Raymarine RAY73 - Receiving a Distress Call; Ignoring a Distress Call; Acknowledging a Distress Call; Manually Relaying a Distress Call

2.Select Canceldistress.
3.SelectY
estoconfirmcancellation.
4.Select
OK.
5.Pressandholdthe PTTbuttonandmak
eabroadcast
toallstationsgivingyourvessel’sname,callsignand
MMSInumberandcancelthefalsedistressalert
Example:“ All,Stations,AllStations,AllStations.This
is<NAME>,<CALLSIGN>,<MMSIID>,<POSITION>.
Cancelmydistressalertof<DATE>,<TIME>,
<NAME>,<CALLSIGN>”
6.R epeatthebroadcastdescribedinstep5.
Receivingadistresscall
ItisexpectedthatonlyaCoastRadioStation(CRS)will
acknowledgeDSCdistresscallsandwillactasthe
coordinatorfortherescueoperation.
Whenadistresscallisreceivedanalarmissoundedat
fullvolumeandtheLCDdisplaysinformationrelating
tothedistress.
Ifthe A
utochannelchangefunctionisenabled;10
secondsafterreceiptofadistresscalltheradiowill
automaticallyre-tunetochannel16.Otherwisetheuser
ispromptedtochangechannelmanually.
Thedetailsofthedistresscallarerecordedinthe
distresslogandtheenvelopeiconwillflashtoletyou
knowamessagehasbeenreceived.Whenconnected
toaRaymarine
®
multifunctiondisplay(MFD)theposition
datafromthedistresscallcanalsobedisplayedinthe
Chartapplication.
Whenthereceiveddistresscallisacknowledgedbythe
CRSorbyanotherstationtheradiowillresumenormal
operation.
Ignoringadistresscall
Y oucanignoreadistresscallbymutingthealarmand
cancellingthedistresscallscreen.
Ifyourradioisalreadytunedtotheprioritychannelthen
the
Ignoreoptionwillnotbeavailable.
Withanincomingdistresscalldisplayed.
1.Select Ignorefromtheoptionsdisplayed.
Normaloperationisresumed.
Acknowledgingadistresscall
Distresscallsmustonlybeacknowledgedifthecall
continueswithoutacknowledgementfromaCRS,you
arecloseenoughtothedistressedvesseltobeof
assistanceandarepreparedtorelaythedistresstoa
CRSbyanymeanspossible.ClassDDSCradiosare
forbiddenfromautomaticallyacknowledgingdistress
calls.Acknowledgementmustonlybemadebyvoice
messageonchannel16.
Afterreceivingadistresscallthathasgoneunanswered:
1.Switchtochannel16tolistenforthedistressvoice
message.
2.WaitfortheCRStoacknowledgethecall.
3.Ifthedistresscallisnotacknowledgedbyanother
stationthenacknowledgethecallasfollows:
MAYDAY
(MMSIofthevesselindistress)
Nameofvesselindistress<repeated3times>
Callsignofthevesselindistress
Thisis<MMSIofyourvessel>,<nameofyourvessel
repeated3times><callsignofyourvessel>
RECEIVEDMAYDAY
4.Y ouMUSTthennotifytheshoreauthoritiesbyany
meanspossibletorelaythedistresscall.
Manuallyrelayingadistresscall
Adistressrelayshouldonlybesentif:thepersonor
vehicleindistressisunabletotransmitthedistresscall
itself,forexampleredflaressightedatnightorthe
personorvehicleindistressisoutofrangeofaCRSand
youhavealreadyacknowledgedthedistressbyvoice
message.Y oucanalsorelayareceiveddistressrelay
alertmanuallyifitgoesunanswered.
1.Switchtochannel16
2.Slowlyandclearlyspeakthedetailsofthedistress:
MAYDAYRELAY ,MAYDAYRELAY ,MAYDAY
RELAY
Thisis<MMSIofyourvessel,nameofyourvessel
repeated3timesandyourcallsign>
ReceivedthefollowingMAYDAYfrom<MMSIof
vesselindistress,nameofvesselindistress,callsign
ofvesselindistress>
Messagebegins
Messagereceivedfromvesselindistressordetails
ofthedistress
Messageends
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