Furuno USA 9ZWFM8900S Users Manual
OPERATOR'S MANUAL
VHF RADIOTELEPHONE
MODEL
FM-8900S
www.furuno.com
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(YOTA ) FM-8900S
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IMPORTANT NOTICES
General
• This manual has been authored with simplified grammar, to meet the needs of international users.
• The operator of this equipment must read and follow the descriptions in this manual. Wrong operation or maintenance can cancel the warranty or cause injury.
• Do not copy any part of this manual without written permission from FURUNO.
• If this manual is lost or worn, contact your dealer about replacement.
• The contents of this manual and equipment specifications can change without notice.
• The example screens (or illustrations) shown in this manual can be different from the screens
you see on your display. The screens you see depend on your system configuration and equipment settings.
• Save this manual for future reference.
• Any modification of the equipment (including software) by persons not authorized by FURUNO
will cancel the warranty.
• All brand and product names are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of their
respective holders.
How to discard this product
Discard this product according to local regulations for the disposal of industrial waste. For disposal
in the USA, see the homepage of the Electronics Industries Alliance (http://www.eiae.org/) for the
correct method of disposal.
How to discard a used battery
Some FURUNO products have a battery(ies). To see if your product has a battery, see the chapter
on Maintenance. Follow the instructions below if a battery is used. Tape the + and - terminals of
battery before disposal to prevent fire, heat generation caused by short circuit.
In the European Union
The crossed-out trash can symbol indicates that all types of batteries
must not be discarded in standard trash, or at a trash site. Take the
used batteries to a battery collection site according to your national
legislation and the Batteries Directive 2006/66/EU.
In the USA
The Mobius loop symbol (three chasing arrows) indicates that Ni-Cd
and lead-acid rechargeable batteries must be recycled. Take the
used batteries to a battery collection site according to local laws.
In the other countries
Ni-Cd Pb
Cd
There are no international standards for the battery recycle symbol. The number of symbols can
increase when the other countries make their own recycle symbols in the future.
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SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
The user must read the appropriate safety instructions before attempting to install or operate
the equipment.
Indicates a condition that can cause death or serious injury
WARNING
CAUTION
Warning, Caution Prohibitive Action Mandatory Action
if not avoided.
Indicates a condition that can cause minor or moderate
injury if not avoided.
WARNING
Do not open the equipment.
Hazardous voltage which can cause
electrical shock, burn or serious
injury exists inside the equipment.
Only qualified personnel should work
inside the equipment.
Do not approach the antenna
closer than listed below when it
is transmitting.
The antenna emits radio waves that
can be harmful to the human body.
RF power density on
antenna aperture
100 W/m
10 W/m
2 W/m
(MPE: Minimum Permissible Exposure)
Immediately turn off the power at
the switchboard if water leaks into
the equipment or the equipment is
emitting smoke or fire.
Continued use of the equipment can
cause fire or electrical shock. Contact
a FURUNO agent for service.
Do not disassemble or modify the
equipment.
Fire, electrical shock or serious injury
can result.
Do not place liquid-filled containers
on the top of the equipment.
Fire or electrical shock can result if a
liquid spills into the equipment.
2
2
2
Distance
0.12 m
0.39 m
0.89 m
Description
required by
IEC 60945
IEC 60945
MPE by FCC
WARNING
Do not operate the equipment with
wet hands.
Electrical shock can result.
Turn off the power immediately if you
feel the equipment is behaving
abnormally.
Turn off the power at the switchboard if
the equipment becomes abnormally
warm or is emitting odd noises. Contact
a FURUNO dealer or agent for advice.
Make sure no rain or water splash
leaks into the equipment.
Fire or electrical shock can result if
water leaks in the equipment.
Use the proper fuse.
Use of the wrong fuse can cause fire or
electrical shock.
Any repair work must be done by a
licensed radio technician.
Improper repair work can cause fire or
electrical shock.
