4. DISTRESS OPERATIONS

4.4Receiving Distress Relay from Coast Station

Your ship receives the distress relay when:

the coast station sends the distress relay to your ship. (DISTRESS RELAY COAST)

the coast station sends the distress relay to the area where you are navigating.

When you receive a distress relay message from a coast station, continue monitoring distress and safety frequencies. The audio alarm sounds and the display looks like the one in the left-hand figure below when a distress relay is received from a coast station.

1.Press the CANCEL key to silence the audio alarm, and the display changes as in the right-hand figure below.

Distress relay coast message received.

CANCEL: STOP ALARM

NATURE: UNDESIGNATED

POS: 12°34.000N

DIST: 14nm

123°45.0000E

AT 12:34

TELEPHONE

8291.5 kHz

Received message

Press the

 

MAY-23-2006-23:59

 

 

 

DISTRESS RELAY COAST

 

CANCEL key.

 

 

SENDER ID:

001234567

 

 

 

 

SHIP ID IN DIST:

123456789

 

 

 

NATURE: UNDESIGNATED

 

 

POS: 12°34.0000N

DIST: 14nm

 

 

123°45.0000E

AT 12:34

TELEPHONE 8291.5 kHz 10M10S

GO TO VIEW

2.Press the CANCEL key to go to the radiotelephone screen.

3.Watch distress/safety frequency.

4.5Cancelling Distress Call

You can cancel the distress call while it is being sent or while waiting for its acknowledgement as follows.

1.Press the CANCEL key to show the following display. The following message appears.

Distress Proc. is

Paused.

 

 

 

RESUME

 

RESEND

CANCEL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DSC FREQ

:

2187.5 kHz

 

 

 

 

TIME TO GO :

0S

 

 

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Furuno FS-5070 manual Receiving Distress Relay from Coast Station, Cancelling Distress Call