Making An Automatic Distress Call - Uniden UM380BK Owner's Manual

Group calling calls all the stations that share your group MMSI. You must have a group MMSI
Calling a particular group of stations (Group Call)
programmed into the radio to make a group call, and the stations (boats) you are calling
must have this same group MMSI programmed into their radios.
1. Press
2. Select Group.
CALL-MENU
3. The radio prompts you to select a response channel. Use
to scroll through the available channels. When you reach the channel you want to use for
a response, press
4. The radio asks you to confirm the call. Select Send to continue with the call or select
Cancel to cancel the call.
5. The radio switches to channel 70 to transmit the call request then automatically switches
to the designated response channel.
All ships calling contacts all DSC radios within range of your boat. You should only use all
Calling all stations (All-Ships Call)
ships calling in the event of a Safety warning (such as debris in the water) or to request
assistance in an Urgency (any situation where your vessel has a serious problem but is not
yet in distress).
1. Open the call menu.
2. Select All Ships, and then choose whether this is an Urgency call or a Safety call.
3. The radio asks you to confirm the call. Select Send to continue with the call or select
Cancel to cancel the call.
4. The radio automatically switches to channel 70 to transmit the call request then
automatically switches to channel 16, the designated response channel for all-ships
calling.
If you have programmed your MMSI number, your radio can transmit an automated distress

Making an automatic distress call

call with your current location and nature of the distress. The radio then monitors the
channel 16 for a response and repeats the distress call every few minutes until it receives an
acknowledgement.
To send an automatic distress call, press and hold DISTRESS for three seconds. If
no MMSI number has been programmed, the radio prompts you to enter your MMSI
If you want to include the nature of your distress in the distress call, use the following
number.
distress procedure:
1. Press
2. The radio displays the list of distress conditions; use
DISTRESS
choose the nature of your distress, then press and hold
Undesignated
Adrift
Collision
Overboard
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to display the call menu.
.
ENT-1W/25W
.
Sinking
Flooding
Piracy.Armed
Capsizing
and
CHANNEL UP CHANNEL DOWN
and
for three seconds.
CHANNEL UP CHANNEL DOWN
DISTRESS
Fire
Abandoning
Grounding
to
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