Sending Distress Alert By Distress Key With Distress Information Edited - Furuno FS-5075 Operator's Manual

When the distress acknowledge call is received, the audio alarm sounds, the LED flashes in
red, the icon for DISTRESS transmitting (
2. Press the CANCEL key to silence the audio alarm. The LED and the icon stop to flash,
and the pop-up message disappears.
3. Communicate with the coast station via radiotelephone, following the instructions below.
When sending the distress alert with MULTI mode, the radiotelephone automatically sets
working frequency on which the distress acknowledge call is received first.
a) Say MAYDAY three times.
b) Say "This is ... " name of your ship and call sign three times.
c) Give nature of distress and assistance needed.
d) Give description of your ship (type, color, number of persons onboard, etc.).
4.1.2 Sending distress alert by DISTRESS key with distress
information edited
If you have the time to designate the distress information, send the distress alert as follows:
1. Press the DISTRESS MSG key to display the following screen.
2. Rotate the ENTER knob to select NATURE and then press the ENTER knob.
DISTRESS ACK received!
[CANCEL]: Stop alarm
COMPOSE MESSAGE
4. DISTRESS OPERATIONS
) flashes. The screen changes as below.
Count up the elapsed time after
receiving distress acknowledge call.
Icon for DISTRESS transmitting
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