User's Manual Part 2

RS81/RS82 VHF

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NOTE The MMSI number/name displayed will be that of the vessel

in distress, not the station that has acknowledged the call.

Press O

K to accept the acknowledgement and automatically

switch to channel 16, or O

N/C to ignore the call.

NOTE Distress Alert calls always use channel 16 as the working

channel.

9.3.7 Distress Alert acknowledgement

If an acknowledgement is received for a Distress Alert sent (nor-

mally from a coast station or Rescue Co-ordination Centre), the

radio will sound an incoming call alarm.

The display will ﬂash between “DISTRESS ACKNOWLEDG”

and the MMSI number of the vessel in distress (or your MMSI

number, if the Distress Alert was sent by the RS82 and the trans-

mission has been cancelled).

If the vessel’s MMSI number is stored in the MMSI directory

(see section 10.2), the display will show the name stored

instead (Fig 9.17).

D I STRESS S

ACKNOWLEDG

INT

FORK I NG 0

ROBERTA00

Fig 9.17 - Distress acknowledgement received