Neutral Craft Call; Sending A Neutral Craft Call - Furuno FS-5070 Operator's Manual

5.4

Neutral Craft Call

The neutral craft call, which contains own ship position and ID, informs all ships that your
ship is not a participant in armed conflict. The neutral craft call is necessary the setting on
the Setup menu. See section "6.15 Special Messages".
5.4.1

Sending a neutral craft call

1. Press the 2/DSC key.
Select Message
GENERAL
RELAY AREA
INDIVIDUAL
PSTN MESSAGE
RELAY COAST
TEST MESSAGE
DISTRESS
GROUP MESSAGE
AREA MESSAGE
SPECIAL
POSITION
MMSI 123456789
POS 12 34.5678N
123 45.6789E
2. Rotate the ENTER knob to choose SPECIAL and NEUTRAL in order and then push the
ENTER knob.
3. Push the ENTER knob to open the AREA menu and enter the area range as shown on
page 5-16.
4. Push the ENTER knob to open the COM. MODE menu.
5. Rotate the ENTER knob to choose communication type desired (TELEPHONE or
NBDP-FEC) and then push the ENTER knob.
6. Push the ENTER knob to open the DSC FREQ menu.
**
Compose message
2187.5
: Neutral
4207.5
MSG TYPE
craft
6312.0
: Safety
8414.5
AREA: 44 N 125
12577.0
: Telephone
PRIORITY
16804.5
:2187.5 kHz
COMM MODE
DSC FREQ
GO TO VIEW
7. Rotate the ENTER knob to choose appropriate frequency and then push the ENTER
knob.
Compose msg.
MSG TYPE : NEUTRAL
CRAFT
AREA : 44 N 140 W 10
PRIORITY : URGENCY
COMM MODE : TELEPHONE
COMM FREQ : 2182.0 kHz
DSC FREQ :
2187.5 kHz
GO TO VIEW
DISTRESS
UTC 01:53
EPFS 01:54
**
kHz
VIEW
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5. ROUTINE MESSAGE CALLING, RECEVING
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