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1 Glossary............................................................................................... 3
2 Notices ................................................................................................. 5
2.1 Safety warnings ................................................................................................................................. 5
2.2 General notices.................................................................................................................................. 5
2.3 Regulatory information....................................................................................................................... 6
3 Introduction ......................................................................................... 8
3.1 About AIS........................................................................................................................................... 8
3.2 Typical Coast Station system installation .......................................................................................... 9
3.3 Coast Station modes of operation ................................................................................................... 10
3.4 Internal data logging ........................................................................................................................ 10
4 Connections and status indicators ................................................. 11
5 Installation and configuration.......................................................... 12
5.1 What’s in the box ............................................................................................................................. 12
5.2 Preparing for installation .................................................................................................................. 13
5.3 Network configuration ...................................................................................................................... 14
5.4 Resetting the Coast Station ............................................................................................................. 16
6 Coast Station data communication protocol ................................. 17
6.1 Setting the Coast Station name ....................................................................................................... 17
6.2 Heartbeat output .............................................................................................................................. 18
6.3 Coast Station control sentences ...................................................................................................... 18
7 Configuration using proAtoN .......................................................... 21
7.1 proAtoN Installation ......................................................................................................................... 21
7.2 Connection of the Coast Station to a PC ......................................................................................... 21
7.3 Application layout............................................................................................................................. 22
7.4 Transceiver configuration ................................................................................................................ 23
7.5 Transceiver diagnostics ................................................................................................................... 30
7.6 Other features.................................................................................................................................. 32
8 Technical specification ....................................................................33
8.1 Applicable equipment standards...................................................................................................... 33
8.2 AIS Transceiver specification .......................................................................................................... 33
8.3 Drawings and dimensions................................................................................................................ 35
9 Warranty ............................................................................................36
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