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ACKNOWLEDGING A DISTRESS ALERT,
INFO
Ships receiving a DSC distress alert from another ship should defer the acknowledgement of the
distress alert for a short interval, if the ship is within an area covered by one or more coast stations,
in order to give the coast station time to acknowledge the DSC distress alert first.
Start of transmission is automatically delayed until 1 minute has passed since receipt of the Distress
Alert. In this periode the displays shows ’ Call in progress ’.
END should be entered when communication is completed. The display returns to STATUS or to
RX-CALL if not all received calls have been read out and scanning is resumed on the transceiver if so
selected.
OPERATION ACKNOWLEDGING A DISTRESS ALERT, INFO
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