Do not operate the [DISTRESS] key
except in case of a life-endangering
situation on your vessel.
Operating the [DISTRESS] key
transmits the distress alert. Accidental
transmission may prevent search and
rescue operations for actual emergency.
If the distress alert is accidentally
transmitted, contact the nearest station
to cancel the alert.
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SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
CAUTION
If the distress alert is accidentally
transmitted, contact the nearest
coast station and inform them of the
accidental
following data:
a) Ship's name
b) Ship's call sign and DSC number
c) Position at time of transmission
d) Time of transmission
transmission, providing the
Do not touch any part of the
antenna when the equipment is
transmitting.
Electrical shock can result.
Do not apply strong pressure to
the LCD, which is made of glass.
Injury can result if the LCD breaks.
CAUTION
WARNING LABELS
Warning labels are attached to the equipment. Do not remove any label. If a label is missing or
damaged, contact a FURUNO agent or dealer about replacement.
Name: Warning Label 1
Type: 86-003-1011-3
Code No.: 100-236-233-10
Name: Warning Label
Type: 14-055-4202-1
Code No.: 100-245-221-10
Name: High Temp Warning Label
Type: 05-089-2142-0
Code No.: 100-301-620-00
About the TFT LCD
The TFT LCD is constructed using the latest LCD techniques, and displays
99.99% of its pixels. The remaining 0.01% of the pixels may drop out or
blink, however this is not an indication of malfunction.
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DISTRESS ALERT
How to send a distress alert
Below is the procedure for transmitting a distress alert via radiotelephone. Transmit the distress
alert when a life-endangering situation occurs on your vessel.
1. Open the DISTRESS key cover then press and hold the DISTRESS key for four seconds. The
following screen appears.
Countdown message
2. When the message "Sending DISTRESS ALERT." appears on the screen, release the DISTRESS key. The audio alarm sounds for two seconds.
After the distress alert has been sent, the following screens appear in order.
When distress
acknowledge
call is received
by coast station
3. The audio alarm sounds. Press the CANCEL key to silence the audio alarm.
4. Communicate with the coast station via radiotelephone (CH16) as below.
a) Say “MAYDAY” three times.
b) Say “This is ...” name of your ship and call sign three times.
c) Give nature of distress and assistance needed.
d) Give description of your ship (type, color, number of persons onboard, etc.).
Note: If you do not receive the distress alert acknowledge call, the equipment automatically retransmits the distress alert after 3 min 30 seconds to 4 min 30 seconds. Then the equipment
awaits the distress alert acknowledge call. This is repeated until the distress alert is acknowledged.
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DISTRESS ALERT
How to cancel the distress alert
You can cancel the distress alert while it is being sent or while waiting for its acknowledgement as
follows.
1. Rotate the CHANNEL/ENTER knob to select [CANCEL] in the user options area then push
the knob.
The following message appears on the screen.
2. Rotate the CHANNEL/ENTER knob to select [Yes] then push the knob to send the distress
cancel call on CH70. After transmitting the distress cancel call, the following message appears on the screen.
3. Push the CHANNEL/ENTER knob to erase the message. The following message appears on
the screen.
