Sending the distress relay to a coast station

First confirm whether your vessel should send the distress relay signal, by following the flow chart on page 3-8. If your ship meets those requirements do the following:

1.The audio alarm sounds and the display shows the message "Distress call received." when your ship receives a distress call.

Distress

call received.

SHIP IN DIST:

123456789

NATURE: UNDESIGNATED

POS: 12˚34N 123˚45E at 12:34

TELEPHONE

2182.0 KHZ

 

 

STOP ALARM

2. Press the [CANCEL] key to silence the audio alarm, and the display changes as below.

* Received message *

JUL-23-1999-23:59

 

ECC: OK

DISTRESS CALL

 

 

 

SHIP IN DIST:

123456789

 

NATURE: UNDESIGNATED

POS: 12˚ 4N 123˚

5E AT 12:34

TELEPHONE348414.5 KHZ

 

 

 

 

ANSWER

 

 

 

 

ALL VIEW

3.Monitor the display for the distress acknowledge signal from the coast station. If you do not receive the distress acknowledge signal, and you have received the distress

alert more than twice, press to choose ANSWER and press the [ENT] key.

4. Press the [ENT] key to open the CALL TYPE menu.

*** Send message ***

CALL TYPE: INDIVIDUAL

RELAY ALL

COAS RELAY COAST

SHIP ACKNOWLEDGE

DSC FREQ :

2187.5 KHZ

GO TO ALL VIEW

5.Select RELAY COAST (or RELAY ALL if you don’t know the coast station where to send the distress relay) and press the [ENT] key. (For RELAY ALL go to step 7.) Press the [ENT] key to open the COAST ID entry window.

*** Send message ***

CALL TYPE : INDIVIDUAL

DISTRESS RELAY

COAST ID : 000000000

SHIP IN DIST

:

123456789

DSC FREQ : 2187.5 KHZ

GO TO ALL VIEW

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