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3. Enter the latitude/longitude of your vessel and your
local UTC time in the 24-hour notation by the CHAN-
NEL knob. Rotate the CHANNEL knob to select the
number and press the [ ENT ] soft key to move the
cursor to the next character. You may backspace
the cursor by pressing the [ BACK ] soft key, if you
make a mistake.
4. When you have completed your selection, press and
hold in the [ ENT ] soft key for two seconds to save
the setting.
5. Press and hold the [ DISTRESS ] key. The radios dis-
play will count down (3-2-1) and then transmit the
Distress call. The backlight of the display and key-
pad flashes while the radios display is countdown.
6. When the distress signal is sent, the transceiver
"shadow-watches" for a transmission between CH16
and CH70 until an acknowledgment signal is received.
7. If no acknowledgment is received, the distress call
is repeated in 4 minute intervals until an acknowl-
edgment is received.
8. When a DSC Distress acknowledgment is received,
a distress alarm sounds and channel 16 is auto-
matically selected. The display shows the MMSI of
the ship responding to your distress.
RECEIVED ACK:
RECEIVED RLY ACK: relay acknowledgment signal is received from another
9. Press the PTT button and state your name, vessel name, number of per-
sons on board and the distress situation, then say over. wait for a reply
from the acknowledging ship.
10. To cancel the DSC Distress alarm signal from the speaker, press any key.
Cancel a DSC Distress Call
If a DSC Distress call was sent by error the GX2000/GX2100 allows you to send
a message to other vessels to cancel the Distress Call that was made in error.
Press the [ CANCEL ] soft key,
then press [ YES ] soft key.
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acknowledgment signal is re-
ceived.
vessel or coast station.
GX2000/GX2100