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Operating Your Radio Digital Select Calling (DSC) Setup If You Transfer Your Radio To A Different Vessel Contact the MMSI issuing agency from which you obtained your number and change the information associated with your number to correspond to vessel in which it will be mounted. User MMSI User MMSI ID Entry To View Your MMSI Number At Any Time: 1. Enter the Settings menu and scroll to USER MMSI with the Up/Down buttons. 2. Press the Call/Set button and the blinking cursor will appear at the first digit of your already entered number under USER MMSI ID ENTRY. 3. Press and hold the WX/ESC button to return to the Settings menu. 40 English Operating Your Radio Digital Select Calling (DSC) Setup Group MMSI Number Nautical organizations such as yacht clubs and the organizers of events such as regattas can establish Group MMSIs. These allow a message to be sent automatically to all members of the group without having to call each one individually. Group MMSIs can be entered and changed any time without resetting the radio. Each member of a group must enter the group MMSI number in their radio to receive group messages. Group MMSI Group MMSI ID Entry To Enter A Group MMSI Number: 1. Enter the Settings menu and scroll to GROUP MMSI with the Up/Down buttons. 2. Press the Call/Set button and the blinking cursor will appear at the first digit under GROUP MMSI ID ENTRY. 3. Use the Up/Down buttons to scroll through the number list to that digit of your number. 4. Press the Call/Set button to select the digit and the blinking cursor will move to the next digit of the number. 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until all nine (9) digits of the group MMSI number are entered. NOTE Press the High/Low Power button to backspace and erase the last selected number. 6. Check that you have entered the number correctly. The unit will ask you to re-enter your number to confirm. 7. Press and hold the Call/Set button to return to the Settings menu. The group MMSI is established by modifying the MMSI assigned to one (1) of the group members. The last digit of that member's MMSI number is dropped and a zero (0) is inserted at the beginning. Example: Member MMSI number 366123456 becomes group MMSI number 036612345. Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra® 41