Document No.

: HMT/QW-824-69
Version No.: B Edit State: 0
Date: May 10, 2009

OPERATION MANUAL

Simplified Voyage Data Recorder (SVDR)

Qingdao Headway Marine Technology Co., Ltd.

Tel: (+86)-532-88702807/88702808 Fax: (+86)-532-83107816
24 Hours Service Phone: (+86)13954217693 E-mail: tech@headwaytech.com
Add: F4, 5#Building Area A Huite Industrial City, 177#, Zhuzhou Road, Qingdao, China
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Content
1 Introduction of Playback Software ...................................................................................................................- 2 -
1.1 Required hardware & Software environment ....................................................................................................- 2 -
1.2 Installation of software ......................................................................................................................................- 2 -
1.3 Introduction of playback software.....................................................................................................................- 5 -
1.3.1 The head page.................................................................................................................................................- 5 -
1.3.2 Sub menu ........................................................................................................................................................- 6 -
1.3.3 Menu shipInfo ................................................................................................................................................- 7 -
1.3.4 Help menu ......................................................................................................................................................- 7 -
1.4 Tools introduction..............................................................................................................................................- 7 -
1.5 Instruction for playback content ........................................................................................................................- 7 -
1.5.1 Conning instruction ........................................................................................................................................- 7 -
1.5.2 AIS instruction................................................................................................................................................- 9 -
1.5.3 Alarm/Status .................................................................................................................................................- 12 -
1.5.4 Play Audio ....................................................................................................................................................- 13 -
1.5. 5 Radar ...........................................................................................................................................................- 14 -
1.5.6 System Event ................................................................................................................................................- 14 -
1.5.7 Ship Info .......................................................................................................................................................- 15 -
1.5.8 NMEA Source ..............................................................................................................................................- 15 -
2 Operation of the Software................................................................................................................................- 16 -
2.1 Download data from the PDC .........................................................................................................................- 16 -
2.2 Download data from Backup Disk ..................................................................................................................- 18 -
2.3 Replay the data ................................................................................................................................................- 19 -
2.3.1 RealTime player ...........................................................................................................................................- 19 -
2.3.2 Replay the data after downloading ...............................................................................................................- 20 -
3 Equipment Maintenance and Failure Removal .............................................................................................- 22 -
3.1 “SHIPDC”&”SVDRDC” ................................................................................................................................- 22 -
3.2 CH1 AIS ERROR ............................................................................................................................................- 22 -
3.3 “CH3 GPS ERROR”&“ZDA SENTENCE LOSE”.........................................................................................- 22 -
3.4 CH5 GYRO COMPASS ERROR....................................................................................................................- 26 -
3.5 CH6 SPEED LOG ERROR.............................................................................................................................- 26 -
3.6 “MAIN RADAR ERROR”&“AIDED RADAR ERROR” .............................................................................- 26 -
3.7 PDC CONNECT ERROR ...............................................................................................................................- 26 -
3.8 NOT RECEIVED INF.....................................................................................................................................- 26 -
3.9 Backup Disk Full.............................................................................................................................................- 27 -

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1 Introduction of Playback Software

1.1 Required hardware & Software environment
⑴ 600MHz or above CPU.
⑵ 128MB or above memory.
⑶ 20GB or above Hard Disk.
⑷ Operating system: Win 9X/Win NT/2000/XP/Vista.
⑸ Browser: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or above.
⑹ 100Mb Network card.
⑺ 1024*768 Resolution Rate or above.

1.2 Installation of software

Please put the installation disk in the drive and click to open it, find “playback software” and double click it to
install, and you’ll find three different shortcuts of SVDR software on the desktop of your computer.
As following:

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Please input username and company name, and the S/N is 053283107818.

Continue to click “next” till the installation is finished. Finally close the installation page.

