3.3Sending Distress Relay on Behalf of a Ship in Distress

3.3.1Sending 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.

•Another vessel requests you to transmit the distress relay.

In these cases never use the [DISTRESS] button to transmit the distress relay.

1. Press the [CALL] key and press the [ENT] key.

***Send

CALL TYPE

STATION ID PRIORITY COM. TYPE COM. FREQ

DSC FREQ

INDIVIDUAL ***

PSTN CALL

TEST CALL

ALL SHIPS

GROUP CALL

AREA CALL

POSITION6

If this part of the menu appears, use 5to scroll the5menu.

POLLING

NEUTRAL

MEDICAL

RELAY ALL

RELAY SEL

DISTRESS

2.Select RELAY SEL and press the [ENT] key. Press the [ENT] key to open the COAST ID entry window.

*** Send message ***

CALL TYPE: RELAY SEL

 

COAST ID

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ID IN DIST

 

00-------

 

 

 

NATURE:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POS: 34˚45N

 

13

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COM. TYPE

:

TELEPHONE

 

DSC FREQ.

:

2187.5 KHZ

 

 

 

 

GO TO ALL VIEW

3.Key in COAST ID and ID and press the [ENT] key.

4.Press the [ENT] key to open the ID IN DIST window.

 

***Send message ***

 

CALL TYPE

 

 

 

: RELAY ALL

 

COAST ID:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

---------

 

 

 

ID IN DIST

 

 

 

 

 

 

NATURE :

 

UNDESIGNATED

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POS.:

 

 

 

: --˚--N ---˚--E

 

COM.TYPE

:

 

 

TELEPHONE

 

DSC FREQ

:

 

 

2187.5 KHZ

GO TO ALL VIEW

5.Key in ID of ship in distress and press the [ENT] key. If you do not know the ID leave the window blank.

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