Instruction Manual

Operation
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4.4.5 Distress relay calls
After receiving a distress call, ship stations have to watch on CH16 for at least 5 minutes. But if there
is no distress traffic on CH16 in the meantime, the distress relay call will be available to inform a coast
station of the distress call transmitted by the ship in distress.
4.4.5.1 Sending a distress relay call
A distress relay call can be composed from the log of the received distress message.
■ Procedure ■
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Press the MENU key, and through
hierarchical menus, select the 4.1 Received
distress list.
On the bottom line, the MMSI of the ship
highlighted by the cursor will be displayed.
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Select the distress call to be relayed and
press ENT.
The distress message will be displayed.
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Select Relay with the jog dial and press ENT.
The popup message at right will be displayed.
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After confirmed the popup message,
select "Continue" and press ENT.
The address inputting screen will be displayed.
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Press ENT to display the station list of both
the coast stations and the ship stations, and
select the desired station with the jog dial.
When inputting the MMSI manually, press the
CANCEL key to return to the previous screen
and input it using the numeric keypad.
4.1)Received distress list
Date/Time Type
'06-12-31 14:55 Distress
From: 987654321
Distress relay call
Address :[ ]
[ OK ] [Cancel]
Received distress message
Type :Distress
From :987654321
Nature :Fire
Position :34ﾟ00.1234'N
140ﾟ00.1234'E
UTC :14:55
[Close] [ACK] [Relay]
Received distress message
From :431001234
Nature :Fire
Position :34ﾟ00.1234'S
140ﾟ00.1234'W
UTC :14:55
EOS :EOS
[Close] [ACK] [Relay]
- Attention ! -
Normally, this call
should be sent to
coast station.
[Continue] [Cancel]
Station list [A]
NAME MMSI
Argentina 001234567
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bolivia
Bangladesh
002222222
003333333
004444444
005555555
Select the initial of the name.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