Receiving Distress Relay From Coast Station; Cancelling Distress Call - Furuno FS-5070 Operator's Manual

4.4

Receiving Distress Relay from Coast Station

Your ship receives the distress relay when:
the coast station sends the distress relay to your ship. (DISTRESS RELAY COAST)
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the coast station sends the distress relay to the area where you are navigating.
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When you receive a distress relay message from a coast station, continue monitoring
distress and safety frequencies. The audio alarm sounds and the display looks like the one
in the left-hand figure below when a distress relay is received from a coast station.
1. Press the CANCEL key to silence the audio alarm, and the display changes as in the
right-hand figure below.
Distress relay coast
message received.
CANCEL: STOP ALARM
NATURE: UNDESIGNATED
POS:
°
12 34.000N
°
45.0000E AT 12:34
123
TELEPHONE
2. Press the CANCEL key to go to the radiotelephone screen.
3. Watch distress/safety frequency.
4.5

Cancelling Distress Call

You can cancel the distress call while it is being sent or while waiting for its
acknowledgement as follows.
1. Press the CANCEL key to show the following display.
The following message appears.
Distress Proc. is
Paused.
NATURE: UNDESIGNATED
POS:
12 34.5678N
RESEND CANCEL
RESUME
123 45.6789E
DSC FREQ :
TIME TO GO :
Press the
CANCEL key.
DIST: 14nm
8291.5 kHz
2187.5 kHz
0S
4. DISTRESS OPERATIONS
Received message
MAY-23-2006-23:59
DISTRESS RELAY COAST
SENDER ID:
001234567
SHIP ID IN DIST:
123456789
NATURE: UNDESIGNATED
POS:
°
12 34.0000N DIST: 14nm
°
AT 12:34
123 45.0000E
TELEPHONE
8291.5 kHz
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