Incoming Distress Calls
If your compatible chartplotter and VHF radio are connected using NMEA 0183, your chartplotter alerts you
when your VHF radio receives a DSC distress call. If position information was sent with the distress call, that
information is also available and recorded with the call.
designates a distress call in the DSC list and marks the position of the vessel on the Navigation chart at the
time of the DSC distress call.
Navigating to a Vessel in Distress
designates a distress call in the DSC list and marks the position of a vessel on the Navigation chart at the
time of the DSC distress call.
1 Select Nav Info > Other Vessels > DSC List.
2 Select a position-report call.
3 Select Review > Navigate To.
4 Select Go To or Route To.
Position Tracking
You can connect a VHF radio to the same NMEA 2000 network as the chartplotter to send position reports and
track vessels that send position reports. The vessel must send the correct PGN data (PGN 129808; DSC Call
Information) to use this feature.
You can connect the chartplotter to a VHF radio using NMEA 0183, to send position reports and track vessels
that send position reports.
Every position report call received is logged in the DSC list (Viewing the DSC List, page81).
Viewing a Position Report
1 Select Nav Info > Other Vessels > DSC List.
2 Select a position-report call.
3 Select Review.
4 Select an option:
• To view the position report details, select .
• To view to a chart marking the location, select .
Navigating to a Tracked Vessel
1 Select Nav Info > Other Vessels > DSC List.
2 Select a position-report call.
3 Select Review > Navigate To.
4 Select Go To or Route To.
Creating a Waypoint at the Position of a Tracked Vessel
1 Select Nav Info > Other Vessels > DSC List.
2 Select a position-report call.
3 Select Review > Create Waypoint.
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