4. Communicate with all ships via radiotelephone referring to the message at step 3.
5. Push the CHANNEL/ENTER knob. The following message appears on the screen.
6. With [Finish] selected, push the CHANNEL/ENTER knob.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD ...................................................................................................................ix
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION ..........................................................................................xi
1. OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW .................................................................................1-1
1.1 Controls ...................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.2 How to Turn On/Off the Power...................................................................................1-2
1.3 Radiotelephone (RT) Screen .....................................................................................1-2
1.4 How to Adjust the Brilliance of the Display and Panel ............................................... 1-3
1.5 How to Select the Channel Region, Channel.............................................................1-3
1.6 Transmission.............................................................................................................. 1-4
1.7 How to Turn On/Off the Loudspeaker ........................................................................1-5
1.8 Quick Selection of CH16 ............................................................................................ 1-5
1.9 How to Scan Dual Channels (DW).............................................................................1-5
1.10 How to Scan All Channels.......................................................................................... 1-6
1.11 How to Set the Auto Acknowledgement.....................................................................1-7
1.12 Priority of the System ................................................................................................. 1-7
1.13 Intercom ..................................................................................................................... 1-8
1.14 Operation of Session.................................................................................................. 1-9
1.15 Replay Function ....................................................................................................... 1-12
2. DSC OVERVIEW....................................................................................................2-1
2.1 What is DSC?............................................................................................................. 2-1
2.2 DSC Messages .......................................................................................................... 2-1
2.3 Audio Alarms.............................................................................................................. 2-2
2.4 Description of Call Screens........................................................................................2-3
2.4.1 RX calls .......................................................................................................... 2-3
2.4.2 TX calls .......................................................................................................... 2-4
3. DSC DISTRESS OPERATIONS ............................................................................3-1
3.1 How to Send a Distress Alert ..................................................................................... 3-1
3.1.1 How to send a distress alert by DISTRESS key with distress information
not edited ....................................................................................................... 3-1
3.1.2 How to send a distress alert by DISTRESS key with distress information
edited ............................................................................................................. 3-3
3.2 How to Receive a Distress Alert................................................................................. 3-4
3.3 How to Send a Distress Relay on Behalf of a Ship in Distress ................................ 3-10
3.3.1 How to send a distress relay to a coast station............................................ 3-10
3.3.2 How to send a distress relay to all ships...................................................... 3-11
3.4 How to Receive a Distress Relay............................................................................. 3-13
3.5 How to Cancel the Distress Alert ............................................................................. 3-13
4. DSC GENERAL MESSAGE CALLING, RECEIVING............................................4-1
4.1 Individual Call.............................................................................................................4-1
4.1.1 How to send an individual call........................................................................4-1
4.1.2 How to receive an individual call .................................................................... 4-4
4.2 Group Call ..................................................................................................................4-6
4.2.1 How to send a group call................................................................................ 4-6
4.2.2 How to receive a group call............................................................................ 4-7
4.3 PSTN Call .................................................................................................................. 4-8
4.3.1 How to send a PSTN call ...............................................................................4-8
4.3.2 How to receive a PSTN call ......................................................................... 4-10
4.3.3 Note after sending a PSTN call.................................................................... 4-10
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4.4 All Ships Call ............................................................................................................4-11
4.4.1 How to send an all ships call........................................................................4-11
4.4.2 How to receive an all ships call ....................................................................4-12
4.5 Position Call..............................................................................................................4-13
4.5.1 How to request other ship's position.............................................................4-13
4.5.2 Other ship requests your position.................................................................4-15
4.6 How to Receive a Polling Request ...........................................................................4-15
4.6.1 Automatic reply.............................................................................................4-15
4.6.2 Manual reply.................................................................................................4-16
4.7 Neutral Craft Call ......................................................................................................4-16
4.7.1 How to send a neutral craft call....................................................................4-16
4.7.2 How to receive a neutral craft call ................................................................4-17
4.8 Medical Transport Call..............................................................................................4-18
4.8.1 How to send a medical transport call ...........................................................4-18
4.8.2 How to receive a medical transport call........................................................4-19
5. MENU OPERATION ..............................................................................................5-1
5.1 How to Open/Close the MENU Screen ......................................................................5-1
5.2 Handset Volume Setting.............................................................................................5-2
5.3 Channel Setting..........................................................................................................5-2
