Transmitting And Individual Call To An Ais Ship; Ais Range - Standard Horizon GX2150 Owner's Manual

13.7.1 Transmitting and Individual Call to an AIS Ship

It is possible for the GX2000 or GX2150 to transmit a DSC Individual call to a
received AIS target by the procedure below:
1. Press the one of the soft keys momentarily, then
press the
2. Rotate the CHANNEL knob to select the operating
channel you want to communicate on and press the
CHANNEL knob. If the channel you want is not
shown, press the
CHANNEL knob to select the operating channel you
want to communicate on, then press the CHANNEL
knob.
3. To transmit a Individual DSC call to the select AIS
ship, press the CHANNEL knob again.
After the GX2000 (when connected to an external
AIS) or GX2150 transmits, the radio waits for the
DSC radio on the AIS ship to transmit an reply, at
which time the radio will ring like a telephone. Pick
up the mic and press the PTT and hail the AIS ves-
sel.
4. Press the
5. Press the

13.8 AIS RANGE

You may change the display range of the AIS screen.
Press the one of the soft key momentarily, then press
the key to display the range selection
screen. Rotate the CHANNEL knob to select the
desired range and
You may change the display range unit of the AIS screen, refer to sec-
tion "10.8 UNIT OF MEASURE".
GX2000/GX2150
soft key.
soft key, then rotate the
soft key to return to AIS screen.
key to return to radio screen.
soft key to save the new range.
NOTE
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