Tabla De Contenido - West Marine VHF550 Manual Del Usuario

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Making a Distress Call ........
Making a voice distress
call .................. Inside Front Cover
Table of Contents .....................
Introduction ...................................4
Features .....................................4
Manual overview ........................4
Conventions.............................4
Terms.used.in.this.manual. . ......5
Getting Started ..............................6
What's included ............................. 6
Parts of the radio ........................... 7
Turning on the radio ..................... 10
Setting the UIC channel mode .... 10
How it Works ...............................10
Normal mode operation ............ 11.
Using the radio in normal
mode......................................12.
Normal mode with Weather
Alert Watch.............................12
Normal.mode.with.Triple.
Watch.....................................13
Normal mode with both Weather
Alert and Triple Watch............13
Scan mode ...............................14
Using the radio in scan
mode......................................14
Scan mode with Weather Alert
Watch.....................................15.
Scan mode with Triple Watch.15
Scan mode with both Weather
Alert and Triple Watch............16.
Weather mode ..........................16
Using the radio in weather
mode......................................16
Weather mode with Weather
Alert Watch.............................17
Weather mode with Triple
Watch.....................................17.
Using Your Radio ........................18
Making a voice MAYDAY
call ............................................19
Setting the volume ...................19
Setting the squelch level ..........19
Changing the channel ..............20
Making a transmission .............20
Boosting.the.transmission...
Inside
Front Cover
2
Using Digital Selective Calling
(DSC) Features............................25
Renaming Channels ...................37
Installing the Hardware ..............38
E-2
power. . ....................................20
Using FIPS codes for weather
alerts ........................................21
Changing display and sound
options ......................................23
Contrast. . ................................23
Lamp.adjust. . ..........................23
Turning.the.key.beep.on.and...
off...........................................23
Setting the alarm ......................24
What is DSC? ...........................25
Advanced DSC features ...........25
Getting an MMSI number .........26
Entering MMSI numbers ..........26
Individual.or.user.MMSI.......
number...................................26
Group.MMSI.number. . ............27
Using the directory ...................28
Making DSC calls .....................30
Calling.a.single.station.
(Individual.Call). . .....................31
Calling.a.particular.group.of...
stations.(Group.Call)..............32
Calling.all.stations.(All-Ships..
Call)..........................................32
Making.an.automatic.distress...
call............................................33
Receiving a DSC call ...............33
Receive log ..............................33.
Requesting another station's
position (POS Request) ...........34
Receiving a position request
(POS Reply) .............................34
Enabling.automatic.position.......
reply. . ......................................35
Sending your own position
(POSSend) ................................35
Putting the radio into standby ....35
Disabling automatic channel
switching ....................................36
Mounting the radio ...................38
Connecting the radio ................40
Connecting accessories ...........42
Connecting.to.a.GPS...............