5.3.1 Channel region...............................................................................................5-2
5.3.2 Memory ..........................................................................................................5-2
5.4 Memory Configuration ................................................................................................5-3
5.5 How to Print Messages...............................................................................................5-4
5.6 Position Setting...........................................................................................................5-4
5.7 Date and Time Setting................................................................................................5-5
5.8 Timeout Setting ..........................................................................................................5-5
5.9 How to Name the Terminal for Intercom.....................................................................5-6
5.10 Automatic Switch to CH16 ..........................................................................................5-7
5.11 External Alarm Setting ................................................................................................5-7
5.12 RT Application Setting ................................................................................................5-8
5.13 Address Book .............................................................................................................5-8
5.13.1 List for address data.......................................................................................5-8
5.13.2 How to register addresses..............................................................................5-9
5.13.3 How to edit addresses..................................................................................5-10
5.13.4 How to delete addresses..............................................................................5-11
5.13.5 How to create a DSC message with registered address..............................5-11
5.14 TX Message Preparation..........................................................................................5-12
5.14.1 List for message files....................................................................................5-12
5.14.2 Individual calls ..............................................................................................5-13
5.14.3 Group calls ...................................................................................................5-14
5.14.4 PSTN calls....................................................................................................5-15
5.14.5 Test calls ......................................................................................................5-15
5.14.6 How to edit prepared messages...................................................................5-16
5.14.7 How to send prepared messages.................................................................5-16
5.14.8 How to delete prepared messages...............................................................5-17
5.15 Log File.....................................................................................................................5-17
5.15.1 How to open a log file...................................................................................5-17
5.15.2 How to delete log files ..................................................................................5-18
5.16 How to Set the AUTO ACK Details...........................................................................5-19
5.17 Special Messages ....................................................................................................5-20
5.18 Propose Channel Setting..........................................................................................5-20
5.19 Sound Setting...........................................................................................................5-20
5.20 Alarm Lists................................................................................................................5-21
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6. REMOTE HANDSET..............................................................................................6-1
6.1 Controls ...................................................................................................................... 6-1
6.2 How to Turn On/Off the Power...................................................................................6-2
6.3 Radiotelephone (RT) Screen .....................................................................................6-2
6.4 How to Adjust the Brilliance and Contrast .................................................................. 6-3
6.5 How to Select the Channel Region, Channel.............................................................6-3
6.6 Transmission.............................................................................................................. 6-4
6.7 How to Turn On/Off the Loudspeaker ........................................................................ 6-5
6.8 Quick Selection of CH16 ............................................................................................ 6-5
6.9 Intercom .....................................................................................................................6-5
6.10 How to Change the Terminal ID................................................................................. 6-6
6.11 Audio setting .............................................................................................................. 6-6
6.12 How to Test FM-8900S from a Remote Handset....................................................... 6-8
6.13 How to Display the Program Versions ....................................................................... 6-8
6.14 Squelch ...................................................................................................................... 6-8
7. MAINTENANCE & TROUBLESHOOTING ............................................................7-1
7.1 Daily Test ...................................................................................................................7-1
7.2 Maintenance............................................................................................................... 7-2
7.3 Simple Troubleshooting .............................................................................................7-2
7.4 Warning and Caution Messages................................................................................7-3
7.5 Test Call ..................................................................................................................... 7-4
APPENDIX 1 MENU TREE .......................................................................................AP-1
APPENDIX 2 MARINE VHF CHANNEL LISTS ........................................................AP-3
APPENDIX 3 ABBREVIATIONS LIST....................................................................AP-13
APPENDIX 4 DIGITAL INTERFACE (IEC 61162-1)...............................................AP-15
APPENDIX 5 PARTS LIST......................................................................................AP-20
APPENDIX 6 PARTS LOCATION...........................................................................AP-21
SPECIFICATIONS .....................................................................................................SP-1
INDEX..........................................................................................................................IN-1
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FOREWORD
A Word to the Owner of the FM-8900S
Congratulations on your choice of the FURUNO FM-8900S VHF Radiotelephone. We are confident you will see why the FURUNO name has become synonymous with quality and reliability.
Since 1948, FURUNO Electric Company has enjoyed an enviable reputation for innovative and
dependable marine electronics equipment. This dedication to excellence is furthered by our extensive global network of agents and dealers.
