Operation Manual

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Distress
Boats that have sent DSC distress
messages and their positions.
16-1 The windows
Poll
Boats you have manually
polled on the VHF radio, and
their position at that time.
Buddy track
Buddy boats from your DSC radio.
The radio regularly calls the boats
and updates their positions.
When your DSC radio receives a distress
message, the Instrument creates a
distress waypoint at the boat position.
Distress waypoints have default names
like DSTRSS01. The Instrument displays a
Distress warning.
Select:
OK to return to what you were doing.
Display to switch to Chart and display
the position of the boat sending the
distress message.
Boat positions
The boat positions on the Instrument can
differ from the true boat positions:
Distress: The position is the distress
waypoint, which is where the boat was
when it sent the distress message.
Polled boats: The position is where the
boat was when you last polled the boat.
Buddy track:: The position is where the
boat was when your radio last polled the
boat.