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Operation
4.5.5
Distress alerts
When in distress, distress alerts are always transmitted by pressing the dedicated
key. The distress alerts transmit your own MMSI, ships position, time of the position, and the
nature of distress.
Do not test the distress alert.
Doing so may inconvenience local shipping and rescue centers.
When sending a distress alert, follow the instructions of the ship's captain
or officer in charge.
If a false distress alert is transmitted accidentally, select the Cancel menu
and transmit the distress cancel referring the guidance displayed on the
controller. And then report the false distress alert to a nearby RCC (Rescue
Coordination Center/ in Japan, inform the nearest Japan Coast Guard.)
Information to be reported:
Ship's name, type, nationality, and ID number, the date/time, location and
reason why the false distress alert was transmitted. Also the unit model name
and manufacture number/date, if possible.
Quick distress alerts
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The following describes the procedure to send a distress alert immediately without using menus.
In this case, the nature of distress in the message will be sent as "Undesignated" by default.
Further, if no information for the position and the time of position obtained within 23.5 hours, this
information will be composed automatically.
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Procedure
1 1
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1
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Open the
DISTRESS
2 2
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2
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Press and hold the
seconds until the countdown is completed.
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CAUTION
key cover.
DISTRESS
key for 4
I D 4 3 1 0 0 1 2 3 4
2 3 : 5 9 ( U T C )
P o s 8 9 ﾟ 5 9 . 0 1 2 3 ' N
1 7 9 ﾟ 5 9 . 6 7 8 9 ' E @ 2 3 : 5 9
TEL ITU- 401
4357.00
RX
D i s t r e s s c a l l s t a r t s
4065.00
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TX
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s e c
S I G
N o n D S T :
W K R s c a n b a n d s :
D R O B O S :
2 4 6 8 1 2 1 6 M H z
E d t D S T :
DISTRESS
G
PS
D
UP
kHz
kHz
12 -S N2
M
+
1
ENU
M
+
2
ENU
M
+
3
ENU
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