Uniden MHS135 Owner's Manual page 2

Lift the black cover. Press and hold the
Making a Distress Call
button for three seconds. Your radio transmits your
boat's location every few minutes until you receive
a response.
# nOte: if the radio displays Enter User
MMSI, cancel the automatic distress call and make a normal
voice distress call.
Making a Voice Distress Call
For future reference, write your boat's name & call sign here:
Speak slowly - clearly - calmly.
1. Make sure your radio is on.
2. On the microphone, press the
16 (156.8 MHz). (If the corner of the display does not show 16, press
the
3. Press the
16/9-TRI
"MAYDAY -- MAYDAY -- MAYDAY."
PUSH TO TALK
4. Say "THIS IS {name of your boat (three times) and call sign/boat
5. Repeat "MAYDAY {name of your boat}" once.
registration number (once)."
6. Tell where you are: (what navigational aids or landmarks are near, or
read the latitude and longitude from your GPS).
7. State the nature of your distress (e.g. are you sinking, medical
emergency, man overboard, on fire, adrift, etc. ).
8. State the type of assistance you need (medical, towing, pumps, etc.).
9. Give number of persons aboard and conditions of any injured persons.
10. Estimate present seaworthiness of your ship (e.g. how immediate is
the danger due to flooding or fire or proximity to shore).
11. Briefly describe your ship, giving ship name (e.g. "Blue Duck is 32 foot
cabin cruiser, white hull, blue deck house").
12. Say: "I WILL BE LISTENING ON CHANNEL 16."
13. End message by saying "THIS IS {name or call sign of your boat},
OVER."
16/9-TRI
button again until it does.)
button on the microphone and say:
DISTRESS
button to switch to Channel
Lift the black
cover and
press the red
DISTRESS
button
underneath.