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And you’ll find three different shortcuts of SVDR software on the desktop of your computer

1.3 Introduction of playback software

There’re four menu items in the main menu, they’re Play, Screen, ShipInfo, Help.
1.3.1 The head page
Double click the “VDRPlayer”, you will see the following:

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There’re “Replay from file …”, “Download From PDC”, “Extract Audio”, “Exit”, four functions in the “Play”
menu.
1. “Playback from file”, is to select the file for playback. After the selection a dialogue box appears. Select the
program path of playback and open “config.dat”.
2. “Download From PDC” is to download the data directly from PDC.
3. Function “Extract Audio” is to save the “.wav” file of audio and “.bmp” file of image gained from playback
process in order to check the middle data. If “Extract Audio” is selected, save “.wav” file and “.bmp” file,
otherwise not. There’re two methods.
I: A recommended easy method. After you have selected “ Extract Audio”, the system will save the decoding of the
data playbacked from the file next to the one under play to the one till you cancel” Extract Audio”. That is, “.wav”
file of audio and “.bmp” file of image will be saved to file “C:\HeadWay” that automatically established. User
needn’t to have any other operation.
II: After you have selected “Extract Audio”, a dialogue box appears. This way is used only when putting the data
under “C:\data” in advance, meanwhile establishing a file “tempdata”, which consists of three empty files “other”,
“audio”, “picture”. Then the “.wav” file of audio and “.bmp” file of image that decoded in playback process are
separately put in these files.
Usually we don’t use this function.
4. “Exit” is exit the playback system.
1.3.2 Sub menu
Submenu can be directly selected and be put on the current page.
For example, “sound” is selected, then put “sound” on current page. If you want to put other page on current page

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to show the content, the same method will be selected.

1.3.3 Menu shipInfo
Function of Reload, Upload, Save.
Function of Reload is to reload the content of ShipInfo，
Function of Upload is to upload ShipInfo，
Function of Save is to save content of ShipInfo.
This part will be detailed when adding shipinfo.
1.3.4 Help menu
The menu contains help content of the playback software.

1.4 Tools introduction

The toolbar mainly has “play”, “stop”, “pause”, “open file” and “slide bar” five tools as follows:

“Open file” is to open one file, will appear a dialogue box as follows, open “config.dat” under “data” folder which
are downloaded from PDC.

“Stop” is to stop the file under play. “Pause” is to pause the file under play. If continue to play, click “play” to play
the file from the break point.
After the file to open selected, “play” becomes operable, “stop” and “pause” turn gray, which indicates
dis-operable.
“Play” turns gray when playing, “stop” and “pause” are both operable.
Slip rail can be dragged to change the content under play.
When the system is busy, that’s to pre-deal with the file to play, the tool bar is gray.

1.5 Instruction for playback content

1.5.1 Conning instruction
This page is mainly the basic information of ship shipping and navigation. The data mainly comes from GPS，
Speed Log, Gyro compass, When put Mouse cursor on displayed data, it will appear SVDR Channel, Equipment,
NMEA info consistent with displayed data. Pls refer to the following Channel, Equipment, NMEA info.

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Ⅰ Time & Position(GPS)

It mainly shows UTC, Local time and Longitude, Latitude, Satellites and Quality. The default data is N/A.

Ⅱ Speed(KN)
When speed data collected is consisted by landscape orientation and portrait speed corresponding to water and to
earth separately, it shows the format as 3-2. If only a relatively speed is gained, turn “Transverse” to “Relative”，
and show the value of relatively speed measured under “ Water” on third line.

Ⅲ Heading
It shows the heading of ship navigation in 2 different ways. Way I: Heading is always right above the figure(black
dot). Display way I: according to acquired heading angle, turn Gyro Pointer to enable it to point to vessel’s
headway. Display way II: always enable the direction “N” to point to the right above, according to acquired
vessel’s heading data, the pointer’s direction indicates the vessel’s heading. Through “Gyro” & “North Up”, change
display ways is possible. Way I and Way II is as following:

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Ⅸ Heading value display

It displays the value of True Heading and Magnetic Heading. Blank is N/A.

Ⅳ Power Supply
This to display the Power-Supply working status. When a certain power supply indicator color is red, means
that this power is supplying for SVDR. (when AC Power is working, it will be green color, otherwise, it is
grey color)
If DC indicator color is red, shows that DC power from the vessel is working;
If BT indicator color is red, shows that SVDR spare Power Supply is working.

1.5.2 AIS instruction

The whole interface is as follows:

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Ⅰ Show Info & Hide Info

“Show Info” & “Hide Info” are 2 groups of tools, they respectively show the info & hide the info,
They respectively have 2 tools “Guard Zone” & “Selected All” with the function of controlling operative
scope. “Guard Zone” means the operation towards the vessels within the selected scope (within the circle),
mainly indicates Shows AIS Info & Hide AIS Info. “Selected All” means show & hide all vessel’s info
recorded in AIS. Operation towards “Show Info & Hide Info” can be through clicking the mouse.

