21
6
DSC OPERATION
6
r
After receiving the acknowledgment, reply using the
microphone.
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➥
A distress alert contains (default);
• Kind of distress : Undesignated distress
• Position data : The latest GPS or manual input position
data is held for 23.5 hours, or until the
transceiver is turned OFF.
➥
The Distress call is repeated every 3.5 to 4.5 minutes,
until receiving an ‘acknowledgement.’ (‘Call repeat’ mode)
➥
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 displays
when the GPS data is invalid, or has not been
manually updated for 4 hours.
D
Regular call
The nature of the Distress call should be included in the
Distress call.
q
Enter “
Distress Setting
” in the DSC menu.
DSC Menu
➪
Distress Setting
(Push
[MENU]
) (Rotate
[SELECTOR]
, then push
[ENT]
.)
w
Rotate
[SELECTOR]
to select the nature of the distress,
then push
[ENT]
.
• ‘Undesignated,’ ‘Explosion,’ ‘Flooding,’ ‘Collision,’ ‘Grounding,’
‘Capsizing,’ ‘Sinking,’ ‘Adrift (Disable adrift),’ ‘Abandoning
(Abandoning ship),’ ‘Piracy (Piracy attack)’ and ‘MOB (Man
overboard)’ are selectable.
• The nature of the distress is stored for 10 minutes after a
selection is made.
When a GPS receiver (NMEA0183 ver. 2.0 or 3.01) is
connected, steps
e
and
r
(Current position/time
programming) are not displayed. Go to step
t
.
