Calling all stations (All-Ships Call)
All ships calling contacts all DSC radios within range of your boat. You should only use
all ships calling in the event of a Safety warning (such as debris in the water) or to
request assistance in an Urgency (any situation where your vessel has a serious problem
but is not yet in distress).
1. Open the call menu.
2. Select
All Ships,
and then choose whether this is an
Urgency
call or a
Safety
call.
3. The radio asks you to confirm the call. Select
Send
to continue with the call or select
Cancel
to cancel the call.
4. The radio automatically switches to channel 70 to transmit the call request then
automatically switches to channel 16, the designated response channel for all-ships
calling.
Making an automatic distress call
If you have programmed your MMSI number, your radio can transmit an automated
distress call with your current location and nature of the distress. The radio then monitors
the channel 16 for a response and repeats the distress call every few minutes until it
receives an acknowledgement.
NOTE:
To send an automatic distress call, press and hold DISTRESS for three
seconds. If no MMSI number has been programmed, the radio prompts you to
enter your MMSI number.
If you want to include the nature of your distress in the distress call, use the following
distress procedure:
1. Press
DISTRESS
.
2. The radio displays the list of distress conditions; use
CHANNEL UP
and
CHANNEL DOWN
to choose the nature of your distress, then press and hold
DISTRESS
for three seconds.
Undesignated
Sinking
Fire
Adrift
Flooding
Abandoning
Collision
Piracy. Armed
Grounding
Overboard
Capsizing
VHF585 RADIO
1-800-BOATING
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