Furuno FS-1570 Operator's Manual page 52

4 DISTRESS OPERATIONS
2. Press the [CANCEL] key to silence the audio alarm, and the display changes as below.
Received message
*
JAN-23-2002-23:59
DISTRESS CALL
ID IN DIST:
123456789
NATURE: UNDESIGNATED
POS:
12˚34N 123˚45E AT 12:34
TELEPHONE
! "
ANSWER
3. If you do not receive the distress acknowledge call from a coast station and you
have received the distress alert more than twice, contact the ship in distress over
radiotelephone. If the distress alert continues, terminate the alert by rotating the
[ENTER] knob to choose ANSWER, push the [ENTER] knob and then go to step 4 to
send the distress acknowledge call to the ship in distress.
4. Push the [ENTER] knob to open the CALL TYPE menu.
Compose message
**
CALLTYPE
RELAY ALL
RELAY COAST
COAST
ACKNOWLEDGE
ID IN
DSC FREQ :
GO TO ALL VIEW
5. Rotate the [ENTER] knob to choose ACKNOWLEDGE and then push the [ENTER]
knob. The following display appears.
Compose message
**
CALL TYPE : ALL SHIPS
DISTRESS ACKNOWLEDGE
ID IN DIST :
DSC FREQ :
GO TO ALL VIEW
6. Press the [CALL] key until the message "Distress acknowledge call in progress?"
appears, to transmit the distress acknowledge call to the ship in distress.
Category distress
transmit sure?
ID IN DIST:
123456789
DSC FREQ :
KEEP PRESSED FOR
4-8
*
ECC: OK
8414.5 KHZ
ALL VIEW
**
2187.5 KHZ
**
123456789
2187.5 KHZ
[CALL] key
pressed
2187.5 KHZ
3 seconds
3S
Distress acknowledge
call in progress!
ID IN DIST :
123456789
DSC FREQ :
2187.5 KHZ
GO TO ALL VIEW