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6 DSC OPERATION
➥ A distress alert contains (default);
• Nature of distress : Undesignated distress
• Position data : GPS or manual input position data held
for 23.5 hrs or until the power is turned
OFF.
➥ The distress call is repeated every 3.5–4.5 min., until re-
ceiving an ‘acknowledgement.’
➥ Push [CLR] to cancel the ‘Call repeat’ mode.
➥ “
????
” may blink instead of position and time indications
when the GPS data is invalid, or has not been manually
updated after 4 hours.
DD
Regular call
The nature of the distress call should be included in the dis-
tress call.
q Push [MENU] to enter the DSC menu.
w Rotate [CHANNEL] to select “
DDiissttrreessss SSeettttiinngg
,”
and push [CHANNEL•ENTER].
e Rotate [CHANNEL] to select the nature of the distress,
push [CHANNEL•ENTER].
•‘
UUnnddeessiiggnnaatteedd
,’ ‘
EExxpplloossiioonn
,’ ‘
FFllooooddiinngg
,’ ‘
CCoollllii--
ssiioonn
,’ ‘
GGrroouunnddiinngg
,’ ‘
CCaappssiizziinngg
,’ ‘
SSiinnkkiinngg
,’
‘
AAddrriifftt
(Disable adrift),’ ‘
AAbbaannddoonniinngg
(Abandoning ship),’
‘
PPiirraaccyy
(Piracy attack)’ and ‘
MMOOBB
(Man overboard)’ are avail-
able.
• The selected nature of the distress is stored for 10 minutes.
--DSC Menu--
Select Nature
Undesignated
˘Explosion
Flooding
Collision
<CLR<CLR˘ExitExit / ENTENT˘OK>OK>
--DSC Menu--
Select Item
All Ships Call
Position Request
Position Report
Polling Request
Received Calls
˘Distress Setting