Furuno FM-8900S Operator's Manual page 51

Send able/unable acknowledge manually
When an individual call is received with the setting [MANUAL] on the [ACK SET-
TINGS] menu, the audio alarm sounds and the pop-up message "ROUTINE (SAFE-
TY, URGENCY) INDIVIDUAL message received! [CANCEL]: Stop alarm" appears on
the screen as below.
Press the CANCEL key to silence the audio alarm and erase the pop-up message.
There are three types of ACK transmission; able acknowledge, able to change chan-
nel and unable acknowledge. Follow the appropriate procedure below.
• How to send able acknowledge call
1. With [ACCEPT] selected, push the CHANNEL/ENTER knob to send the able
acknowledge call.
2. Communicate by radiotelephone.
3. After you have completed communications, rotate the CHANNEL/ENTER knob
to select [QUIT] in the user options area then push the knob.
• How to send unable acknowledge call
1. Rotate the CHANNEL/ENTER knob to select [UNABLE] in the user options
area then push the knob.
[ SELECT AN ACK ]
INDIVIDUAL MSG
MSG TYPE
TO
PRIORITY
COMM MODE
REASON
COMM CH
2. With [REASON] selected, push the CHANNEL/ENTER knob.
4. DSC GENERAL MESSAGE CALLING, RECEIVING
ACCEPT
UNABLE
ELAPSED T I ME : 00H01M15S
: INDIVIDUAL ACK
: 123456789
: ROUTINE
: UNABLE TO COMPLY
: NO REASON
: 06
NO REASON
BUSY
EQUIP ERROR
CAN'T USE CH
CAN'T USE MODE
QUEUE INDICATION
STATION BARRED
OPERATOR ABSENT
TEMP. UNAVAILABLE
PROPOSE
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