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2 position call: other ship requests your position – Furuno FS-1570 User Manual

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5 CALLING, RECEIVING

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13.

Do one of the following depending on the message displayed at step 12.


Acknowledge call received

The audio alarm sounds; press the [CANCEL] key to silence the alarm. The display looks as
below. You can now confirm position of other ship.

POSITION ACKNOWLEDGE

FROM SHIP :

123456789

ROUTINE

POS :

12˚34N 123˚45E AT 12:34

*

Received message

*

GO TO ALL VIEW

MAR-23-2002-23:59 ECC: OK

No response! Try calling again?

Re-send call:

Push the [ENTER] knob followed by the [CALL] key.

Cancel call:

Press the [CANCEL] key.

5.8.2 Position call: other ship requests your position

You may turn automatic acknowledge of position request on or off with POSITION CALL in
the AUTO ACK menu. For further details, see page 8-3.

Automatic reply

1. When another ship requests your position and the status of the [5/ ACK/SQ] key is

AUTO ACK and the setting of POSITION CALL on the Auto ack menu is ON, the
FS-1570/2570 transmits own position data (transmission time: approx. 7 sec.), showing
the display below.

Position auto ack
call in progress!

TIME TO GO :

7S

DSC FREQ :

2177.0 KHZ

TO SHIP :

123456789

ROUTINE

2. After the call is sent the audio alarm sounds and the display below appears.

Position auto ack
call transmitted.

TO SHIP:

123456789

ROUTINE

STOP ALARM