D Regular Call - Icom IC-M504A Instruction Manual

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r After receiving the acknowledgment, reply using the micro-
phone.
25W
TAG
Received
DistressACK
<Osaka Bay
<CLR ˘
Beep Off>
➥ A distress alert contains (default);
• Kind of distress : Undesignated distress
• Position data
: The latest GPS or manual input position
data is held for 23.5 hours, or until the
power is turned OFF.
➥ The Distress call is repeated every 3.5 to 4.5 minutes, until
an 'acknowledgement' is received. ('Call repeat' mode)
➥ Push [DISTRESS] to transmit a renewed Distress call,
if required.
➥ Push [CLR] to transmit the Cancel Ack call, then cancel
the 'Call repeat' mode.
➥ "??" may blink instead of position and time displays
when the GPS data is invalid, or has not been manually
updated for 4 hours.
INT
CALLING

D Regular call

The nature of the Distress call should be included in the Dis-
tress call.
q Enter "Distress Setting" in the DSC menu.
DSC Menu
Distress Setting
(Push [MENU])
(Rotate [DIAL], then push [DIAL•ENTER].)
w Rotate [DIAL] to select the nature of the distress, then
push [DIAL•ENTER].
• 'Undesignated,' 'Explosion,' 'Flooding,' 'Collision,' 'Grounding,'
'Capsizing,' 'Sinking,' 'Adrift (Disable adrift),' 'Abandoning (Aban-
doning ship),' 'Piracy (Piracy attack)' and 'MOB (Man overboard)'
are available.
• The nature of the distress is stored for 10 minutes after a selec-
tion is made.
--DSC Menu--
Select Nature
Undesignated
˘Explosion
Flooding
Collision
<CLR˘Exit / ENT ˘ OK>
When a GPS receiver (NMEA0183 ver. 2.0 or 3.01) is con-
nected, steps e and r (Current position/time program-
ming) do not appear. Go to step t.
DSC OPERATION
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