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6
DSC OPERATION
New2001
6
r After receiving the acknowledgment, reply using the mi-
crophone.
➥ 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 manually
updated after 4 hours.
DD
Regular call
The nature of the Distress call should be included in the Dis-
tress call.
q Enter “
DDiissttrreessss SSeettttiinngg
” in DSC menu.
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.
When a GPS receiver (NMEA0183 ver. 2.0 or 3.01) is con-
nected, steps e and r (Current position/time program-
ming) do not appear. Go to step t.
--DSC Menu--
Select Nature
Undesignated
˘Explosion
Flooding
Collision
≥
<CLR<CLR˘ExitExit / ENTENT˘OK>OK>
DDSSCC MMeennuu
➪
DDiissttrreessss SSeettttiinngg
(Push [MENU]) (Rotate [SELECTOR], then push [ENT].)
25W INT
TAG
Received
DistressACK
<Osaka Bay
<CLR
˘
Beep Off> CALLING
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