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DSC OPERATION
New2001
6
r
After receiving the acknowledgment, reply using the mi-
crophone.
➥
A distress alert contains (default);
• Kind of distress : Undesignated distress
• Position data
: GPS or manual input position data held for
23.5 hrs.
➥
The Distress call is repeated every 3.5–4.5 min., until
receiving an ‘acknowledgement.’
➥
Push
[DISTRESS]
to transmit a renewed Distress call, if
required.
➥
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
Regular call
The nature of the Distress call should be included in the Dis-
tress call.
q
Enter “
D
Di
is
st
tr
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es
ss
s S
Se
et
tt
ti
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ng
g
” in DSC menu.
w
Rotate
[SELECTOR]
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 overboard)’
are available.
• The selected nature of the distress is stored for 10 minutes after
selecting is finished.
When a GPS receiver (NMEA0183 ver. 2.0 or 3.01) is con-
nected, steps
e
and
r
(Current position/time program-
ming) do not appear. Go to step
t
.
--DSC Menu--
Select Nature
Undesignated
˘
Explosion
Flooding
Collision
≥
<CLR
<CLR˘Exit
Exit / ENT
ENT˘OK>
OK>
D
DS
SC
C M
Me
en
nu
u
➪
D
Di
is
st
tr
re
es
ss
s S
Se
et
tt
ti
in
ng
g
(Push
[MENU]
) (Rotate
[SELECTOR]
, then push
[ENT]
.)
25W
INT
TAG
Received
DistressACK
<Osaka Bay
<CLR˘
Beep Off>
CALLING
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