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GX2200
4. When a DSC distress acknowledgment is
received, a distress alarm sounds and Channel
16 is automatically selected. The display shows
the MMSI of the ship responding to your distress.
RECEIVED ACK: acknowledgment signal is
received.
RECEIVED RLY: relay signal is received from
a n o t h e r v e s s e l o r c o a s t
station.
!DISTRESS ALERT!
Nature of:Undesignated
Position:
POS Time: 10:00
Wait for ACK
TX in: 02:25
N
W
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118 09.580
PAUSE
CANCEL
!DISTRESS ALERT!
Received Acknowledged
Name:USCG
Since: 00:15
ID:101234
567
OK
5. Press the
PTT
switch and state your name, vessel name, number of
persons on board and the distress situation, then say “over” and wait for
a reply from the acknowledging ship.
6. To turn off the distress alarm before the radio retransmits the distress
call, press the
9
16
key.
Transmitting a DSC Distress Alert with Nature of Distress
The
GX2200
is capable of transmitting a DSC distress alert with the following
“Nature of Distress” categories:
Undesignated, Fire, Flooding, Collision, Grounding, Capsizing, Sinking,
Adrift, Abandoning, Piracy, MOB
1. Press the
CALL
MENU
key. The “
D S C M e n u
” will
appear.
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Flooding
Grounding
Capsizing
Collision
UNDESIGNATED
QUIT
SELECT
!NATURE OF!
Undesignated
Flooding
Grounding
Capsizing
Collision
FIRE
QUIT
SELECT
2.
Rotate the
CH
knob to select “
DISTRESS ALERT
MSG
”.
3. Press the
soft key. (To cancel, press the
soft key.) The “
DISTRESS ALERT MSG
”
menu will appear on the display.
4. Press the
soft key, then
rotate the
CH
knob to select the desired nature of distress cate-
gory.
Nature of distress categories: Fire, Flood, Colli-
sion, Grounding, Capsizing, Sinking, Adrift, Aban-
doning, Piracy, and MOB.
5. Press the
soft key.
6. Press and hold the
DISTRESS
key until a distress
alert is transmitted.
7. Perform the steps 1 through 6 of the basic opera-
tion described in the previous section.