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2 position call: other ship requests your position – Furuno FS-5070 User Manual

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5. ROUTINE MESSAGE CALLING, RECEVING

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One of the following messages appears. “No response! Try calling again?” appears after the
time has counted down to zero, meaning there was no response from the party called.

No response!
Try calling again?

DSC FREQ :

2187.5 KHZ

DESTINATION ID:

123456789

PRIORITY:

SAFETY

Position acknowledge
messsage received.

PRIORITY:

SAFETY

POS :

12 34.0000N
123 45.0000E AT 12:34

Position acknowledge message received

No response

RESEND

CANCEL: STOP ALARM

7. Do one of the following depending on the message displayed at step 6.

Acknowledge message received

1. Press the CANCEL key to silence the alarm. The display looks as below.

POSITION ACKNOWLEDGE

SENDER ID :

123456789

PRIORITY: SAFETY

POS :

12 34N
123 45E AT 12:34 10M10S

*

Received message

*

GO TO VIEW

MAR-23-2006-23:59

2. You can now confirm position of other ship.

No response! Try calling again?

Re-send call: Push the ENTER knob followed by the CALL key.
Cancel call: Press the CANCEL key.

5.7.2

Position call: other ship requests your position

You may turn automatic acknowledge of position request on with “POSITION MESSAGE:
On” on the Auto Ack menu. For further details, see section 6.11.

Automatic reply

When another ship requests your position and the status of the 5/ ACK/SQ key is AUTO
ACK and the setting of POSITION MESSAGE on the Auto ack menu is ON, the equipment
transmits own position data (transmission time: approx. 7 sec.), showing the display below.

Position acknowledge
message in progress!

TIME TO GO :

7S

DSC FREQ :

2187.5 kHz

DESTINATION ID : 123456789

PRIORITY:

SAFETY

POS: 35

°

30N

135

°

30E AT 23:54