21
6
DSC OPERATION
6
r After receiving the acknowledgment, reply using the mi-
crophone.
25W INT
TAG
Received
DistressACK
<Osaka Bay
<CLR˘
Beep Off> CALLING
➥ A distress alert contains (default);
• Kind of distress : Undesignated distress
• Position data : GPS or manual input position data held for
23.5 hrs.
➥ The Distress call is repeated every 3.5–4.5 min., until
receiving an ‘acknowledgement.’
➥ Push [DISTRESS] to transmit a renewed Distress call,
if required.
➥ 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 manu
-
ally updated after 4 hours.
D Regular call
The nature of the Distress call should be included in the Dis-
tress call.
q Enter “Distress Setting” in DSC menu.
DSC Menu ➪ Distress Setting
(Push [MENU]) (Rotate [SELECTOR], then push [ENT].)
w Rotate [SELECTOR] to select the nature of the distress,
push [ENT].
• ‘Undesignated,’ ‘Explosion,’ ‘Flooding,’ ‘Collision,’ ‘Grounding,’
‘Capsizing,’ ‘Sinking,’ ‘Adrift (Disable adrift),’ ‘Abandoning (Aban-
doning ship),’ ‘Piracy (Piracy attack)’ and ‘MOB (Man overboard)’
are available.
• The selected nature of the distress is stored for 10 minutes
after selecting is finished.
--DSC Menu--
Select Nature
Undesignated
˘Explosion
Flooding
Collision
≥
<CLR
˘
Exit / ENT
˘
OK>
When a GPS receiver (NMEA0183 ver. 2.0 or 3.01) is
connected, steps e and r (Current position/time pro-
gramming) do not appear. Go to step
t.
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