Ⅱ Zoom & Guard Zone

The first slip rail means changing the value of Zoom, the second slip rail is changing the size of Guard Zone(circle).
Value of Zoom is from 01NM to 99NM, means that it can display the vessel at 99NM distance from this current
vessel. Guard Zone means the selected scope, change scope is also from 01NM to 99NM. Through these 2 buttons’
operation, may select the vessels in different scope.

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Ⅲ Back Color
The “Backlight” slip rail is for changing the brightness & darkness of background color. You’re free to adjust the
color of blue background according to your own comfortable degree.

Ⅳ Position Move
The four removable buttons including “Up”, “Down”, “Left” & “Right” enable displayed “Guard Zone” center to
move in parallel towards above four directions. Default status is that make this current vessel be the center of
“Guard Zone”, i.e. position of middle little circle. After moving, all the displayed vessels moved to the same
distance in parallel, by this way, we could check vessel’s info in bigger scope. If click “center”, all the vessels will
move to original position in parallel, and enable this current vessel to be the center of “Guard Zone”. All the vessels
move in parallel to the position where center is of this current vessel.

Ⅴ AIS Information Display

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① Inside “Display Information”.

Select some vessels then right-click the mouse, it will show the AIS info as the following figure. These info include
MMSI No., Position, Navigational Status, Heading, Speed, Course over ground, Rate of turn, Distance. Distance
means space between selected vessel and this current vessel. As follwing:

② Refer to “Info” tools in 1.4.2. I, for example, in case:

Show the vessel info of “Guard Zone”, just select “Guard Zone” of “Show Info”;
Show all the vessel’s info, just select “Selected All” of “Show Info”;
Select “Guard Zone” of “Hide Info”, hide the vessel info of “Guard Zone”;
Select “Selected All” of “Hide Info”, hide all the vessel’s info.
③ At the bottom of this page there is one line characters “AIS Pointing At :”. This is the geographic position of
mark’s location. Distance is the space from this current vessel.

④In all displayed vessels, sign means this vessel has Heading value, sign means this vessel has not
Heading value.
1.5.3 Alarm/Status
This page mainly is playback of various alarm info, including Acknowledged, Time, Source, Description,
Condition. If alarm info is confirmed, “Acknowledged” will show “ACK”; if not, will only show “-”.
Alarm info will be in turn shown in below form, if alarm info does not send out alarm signals, it will show black
words; if “Condition” shows “alarm” red words, it has sent out alarm.

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1.5.4 Play Audio

In one set of SVDR system, four microphone channels & two VHF are installed, they are respectively Bridge
Microphone channel 1, Bridge Microphone channel 2, Bridge Microphone channel 3,Outdoor Microphone channel,
& VHF1, VHF2.
1. Equalizer is used to adjust audio effect, may move the slip rail to change.
2. The slip rail of each audio track is used to adjust audio volume, when the slip rails moves to furthest left,
means close this audio track.
3. When audio track has not sound or close, screen will show “SVDR Sound Meter”.

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1.5. 5 Radar
This is to gather the radar data and it will show the Radar image when replaying.

1.5.6 System Event

This is to record all the working circumstances of system and all connected equipments. When carry out
playback, we can observe the equipment ID, status, date, time. Through reply, the running status of each equipment
before accidents can be understood. It will show the system log information during the current time period.
Attn：refer to Appendix for explanations of equipment ID.

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1.5.7 Ship Info

In “Ship Info” page, we may check vessel’s basic info, as well as add and change vessel’s info. When install system,
may use this function to record vessel’s info into SVDR, when carry on playback, it cannot randomly change
vessel’s info.
Ⅰ Positioning vessel info method:
① Select “Play”---“Play from file ”---“open”, select the file “config.dat” under “data” folder, at this
time, positioning is ok.
② Directly select “open file”---“open”, position file “config.dat”.
③ If you could not find the Ship Info when the VDRRealTimePlayer is running, please click
Ⅱ When playback data, ship info will be shown in following page:

1.5.8 NMEA Source

The following page mainly shows the received NMEA sentences which are for user’s reference and comparison.
“NMEA” shows for NMEA sentence, “Source” shows sourcing equipment, “Channel” shows sourcing channel.

