Furuno FS-5070 manual Sending Distress Relay on Behalf of a Ship in Distress

4. DISTRESS OPERATIONS

4.3Sending Distress Relay on Behalf of a Ship in Distress

4.3.1Sending distress relay to coast station

You may send the distress relay to a coast station on behalf of a ship in distress in the following cases:

You are near the ship in distress and the ship in distress cannot transmit the distress alert.

When the master or person responsible for your ship considers that further assistance is necessary.

Note: In the above cases, never use the DISTRESS button.

1. Press the DSC key.

Select Message

GENERAL	DISTRESS
INDIVIDUAL	RELAY AREA
PSTN MESSAGE	RELAY COAST
TEST MESSAGE	DISTRESS
GROUP MESSAGE
AREA MESSAGE	SPECIAL
POSITION
MMSI 123456789	UTC 01:53
POS 12 34.5678N
123 45.6789E	EPFS 01:54

2.Rotate the ENTER knob to choose RELAY COAST and then push the ENTER knob.

3.Push the ENTER knob to open the COAST ID window.

MANUAL

SELECT

4.Rotate the ENTER knob to choose MANUAL or SELECT.

When you choose SELECT, a list of file names and ID numbers stored at MESSAGE menu appears (For details, see Chapter 6.) In this case you can choose a file name with ID number desired, and then push the ENTER knob and then go to step 6. When choosing MANUAL, go to step 5.

Compose msg.

MSG TYPE: RELAY COAST

COAST ID
SHIP ID IN D		00*******
NATURE:
POS: NO	INFORMATION
COMM MODE		:	TELEPHONE
DSC FREQ.		:	8414.5 kHz
			GO TO VIEW

5. Key in COAST ID with the numeric keys and then push the ENTER knob.

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