Furuno FS-5070 Operator's Manual page 47

Sending the distress acknowledge call to ship in distress (on MF band)
Note: You cannot send the distress acknowledge call for five minutes because of receiving
the distress acknowledgement from the coast station.
Transmit the distress acknowledge call to the ship in distress only when you do not receive
it from a coast station and you are able to aid the ship in distress. First, transmit the
distress acknowledge to the ship in distress by telephone. To terminate transmission of the
distress alert, send acknowledge call as follows.
The audio alarm sounds and the display shows the message "Distress alert message
received." When your ship receives a distress alert.
Distress alert
message received.
DISTRESS CALL
SHIP IN DIST:
CANCEL: STOP ALARM
NATURE: UNDESIGNATED
°
123 4500E
TELEPHONE
1. Press the CANCEL key to silence the audio alarm and the display changes as below.
State of Waiting
For Acknowledge.
PUSH ANY KEY.
2. If you do not receive the distress acknowledge call from a coast station and you
have received the distress alert more than twice, contact the ship in distress over
radiotelephone.
3. If the distress alert continues, terminate the alert by rotating the ENTER knob to choose
ANSWER, push the ENTER knob and then go to step 4 to send the distress
acknowledge call to the ship in distress.
4. Push the ENTER knob to open the MSG TYPE menu.
Compose msg.
MSG TYPE
RELAY COAST
RELAY AREA
COAST
ACKNOWLEDGE
SHIP ID IN
DSC FREQ :
10 seconds
123456789
AT 12:34
2182.0 kHz
Press any key.
2187.5 kHz
GO TO VIEW
4. DISTRESS OPERATIONS
Distress alert
message received.
PLEASE PUSH CANCEL KEY.
*
Received message
JAN-23-2006-23:59
DISTRESS ALERT
SHIP ID IN DIST:
123456789
NATURE: UNDESIGNATED
POS:
12 34.000N DIST: 43nm
123 45.000E AT 12:34
TELEPHONE
2182.0 kHz 10M10S
ANSWER
GO TO VIEW
*
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