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DSC OPERATION
➥
A distress alert contains (default);
• Nature of distress : Undesignated distress
• Position data
: GPS or manual input position data held
for 23.5 hrs or until the power is turned
OFF.
➥
The distress call is repeated every 3.5–4.5 min., until
receiving an ‘acknowledgement.’
➥
Push
[CLR]
to cancel the ‘Call repeat’ mode.
➥
“
??
” may blink instead of position and time indications
when the GPS data is invalid, or has not been manually
updated after 4 hours.
D
Regular call
The nature of the distress call should be included in the dis-
tress call.
q
Push
[MENU]
to enter the DSC menu.
w
Rotate
[DIAL]
to select “
Distress Setting
,” and
push
[DIAL•ENTER]
.
e
Rotate
[DIAL]
to select the nature of the distress, push
[DIAL•ENTER]
.
• ‘
Undesignated
,’ ‘
Explosion
,’ ‘
Flooding
,’ ‘
Colli-
sion
,’ ‘
Grounding
,’ ‘
Capsizing
,’ ‘
Sinking
,’ ‘
Adrift
(Disable adrift),’ ‘
Abandoning
(Abandoning ship),’ ‘
Piracy
(Piracy attack)’ and ‘
MOB
(Man overboard)’ are available.
• The selected nature of the distress is stored for 10 minutes.
--DSC Menu--
Select Nature
Undesignated
˘Explosion
Flooding
Collision
<CLR˘Exit / ENT
˘OK>
--DSC Menu--
Select Item
All Ships Call
Position Request
Position Report
Polling Request
Received Calls
˘Distress Setting