Raymarine Ray240, User Manual

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Chapter 2: Operations 39
Distress acknowledgement for another vessel?
If a distress acknowledgement is received for another vessel that is in distress, the
radio displays a suitable message and sounds an audible alarm. Your action
should be, either:
• Press MENU , and accept the call. The radio automatically re-tunes to
Channel 16 and monitors it.
or
• Press LAST/WX (LAST/PRIV) , and reject the call. The alarm is cancelled
and the call is logged.
Distress relay
When your radio receives a distress relay call, it displays a suitable message and
sounds an audible alarm. Your action should be, either:
• Press MENU , to accept the call. The alarm is cancelled and the radio auto-
matically re-tunes to Channel 16.
or
• Press LAST/WX (LAST/PRIV) , to reject the call. The alarm is cancelled
and the call is logged.
2.6 Receiving weather alerts
Whilst the radio is in Dual or Tri-Watch modes, and a National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Association (NOAA) weather channel has been selected, when a
weather alert is received the radio will sound an audible alarm and automatically
switch to the monitored weather channel so that the emergency broadcast can be
heard.
2.7 Additional functions
In addition to those already described in this chapter, the Ray240 has further
functions that can be accessed from the Main menus.
This section gives a brief description of these functions and what they do.