Sending Distress Relay On Behalf Of A Ship In Distress; Sending Distress Relay To Coast Station - Furuno DSC-60 Operator's Manual

3.3 Sending Distress Relay on Behalf of a Ship in
Distress
3.3.1

Sending distress relay to coast station

You may send the distress relay to a coast station on behalf of a ship in distress in the following
cases:
You are near the ship in distress and the ship in distress cannot transmit the distress alert.
Another vessel requests you to transmit the distress relay.
In these cases never use the [DISTRESS] button to transmit the distress relay.
Russian Version
If another distress alert or urgent message is received just after pressing the [CALL] key (for
distress alert relay and distress acknowledgement), the most recently received message has
priority.
1. Press the [CALL] key and press the [ENT] key.
Send MESSAGE
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INDIVIDUAL
PSTN CALL
: All ships
CALL TYPE
TEST CALL
: Safety
STATION ID
ALL SHIPS
: Telephone
PRIORITY
GROUP CALL
: 2187.5 kHz
COM. TYPE
AREA CALL
$
COM. FREQ
POSITION
DSC FREQ
2. Select RELAY SEL and press the [ENT] key. Press the [ENT] key to open the COAST ID
entry window.
Send message
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CALL TYPE: RELAY SEL
COAST ID
ID IN DIST
00
NATURE: UNDESIGNATED
POS: 34˚45N 13
COM. TYPE
DSC FREQ.
GO TO ALL VIEW
3. Key in COAST ID and ID and press the [ENT] key.
4. Press the [ENT] key to open the ID IN DIST window.
Send message
***
: RELAY SEL
CALL TYPE
COAST ID: : ---------
---------
ID IN DIST
NATURE : UNDESIGNATED
: --˚--N ---˚--E
POS.:
COM.TYPE :
DSC FREQ :
5. Key in ID of ship in distress and press the [ENT] key. If you do not know the ID leave the
window blank.
If this part of the menu
***
appears, use
the menu.
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POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
RELAY SEL
DISTRESS
***
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: TELEPHONE
: 8414.5 KHZ
***
TELEPHONE
8414.5 KHZ
GO TO ALL VIEW
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