Furuno FS-5070 manual Interpreting Call Displays, Receive calls, Distress receive call

3. DSC OVERVIEW

3.4Interpreting Call Displays

This paragraph provides the information necessary for interpreting receive and send call displays.

3.4.1Receive calls

Below are sample distress and individual receive calls. The content of other types of receive calls is similar to that of the individual call.

Distress receive call

	*	Received message				*	Date and time of message
MAR-11-2006-23:59							Call type
DISTRESS ALERT
SHIP ID IN DIST: 123456789							ID No. of ship in distress
NATURE: UNDESIGNATED							Nature of Distress (Undesignated, Fire, Flooding,
POS: 12°34.5678N DIST: 5546nm							Collision, Grounding, Listing, Sinking, Disabled,
		123°45.6789E AT 12:34
TELEPHONE				2182.0 kHz 10M10S			Abandoning, Piracy, Man Overboard)
							Position of ship in distress
ANSWER
					GO TO VIEW
			Push ENTER knob				Working frequency to use and communication type
			to switch.

View message

DISTRESS COORDINATES:

12°34.5678N
123°45.5678E	AT 12:34

COMMUNICATION MODE: TELEPHONE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT REQUIRED ERROR-CHECK: OK

DSC FREQ		: 2187.5KHZ
PREV
	BACK TO RECEIVED VIEW

Rotate ENTER knob to switch.

Distress coordinates (position of ship in distress)

Telecommand (class of emission)

Acknowledge type

Error check (OK or NG)

DSC frequency used to transmit distress call

*	View message		Format (distress)
DISTRESS ALERT
SENDER-ID		: 123456789	ID No. of ship in distress
NATURE OF DISTRESS:			Nature of distress
	UNDESIGNATED DISTRESS		(problem with ship in distress, see above)

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