Position Call: Other Ship Requests Your Position - Furuno FM-8800D Operator's Manual

3. DSC OPERATION FOR NON-DISTRESS CASES
3.6.2

Position call: other ship requests your position

You may turn automatic acknowledge of position request on or off with
POSITION CALL in the system setup menu. For further details, see page 4-3.
Automatic reply
1. When another ship requests your position, the status of the 5 ACK key is
AUTO ACK and the setting of POSITION CALL on the system setup menu is
ON, the FM-8800D/S transmits own position data, showing the display below.
2. Press the CANCEL
key to silence the alarm. The display then looks like the one below, indicating
own ship's position.
Manual reply
1. When a position request call is received and the setting of POSITION CALL
on the system setup menu is OFF, the audio alarm sounds and the display
changes as below.
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Position auto ack
transmitted.
TCmd1 : POSITION
TCmd2 : NO INFO
°
POS : 12 34'N 123
AT 12 : 34
CANCEL ALARM
** Send Message **
POSITION ACK
TO : 123456789
TCmd1 : POSITION
TCmd2 : NO INFO
°
POS : 12
34'N 123
AT 12 : 34
PRESS ENT
Position request
call received.
FROM : 123456789
ROUTINE
TCmd1 : POSITION
TCmd2 : NO INFO
CANCEL ALARM
°
45'E
°
45'E