Furuno FM-8900S Manuel D’Utilisation

5.  MENU OPERATION

•  When receiving urgency, safety or routine messages, the contact signal for the cat-

egory selected to ON is output to an external alarm system.

•  When receiving distress alert or distress messages, the contact signal is output to 

an external alarm system regardless of the external alarm setting.

•  When an alarm acknowledgement from an external alarm system is received by the 

transceiver unit or an alarm pop-up message closes (with pressing the CANCEL 
key, etc.), output of the contact signal to an external alarm system is stopped.
Note: An alarm pop-up message or audio alarm for the transceiver unit are not af-
fected by this condition.

You can display the guide for operations, the handset state or the squelch values at 
the bottom left corner of the RT screen.

1. Rotate the CHANNEL/ENTER knob to select [SYSTEM] on the [MENU] screen 

then push the knob.

2. Rotate the CHANNEL/ENTER knob to select [RT APPLICATION] then push the 

knob.

3. Rotate the CHANNEL/ENTER knob to select [GUIDE], [HS STATE] or [SQ 

METER] then push the knob.
[GUIDE]: The guide for operations.
[HS STATE]: The remote handset state.
[SQ METER]: The squelch values for the transceiver unit and the remote handset.

You can register a maximum of 50 MMSIs and address names (max. 20 letters) in the 
memory.

1. Rotate the CHANNEL/ENTER knob to select [DSC] on the [MENU] screen then 

push the knob.

[GUIDE]

[HS STATE]

[SQ METER]

Upper: Transceiver unit
Lower: Remote handset 
(The one which is 
available is highlighted.)