Chapter 13: Navtex; Overview; Setting Up Navtex Weather; Incoming Message Alerts - Raymarine E120W Reference Manual

Chapter 13: Navtex

Chapter 13: Navtex

13.1 Overview

The display can be used to view marine safety information including weather forecasts
and marine warnings received from a Navtex receiver. You can select the type of
warning message that will trigger this alert on your display. Once you have read the
received message you can either erase or save it. Your system can store up to 100
messages. Once capacity is reached the oldest messages are automatically deleted to
allow for new incoming messages.
Major areas of NAVTEX coverage include the Mediterranean Sea, The North Sea,
coastal areas around Japan and areas around the North American continent.

13.2 Setting up Navtex weather

Before you are able to view Navtex messages you will need to:
1. Specify for the communicating NMEA port, the baud rate (4,800 or 9,600) applica-
ble to your Navtex receiver (see
2. Enable the category of Navtex messages that you wish to receive alerts for (see
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13.3 Incoming message alerts

Once correctly connected to the Navtex unit, your system will display an alert
containing the message details for any incoming messages it receives from your
chosen categories e.g:
Proceed as follows:
• To remove the alert from the screen, press ERASE, or
• To add the message to the stored list of messages and then remove the alert from
the screen, press SAVE MESSAGE.
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ERASE MESSAGE
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SAVE MESSAGE
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