Your equipment is designed and constructed to meet the rigorous demands of the marine environment. However, no machine can perform its intended function unless properly installed and
maintained. Please carefully read and follow the operation and maintenance procedures set forth
in this manual.
We would appreciate feedback from you, the end-user, about whether we are achieving our purposes.
Thank you for considering and purchasing FURUNO equipment.
Features
The FM-8900S is a cost-effective all-in-one marine VHF radio system consisting of a 25 W VHF
radiotelephone, a DSC modem, and a CH70 watchkeeping receiver. It complies with GMDSS carriage requirements for safety and general communications.
The FM-8900S offers semi-duplex voice communication on ITU channels in the marine mobile
VHF band. The features include Scanning Dual Channels (DW) which allows a continuous watch
on CH16 and another selected frequency.
Data is displayed on a large, easy-to-read color LCD. Operation is simplified by the use of few
keys and easy-to-follow menus.
The built-in DSC function produces and receives digital selective callings for quick and efficient
establishment of distress, urgency, safety and routine communications with other ships and coast
stations that install any VHF DSC facilities.
Full Class-A DSC functions are provided for distress alert transmission and reception, as well as
the general call formats (Individual telephone, All Ships, and Group call). Distress alert can be
readily transmitted but an arrangement is provided to prevent accidental activation. The FM8900S maintains a continuous watch on CH70 even while another VHF channel is in use. Aural
and visual alarms are given to incoming DSC messages.
The main features are
General
• Fully meets the following regulations: EN 300 698-1, EN 301 925, ITU-R M.493-13,
ITU-R M.541-9, ITU-R M.689-2, EN 300 338-1, EN 300 338-2.
• Automatic entry of position with manual override
• Optional printer can automatically print out DSC received messages and test results.
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FOREWORD
DSC
• Distress, urgency, safety and routine calling
• File editing capability for readiness in case of emergency
• PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) capability standard
• Log stores 50 each of latest general, distress and transmitted messages, in separate memory
blocks.
• Selectable an address from the AIS targets list with connection of FURUNO AIS Transponder/
Receiver
VHF
• Voice communication
• Scanning of channels on VHF
• Simplified setting of channel
• Replay of the latest receiving voice, which is automatically recorded, for 120 seconds
• Max. 4 remote stations (RB-8900) can be connected (not available for DSC function).
Program Number
Location PC board Program No. Version
FM-8900S MAIN (05P0843) 0550249 01.xx
HS-8900 HS CONT (05P0781B) 0550250 01.xx
xx: minor change
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SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
PRINTER
PP-510
HANDSET
HS-2003
EXTERNAL
LOUDSPEAKER
SEM-21Q
PRINTER
PP-510/
PP-8800A
PRINTER
INTERFACE
IF-8500
OTHER
RADIO
TRX
ANT
TRANSCEIVER
FM-8900S
CH70
RX ANT
UNIT
JUNCTION
BOX
IF-8900
NAV
EQUIPMENT
VDR
ALARM
SYSTEM
ALARM UNIT
IC-350
INS/AIS/
PLOTTER
MIC RECEPTACLE
BOX RBD-VHF (B)
MIC RECEPTACLE
BOX RBD-VHF (B)
REMOTE STATION
RB-8900/RB-8900-W
REMOTE STATION
RB-8900/RB-8900-W
ANALOG WING
HANDSET
HS-6000FZ5/
HS-6000FZ11
ANALOG WING
HANDSET
HS-6000FZ5/
HS-6000FZ11
AC/DC POWER
SUPPLY UNIT
PR-240
24 VDC
100-115/200-230 VAC
1ø, 50/60 Hz
Environmental category
Antenna units: Exposed to the weather
All other units: Protected from the weather
24 VDC
Battery
REMOTE STATION
RB-8900/RB-8900-W
REMOTE STATION
RB-8900/RB-8900-W
: STANDARD
: OPTIONAL or LOCAL SUPPLY
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