Creating A New Safety Message - Furuno FCR-2107 Series Operator's Manual

5. AIS Operation
5.16.2

Creating a new safety message

You can create a safety message for transmission by the AIS transponder. This can be done as follows:
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1. Display Menu/Info/Chart Menu in the guidance area then push the left button
to open the Main menu.
2. Select Safety Message from the menu then push the scrollwheel.
3. Place the cursor on the triangle in the menu to show the submenu.
4. Select Create Message from the menu then push the scrollwheel.
Address box
Message type box
Channel box
5. Check Enable changes.
6. Place the cursor in the Address box. Spin the scrollwheel to select
Addressed to MMSI or Broadcast to All as appropriate then push the
scrollwheel. Select Addressed to MMSI to send the message to a specific
ship (AIS equipped) or Broadcast to All to send to all nearby AIS
transponder-equipped ships. For Addressed to MMSI, enter MMSI of ship in
the MMSI input box, in the Vessel window.
7. Select message type at Message type box: Safety message for safety
message, Binary message for routine message.
8. At the Channel box, select channel over which to broadcast your message.
The choices are Channel A; Channel B; Channel A and Channel B and Don't
care for channel.
9. Enter the text of your message in the box below Channel. The number of
characters which may be entered depends on message type.
Safety message broadcast:
Binary message broadcast:
Safety message addressed to MMSI: 156 characters
Binary message addressed to MMSI: 151 characters
161 characters
156 characters