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2 Operation of the Software

Please set the computer IP address as 192.168.0.32 firstly. And then connect the MCU and the computer with
Ethernet Cable. Please refer to the installation manual to finish it.

2.1 Download data from the PDC

The content of the “data” folder is the same as the content of the PDC. You could copy it from
the “Backup Disk”
Please switch off the firewall and the power in the Main Cabinet Unit before downloading. Please double click the
VDRPlayer shortcut, choose “Play→Download From PDC”

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Please input:
Add: 192.168.0.33
User: HMT
Password: HMTPDC
Port: 21
Then click “Connect”

The left window is the local disk, and we can set the address to save the data in it. Find data in the “Server” and
right click on the key to select “Download”. And the data will be saved in the computer.

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2.2 Download data from Backup Disk

Please switch off the power and take out the “Backup Disk”.

Then connect the “Backup Disk” to the computer with the CF card reader.
Please switch off the power, take out the CF card and insert into the CF card reader. As following:

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Connect it to the computer and open the CF card.

You could find the “data” folder and “Program Backup” folder. And the content of the “data” folder is the same as
the content of the PDC. The other folders are the backups, which folder name is consist of figures.

2.3 Replay the data

There are two methods to replay the data. One is Realtime player, the other is replay the data after downloading.
2.3.1 RealTime player
Please double click the shortcut “VDRRealTimePlayer” on the desktop. Please note the firewall is switched off
before operation. And the replaying will be started automatically after 20 seconds. If it is not start automatically,
please click “start”.

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2.3.2 Replay the data after downloading

Please double click the shortcut “VDRPlayer”, then click “open file” or “Play→Replay from file”

Please choose the “Config.dat” and open it. The “play” is changed from disable to enable.

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Click it and the replaying starts.

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3 Equipment Maintenance and Failure Removal

We shall detect the cause of the equipment failure through observing the message show on the screen of Remote
Alarm Panel. Now let me introduce how to check failures when the Remote Alarm Unit indicates relevant alarm
information. First is to check the probable cause of the failure through the Remote Alarm Panel. When the system
works normally, “system ok” appears on the screen. If it is necessary we can build backups by pressing both “ACK
Flash” and “Test” for emergency save.

3.1 “SHIPDC”&”SVDRDC”
When “SHIPDC” appears here, it indicates that the 110/220V power has been cut off, and the SVDR system is
powered by the emergency power of the vessel. We can press “ACK FLASH” to stop flashing, press “Mute” to stop
buzzing and search for the causes. First, check if the power supply is still charged with electricity, and the
connection is good or not. If the connection is good, after plugging in the main power supply, the Remote Alarm
Panel will indicate AC power supply. In case of emergency, in order to save PDC data, it is necessary to press both
“ACK FLASH and TEST buttons at the same time until “backup 01” appears on the screen, and the data of latest
12 hours will be saved in the big Backup Disk forever. After successful backup, “BACKUP 01” will appear on the
screen. “SYSTEM OK” indicates that the system is working normally.

3.2 CH1 AIS ERROR

When “CH1 AIS ERROR” appears, the first step is to press the “Mute” & “ACK FLASH” to confirm alarm
message. Then check whether AIS equipment is on, whether the plug of AIS input is loose and whether the
connection is good. If the connection is good, we should check whether the AIS equipment can send signals to
SVDR. After the failure is eliminated, the displayed information of Remote Alarm Panel screen will disappear
automatically.

3.3 “CH3 GPS ERROR”&“ZDA SENTENCE LOSE”

When “CH3 GPS ERROR” appears, as there is no GPS input, ZDA sentence alarm also appears at the same time.
The first step is to press “Mute” & “ACK FLASH” to stop alarm sound, then check whether GPS equipment is on,
whether the plug of GPS input is loose and whether the connection is good. If the connection is good, we should
check whether GPS equipment can send signals to SVDR. If only ZDA sentence alarm appears, please check
whether GPS has sent out ZDA sentence. After the failure is eliminated, the displayed information from Remote
Alarm Panel screen will disappear automatically.

Sometimes there is no “ZDA sentence” for some old style GPS. Please cancel this failure according to the
following instruction.
Please switch off the power and take out the CF card in the Main Cabinet Unit. I mean the PROGRAM DISK.
Insert the CF card in to the CF card reader. As following:

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Open “My Computer” and find the CF card. Double click it and you will find the “data” folder, Open the “data”
folder and you will see the following page. Please double click the icon.

