Raymarine RAY91 - Manually Relaying a Distress Call; Distress Relays Sent by Other Stations; Urgency Calls; Making an Urgency Call

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
OVER
Distressrelayssentbyotherstations
WhenaCoastStationoranothervessel,hasreceived,
andacknowledgedaDSCdistressalertitmaytransmit
adistressalertrelaytoothervesselsintheimmediate
area.
Distressrelayssentfromotherstationscanbereceived
bytheradio.
Theradiocannotre-sendadistressrelayautomatically.
Ifrequiredyoucanrelayadistressrelaymessage
manually.
Ifadistressrelayissentspecificallytotheradiothen
itcanbeacknowledged,otherwiseacknowledgement
isnotrequired.
Acknowledgingadistressrelaysenttoyourvessel
Ifadistressrelayisspecificallysenttoyourvesselthis
willbebecausethesenderdeemsyoutobeinaposition
toassistintherescue.Thedistressrelayinformationis
displayedonscreen.
Whenadistressrelayisreceived:
1.Select
Showinfofromtheoptionstoreviewthe
relevantdetails.
2.Ifthedistressrelaywassentindividuallytoyou,select
Accepttosendadistressrelayacknowledgement.
3.Ensuretheradioistunedtochannel16.
Note:Distressrelaycallscanonlybeacknowledged
automaticallywhensentindividuallytoyou.
6.3Urgencycalls
Makinganurgencycall
Anurgencycallshouldbeusedwhenthereisdanger
toavehicleorpersonthatdoesnotrequireimmediate
assistance.Urgencycallsaretransmittedtoallstations.
Fromthe
Allshipscallmenu:Menu>DSCCalls>All
shipscall.
1.SelectUrgency.
2.Selectthechannelforsubsequentcommunication.
Thecallistransmitted.Oncethecallhasbeen
successfullytransmitted‘Sent’isdisplayedonscreen
andthechannelischangedtothespecifiedchannel.
3.Pressthe
OKbutton.
4.PressandholdthePTTbuttonandspeakthe
followingmessage:
PANPAN,PANPAN,PANPAN
ALLSTATIONS,ALLSTATIONS,ALLSTATIONS
Thisis<MMSIofyourvessel,nameofyourvessel
repeated3times,callsignofyourvessel>
Position<Y ourvessel’sposition>
Reasonforcall<Statethereasonforthecalland
includeallinformationwhichwillassistintherescue.
OVER
Receivinganurgencycall
Whenanurgencycallisreceived:
1.Select
Showinfofromtheoptionstoreviewrelevant
calldetails.
2.Select
Acceptatanytimetoacceptthecall.
If auto channel change is turned on then the channel
will automatically change after 10 seconds.
Theradioisre-tunedtothespecifiedchannel.
3.Listenfortheurgencycallmessage.
Digitalselectivecalling(DSC)
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