an `ident`letter. To select the station you want
to store follow the instruction below.
Press
Stations
and a list of international (518KHZ) and national
(490KHZ) stations will be displayed.
Use the
NEXT
and
PREVIOUS
keys to move the cursor through the
list. Use the
FLIP
key to change the highlighted character between
UPPER and lower case. The Easy Navtex will store Messages where
the station ident letter is in UPPER case and ignore stations when in
lower case.
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TO SELECT THE MESSAGES YOU WANT TO STORE.
Press MESSAGES then use the PREVIOUS and NEXT keys to scroll
through the list of messages available. Use the FLIP key to flip between
STORED and IGNORED for each message in the list.
MESSAGE FORMAT.
All messages start with a four character header. The first character in
the header is the station identification letter. The second character
identifies the message type and characters three and four the message
number. After the header the word "national" or "international", written
in lower case characters , indicates which channel the message was
received.
Then comes the body of the message followed by a number in
parenthesis. This number is a measure of reception quality being the
total number of errors received during the message. Most of these
errors will not be apparent in the message as they will have been
corrected by the Forward Error Correction system. The final character
confirming a message has been properly terminated is a hash symbol.
If a message is not correctly terminated an error message will be
printed in lower case characters.
KEY FUNCTION SUMMARY.
OLDER Go to previous message.
NEWER Go to next message.
LATEST Go to last message received.
DOWN Scroll down a message.
