Kongsberg Seatex AIS 100 Instruction Manual page 70

Seatex AIS 100 Instruction Manual, rev. 5
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O = Draught
P = Ship/Cargo
U = Ship's: length, breadth, type
W = Persons on board
The "Function Reply Status" field provides the status characters for
the "Function Request" information. When a long-range interrogation
request is originated, the "Function Reply Status" field should be null.
The "Function Reply Status" characters are organised in the same
order as the corresponding function identification characters in the
"Function Request" field. The following is a list of the "Function
Reply Status" characters with the status they represent:
2 = Information available and provided in the following LR1, LR2, or
LR3 sentence,
3 = Information not available from AIS unit,
4 = Information is available but not provided (i.e. restricted access
determined by ship's master),
LR1 – Long-range Reply with destination for
function request "A"
The LR1-sentence identifies the destination for the reply and contains
the information requested by the "A" function identification character.
(See the LRF-sentence.)
The three fields, sequence number, MMSI of responder, and MMSI of
requestor are always provided.
The sequence number should be the same number as the sequence
number of the LRI and LRF sentences that initiated this reply.
The characters that can be used are listed in IEC 61162-1, table 2.
Some characters in this table are the reserved characters listed in IEC
61162-1, table 1. Reserved characters may be used, but they must be
represented using the "^-method" (See IEC 61162-1, § 5.1.3.). The
individual information items shall be a null field, if any one of the
following three conditions exist:
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