Table Of Contents - Uniden UM455 Owner's Manual

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Making a DSC DISTRESS Call ......................................................................................... ........ 2
Making a voice distress call ........................................................................................... ........ 2
Table of Contents .................................................................................................4 (this page)
Introduction ....................................................................................................................... ........ 6
Features......................................................................................................................... ........ 6
Manual overview ............................................................................................................ ........ 6
Conventions ................................................................................................................ ........ 6
Terms used in this manual .......................................................................................... ........ 7
Getting Started .................................................................................................................. ........ 8
What's included ......................................................................................................................... ......... 8
Parts of the radio ....................................................................................................................... ......... 9
Turning on the radio .................................................................................................................. ....... 12
Setting the UIC channel mode (USA/CAN/INT) ...................................................................... ....... 12
How It Works ..................................................................................................................... ...... 12
Normal mode operation ................................................................................................. ...... 13
Using the radio in normal mode .................................................................................. ...... 14
Normal mode with Triple and Dual Watch .................................................................. ...... 15
Scan mode..................................................................................................................... ...... 16
Using the radio in scan mode ..................................................................................... ...... 16
Scan mode with Triple and Dual Watch ...................................................................... ...... 17
Using Your Radio .............................................................................................................. ...... 18
Making a voice MAYDAY call ......................................................................................... ...... 19
Setting the volume ......................................................................................................... ...... 19
Setting the squelch level ................................................................................................ ...... 19
Changing the channel .................................................................................................... ...... 20
Making a transmission ................................................................................................... ...... 20
Boosting the transmission power ................................................................................ ...... 20
Choosing Triple Watch or Dual Watch ........................................................................ ...... 21
Changing display and sound options ............................................................................. ...... 22
Contrast ...................................................................................................................... ...... 22
Lamp adjust ................................................................................................................ ...... 22
Turning the key beep on and off ................................................................................. ...... 22
Setting the GPS position manually ................................................................................ ...... 22
Using Digital Selective Calling (DSC) Features ............................................................. ...... 24
What is DSC? ................................................................................................................ ...... 24
Advanced DSC features ................................................................................................ ...... 24
Getting an MMSI number............................................................................................... ...... 25
Entering MMSI numbers ................................................................................................ ...... 25
Individual or user MMSI number ................................................................................. ...... 25
Group MMSI number .................................................................................................. ...... 26
Using the directory ......................................................................................................... ...... 27
Making DSC calls .......................................................................................................... ...... 29
Calling a single station (Individual Call) ...................................................................... ...... 30
Calling a particular group of stations (Group Call) ...................................................... ...... 31
Calling all stations (All-Ships Call) .................................................................................... .......31
Making an automatic distress call .................................................................................... .......32
Canceling an automatic distress call .......................................................................... ...... 32
Receiving a DSC call ..................................................................................................... ...... 33
Receive log .................................................................................................................... ...... 33
Returning a call ........................................................................................................... ...... 34
Making a Test Call (Test) ............................................................................................... ...... 35
Receiving a test call .................................................................................................... ...... 36
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