Sunpentown Intl FM-8800D/8800S Position call other ship requests your position, Automatic reply

Models: FM-8800D/8800S

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3. DSC OPERATION FOR NON-DISTRESS CASES

3.6.2Position 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.

Position auto ack transmitted.

TCmd1 : POSITION

TCmd2 : NO INFO

POS : 12 ° 34'N 123 ° 45'E

AT 12 : 34

CANCEL ALARM

2. Press the CANCEL

key to silence the alarm. The display then looks like the one below, indicating own ship's position.

** Send Message **

POSITION ACK

TO : 123456789

TCmd1 : POSITION

TCmd2 : NO INFO

POS : 12 ° 34'N 123 ° 45'E

AT 12 : 34

PRESS ENT

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.

Position request call received.

FROM : 123456789

ROUTINE

TCmd1 : POSITION

TCmd2 : NO INFO

CANCEL ALARM

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Sunpentown Intl FM-8800D/8800S manual Position call other ship requests your position, Automatic reply, Manual reply