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You will see the following page

Please choose “Uart Configuration”

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Please press “Alt +U”, the page will be changed:

Please cancel the choice. I mean to make to disappeared. As following:

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And then please click the . The “Save OK” will be shown on the left of it. Like this

Then please insert the CF card into the Main Cabinet Unit and switch on it.

3.4 CH5 GYRO COMPASS ERROR

When “CH5 GYRO COMPASS ERROR” appears, the first step is to press the “Mute” & “ACK FLASH” to
confirm alarm message. Then check whether GYPO equipment and GYRO interface are on, whether the plug of
GYPO is loose and whether the connection is good. If the connection is good, we should check whether GYPO can
send signals to SVDR. If there is an interface converter, please check whether the converter works well. After the
failure is eliminated, the displayed information of Remote Alarm Panel screen will disappear automatically.

3.5 CH6 SPEED LOG ERROR

When “CH6 SPEED LOG ERROR” appears. The first step is to press the “Mute” & “ACK FLASH” to confirm
alarm message. Then check whether LOG equipment is on, whether the plug of the LOG input is loose and whether
the connection is good. If the connection is good, we should check whether LOG equipment can send signals to
SVDR. If there is an interface converter, please check whether the converter works well. After the failure is
eliminated, the displayed information of Remote Alarm Panel screen will disappear automatically.

3.6 “MAIN RADAR ERROR”&“AIDED RADAR ERROR”

When the main radar alarm appears, please press the “Mute” & “ACK Flash” to confirm the alarm message. Then
please check whether the main radar is on and whether the connection line is loose. When the aided radar alarm
appears, please check whether it is on and whether the connection line is loose. It is beneath the main radar
connection line.

3.7 PDC CONNECT ERROR

When “PDC CONNECT ERROR” appears, the first step is to press the “Mute” & “ACK FLASH” to stop alarm
sound, then please check whether the plug of PDC connection is loose and here I mean 8 core plug. If the
connection is loose, please fasten it. Check whether the plug of the PDC terminal is loose. PDC is on the roof of the
bridge. If the connection cable is not loose, please connect the cable to the computer and check whether the PDC
can get connected. Both of the cable interface are RJ45. Start the computer, click “start ”, and then click “run”,
enter “ping 192.168.0.33 –t” and see whether can get connected. If not, please check whether there is any voltage
between the foot 6 and foot 7 of the plug in the PDC terminal. (Note: If the PDC plug is 6 core, please check the
foot 5 and foot 6) If there is, please check whether the voltage is 24V. If there is no voltage, please whether there is
any voltage between the foot 11 and foot 12 of A9 terminal in Main Cabinet Unit. If there is, please check whether
the voltage is 24v. If there is no voltage, please confirm whether the Power Supply Unit works normally. If the
terminal of this side has electricity, please check the PDC connection line. If you can’t remove the failure, please
switch off the power and check the state of the N1, N2, N3, N4, N5 lamp in the Main Cabinet Unit, then please
contact us. You could find the “N1-N5” lamps position by Chapter 7 from the installation Manual.

3.8 NOT RECEIVED INF

When “NOT RECEIVED INF” appears. The first step is to press the “Mute” & “ACK FLASH” to stop alarm
sound, then it is to check whether the connection line of Remote Alarm Panel is loose. Check whether the

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connection lines within Main Cabinet Unit are loose, such as the Backup Disk connection & CF card connection
lines. Check whether the CF card is tightly inserted.

If all these connections are good, the system can’t work properly, please take out the Program Disk from Main
Cabinet Unit, through the card reader, insert it into the laptop, and check whether the system files are correct in the
laptop.Please check whether the filename “VXWORKS” is correct? Then check whether “BOOTROM.SYS”
filename is correct. Is there a “data” folder? Under “data” folder, are there “audio”, “other”, “picture” folders and
“radar.cfg”, “uart.cfg”, “audio.cfg” and “VDRConfig.exe”. Check the state of the running lamp in the Main
Cabinet Unit and contact us. The lamp should flash once every 15 seconds. You can find it by referring the
Installation Manual.
Note: “SYS”, “cfg”, “exe” are the extended filename.

3.9 Backup Disk Full

Please note that it could store 3 backups in the Backup Disk. When you press the fourth backup, the “BACKUP
DISK FULL” will be shown. The system could delete the first backup automatically after five hours.

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