User's Manual Part 2

RS81/RS82 VHF

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Use the VOL ▲ and VOL ▼ keys to scroll through the available

Nature of Distress categories:

• Undeﬁned (default)

• Abandoning

• Piracy

• MOB

• Fire

• Flooding

• Collision

• Grounding

• Listing

• Sinking

• Adrift

Press and hold the D

ISTRESS key to begin the 5-second count-

down – the large digits will count down from 5 to 1 before ini-

tiating the Distress Alert, then the display will change to show

“SENDING ALERT” (Fig 9.10).

NOTE The Distress Alert call can be aborted, if the DISTRESS key is

released at any time before the 5-second countdown has

ended. Press O

N/C to return to normal radio operation.

The Distress Alert call sent includes the vessel’s MMSI number,

the nature of the distress as speciﬁed, the time the call was sent

and the current position of the vessel (if the appropriate naviga-

tional receiver is connected to the radio, or a manual position

has been entered; see section 11.3).

The radio will switch to monitoring channel 16 and the display

will show “AWAITING ACKNOWLEDG” until an acknowl-

edgement is received. The radio will automatically repeat the

alert approximately every four minutes, until either an

acknowledgement is received, or O

N/C is pressed (it is not rec-

ommended that the Distress Alert is cancelled manually by pressing

ON/C, unless you are requested to do so by the rescue authorities).

SEND I NGAAA

ALER T BBBBB

INT

Fig 9.10 - Sending a Distress Alert