PD IEC PAS 63343:2021

This standard PD IEC PAS 63343:2021 Maritime navigation and radiocommunication equipment and systems. VHF data exchange system. Requirements and methods of testing for stations including ASM functionality is classified in these ICS categories:

• 47.060 Inland navigation vessels
• 49.090 On-board equipment and instruments
• 47.020.70 Navigation and control equipment

This document specifies technical requirements, methods of test and required test results for equipment implementing ASM part of the VHF Data exchange system (VDES) as defined in ITU-R M.2092.

This document is intended to be the first step of development of standard(s) describing equipment that implement functions of VDES in any combination.

NOTE All text of this document whose wording is identical to applicable external references such as ITU Recommendations is printed in italics, and the reference and associated paragraph numbers are indicated in brackets.

NOTE The intention of text written in notation [Future: text] in this document is to include future placeholder for topics that are considered important even for the first implementations that may comply with this document.

Requirements set in this document provide means to mitigate adverse interference to Automatic Identification System (AIS).