Furuno FS-1575 FS-2575 FS-5075 User Manual

10.  NBDP TRANSMISSION, RECEPTION

This section shows you how to communicate with a coast station which handles auto-
matic telex transmission, using macrofiles. You need to register communication chan-
nels and stations, and prepare macrofiles.

The coast stations using automatic telex are MCI Marine Services (North America), 
Sydney Radio (Australia), Lyngby Radio (Denmark), and others. The procedure is 
mostly common to all coast stations, however refer to the coast station's traffic manual 
for details.

The services available in automatic telex are

•  Message transfer between ship and coast station (store-and-forward)
•  Connection with landline telex (direct dialing)
• Multi address

You need to register the following three items to use automatic telex.

The coast station assigns a telex number. This number functions as an answerback 
code. An answerback code contains the following:

The procedure to register the answerback code is the same as which appears in 
paragraph 8.1.1. If an answerback code was registered before the commissioning of 

•  Answerback code

•  Scan groups

•  Station names

INTERNATIONAL 
TELEX NETWORK

STORE-AND-

FORWARD

DIRECT 

DIALING

MULTI-

ADDRESS

CENTRAL 

SYSTEM

SYSTEM 

CONTROL

SUB-STATION

SHIP

OOOOO  SHIP  X

OOOOO: Coast station-assigned five-digit telex code
SHIP:      Ship name
X:            For shipboard station, normally X is entered