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6
DSC OPERATION
New2001
6
➥
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.
D
D
Normal call
The nature of the distress call should be included in the dis-
tress call.
q
Push
[MENU]
to enter the DSC menu.
w
Push
[
▲
]
or
[
▼
]
to select “
Distress Setting
,” and
push
[ENT]
.
e
Push
[
▲
]
or
[
▼
]
to select the nature of the distress, push
[ENT]
.
• ‘Undesignated,’ ‘Explosion,’ ‘Flooding,’ ‘Collision,’ ‘Grounding,’
‘Capsizing,’ ‘Sinking,’ ‘Adrift (Disable adrift),’ ‘Abandoning (Aban-
doning ship),’ ‘Piracy (Piracy attack),’ and ‘MOB (Man over-
board)’ are available.
• The selected nature of the distress is stored for 10 minutes.
--DSC Menu--
Select Nature
Undesignated
˘Explosion
Flooding
≥
<CLR˘Exit / ENT˘OK>
--DSC Menu--
Select Item
˘Position Report
≤
Polling Request
Received Calls
˘Distress Setting
≥
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