Cobra Electronics MRF45 IfYou TransferYourRadioTo a DifferentVessel, Group Mmsi Number

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DSC Set-Up

Operating Your Radio

IfYou TransferYourRadioTo A DifferentVessel

Contact the MMSI issuing agency from which you obtained your number and change the information associated with your number to correspond to vessel in which it will be mounted.

DSC Set-Up

Operating Your Radio

Group MMSI Number

Nautical organizations such as yacht clubs and the organizers of events such as regattas can establish Group MMSIs. These allow a message to be sent automatically to all members of the group without having to call each

User MMSI

To View Your MMSI Number At Any Time:

1. Enter the Settings menu and scroll to

USER MMSI with the Up/Down buttons.

one individually.

Each member of the group must enter the Group MMSI number in his radio in order to receive group messages.

User MMSI ID Entry

DSC Scan

On/Off

2.

Press the Call/Set button and the blinking

 

cursor will appear at the first digit of your

 

already entered number under USER MMSI

 

ID ENTRY.

3.

Press and hold the Call/Set button to

 

return to the Settings menu.

DSC Scanning

If you choose not to have your radio scan Channel 70, you can turn DSC Scanning Off. If you do so, you can still send DSC messages, but will not hear DSC alarms nor receive DSC messages except when you are tuned to Channel 70 or you have sent a distress message.

The acknowledgement to the distress message will be received whether DSC Scanning is On or Off.

To Turn DSC Scanning On Or Off:

1.Enter the Settings menu and scroll to DSC SCAN with the Up/Down buttons.

2.Press the Call/Set button and observe the current setting — ON or OFF.

3.Use the Up/Down buttons to select the setting that you want.

4.Press the Call/Set button to return to the Settings menu.

Group MMSI

Group MMSI ID Entry

To Enter A Group MMSI Number:

1.Enter the Settings menu and scroll to GROUP MMSI with the Up/Down buttons.

2.Press the Call/Set button and the blinking cursor will appear at the first digit under GROUP MMSI ID ENTRY.

3.Use the Up/Down buttons to scroll through the number list to that digit of your number.

4.Press the Call/Set button to select the digit and the blinking cursor will move to the next digit of the number.

5.Repeat steps 3 and 4 until all nine (9) digits of the group MMSI number are entered.

NOTE

Press the High/Low Power button to backspace and erase the last selected number.

6.Check that you have entered the number correctly.

7.Press and hold the Call/Set button to return to the Settings menu.

The group MMSI is established by modifying the MMSI assigned to one (1) of the group members. The last digit of that member’s MMSI number is dropped and a zero (0) is inserted at the beginning. For example, member MMSI number 366123456 becomes group MMSI number 036612345.

Group MMSIs can be entered and changed any number of times without encountering the need to have your radio reset.

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