Furuno FS-5070 manual Distress alert message received

4. DISTRESS OPERATIONS

Sending the distress acknowledge call to ship in distress (on MF band)

Note: You cannot send the distress acknowledge call for five minutes because of receiving the distress acknowledgement from the coast station.

Transmit the distress acknowledge call to the ship in distress only when you do not receive it from a coast station and you are able to aid the ship in distress. First, transmit the distress acknowledge to the ship in distress by telephone. To terminate transmission of the distress alert, send acknowledge call as follows.

The audio alarm sounds and the display shows the message “Distress alert message received.” When your ship receives a distress alert.

Distress alert message received.

CANCEL: STOP ALARM

123°4500E	AT 12:34
TELEPHONE	2182.0 kHz

10 seconds

Distress alert message received.

PLEASE PUSH CANCEL KEY.

1. Press the CANCEL key to silence the audio alarm and the display changes as below.

* Received message *

JAN-23-2006-23:59

State of Waiting For Acknowledge.

PUSH ANY KEY.

DISTRESS ALERT

Press any key. SHIP ID IN DIST: 123456789

NATURE: UNDESIGNATED
POS:	12 34.000N		DIST: 43nm
	123 45.000E		AT 12:34
TELEPHONE		2182.0 kHz 10M10S
ANSWER
				GO TO VIEW

2.If you do not receive the distress acknowledge call from a coast station and you have received the distress alert more than twice, contact the ship in distress over radiotelephone.

3.If the distress alert continues, terminate the alert by rotating the ENTER knob to choose ANSWER, push the ENTER knob and then go to step 4 to send the distress acknowledge call to the ship in distress.

4.Push the ENTER knob to open the MSG TYPE menu.

Compose msg.

MSG

RELAY COAST

COAST RELAY AREA

SHIP ACKNOWLEDGE

DSC FREQ :	2187.5 kHz
	GO TO VIEW

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