Sending Distress Relay To All Ships - Furuno FS-1570 Operator's Manual

4 DISTRESS OPERATIONS
16. When you receive the distress relay acknowledge call, the audio alarm sounds and
the display shown below appears.
Distress relay ack
call received.
COAST ID :
SHIP IN DIST : NO INFO
NATURE : SINKING
POS :
12 34N 123 45E AT 12:34
TELEPHONE
8291.0 KHZ
STOP ALARM
17. Press the [CANCEL] key to silence the audio alarm. The following display appears.
Received message
*
JAN-23-2002-23:59
DISTRESS RELAY ACK
COAST ID :
SHIP IN DIST : NO INFO
NATURE : SINKING
POS :
12 34N 123 45E AT 12:34
TELEPHONE
8291.0 KHZ
GO TO ALL VIEW
18. Communicate with the coast station.

4.3.2 Sending distress relay to all ships

Use this procedure to send the distress relay to all ships.
1. Press the [2/DSC] key and then push the [ENTER] knob.
Compose message
**
INDIVIDUAL
: All ships
CALL TYPE
PSTN CALL
TEST CALL
: Safety
STATION ID
ALL SHIPS
: Telephone
PRIORITY
GROUP CALL
: 2187.5 kHz
COM. TYPE
AREA CALL
COM. FREQ
$
POSITION
DSC FREQ
GO
2. Rotate the [ENTER] knob to choose RELAY ALL and then push the [ENTER] knob.
3. Push the [ENTER] knob to open the ID IN DIST menu.
Compose message
**
CALL TYPE: RELAY ALL
ID IN DIST
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NATURE: UNDESIGNATED
POS: 34 45N 135 45E AT 9:30
COM. TYPE :
DSC FREQ. :
GO TO ALL VIEW
4. Key in ID of ship in distress (if known) with the numeric keys and then push the
[ENTER] knob. (If you do not know the ID enter push the [ENTER] knob without
entering ID.)
4-16
001234567
*
ECC:OK
001234567
**
Rotate [ENTER]
knob to scroll.
**
TELEPHONE
8414.5 KHZ
$
POLLING
NEUTRAL
MEDICAL
RELAY ALL
RELAY SEL
DISTRESS