Chapter 6: Menu Settings

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Chapter 6: Menu Settings

6.1 Menu Function

The radio’s setup functions are accessed through the Menu mode. Menu mode selections are as follows.

Item

Description

 

 

PHONEBOOK

A list of frequently-called DSC stations that you can select for making an

 

Individual Call. Up to 20 Phonebook entries can be stored.

 

 

LOCAL/DIST

LOCAL mode eliminates noise, but degrades receiver sensitivity.

 

DISTANT mode enables normal receiver sensitivity.

 

 

BACKLIGHTING

Selects the backlight levels for the LCD, main unit keypad and microphone

 

keypad.

 

 

CONTRAST

Selects the LCD contrast setting.

 

 

GPS/TIME

Used to manually set latitude/longitude position and UTC time for a DSC

 

distress message. Also selects how the data is displayed on the LCD.

 

 

RADIO SETUP

Selects four separate radio settings:

 

a) BAND – Frequency Group (US, International, Canadian)

 

b) CH NAME – Descriptive name for each channel (up to 12 characters)

 

c) RING VOLUME – Alert tone volume (LOUD or SOFT)

 

d) KEY BEEP – Key beep volume (LOUD, SOFT or OFF)

 

 

DSC SETUP

Selects the following DSC settings:

 

a) MY MMSI ID – Used for one-time entry of the MMSI number required for

 

DSC functions. If already programmed, displays the

 

saved MMSI ID number.

 

b) GROUP SETUP – Stores up to 3 Group MMSI IDs and associated Names

 

c) POS REPLY – Selects how Position Request data is transmitted

 

d) AUTO CH CHG – Selects whether your radio automatically switches to

 

the requested working channel when DSC Calls are

 

received.

 

 

RESET

Enables a return to factory default settings.

 

 

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Raymarine Ray54 manual Menu Settings, Menu Function