Standard Horizon HX850S Owner's Manual page 34

Transmitting a DSC Distress Alert with Nature of Distress
The HX850S is capable of transmitting a DSC Distress Alert with the following
"Nature of Distress" categories:
Undesignated, Fire, Flooding, Collision, Grounding, Capsizing, Sinking,
Adrift, Abandoning, Piracy, and MOB.
1. Lift the red DISTRESS rubber cover on the right side
of the transceiver and press the [ DISTRESS ] key. The
"DISTRESS ALERT DISTRESS ALERT" menu will appear on the display.
DISTRESS ALERT DISTRESS ALERT
DISTRESS ALERT
2. Press the [ ] / [ ] key to select the desired "Nature of
Distress" category.
3. When the HX850S internal GPS receiver has a fix, skip
to step 4. When the HX850S internal GPS receiver is
either disabled or is not receiving a fix, you may enter in
your coordinates and send them manually as detailed below.
a. Press the [ CALL ( ENT ) MENU ] key twice. The dis-
play will be as shown in the illustration on the right.
b. Enter your local time by the 24-hour system on the
UTC time with the [ ] / [ ] / [ CALL ( ENT ) MENU ] /
[ H/L (
c. Enter the Latitude/Longitude of your vessel loca-
tion with the [
[ H/L (
d. To store the data entered, press and hold the [ CALL ( ENT ) MENU ] key.
4. Press and hold the [ DISTRESS ] key. The radios dis-
play will count down (3-2-1), and afterwards the
HX850S will transmit the DSC Distress Alert on chan-
nel 70. The backlight of the display and keypad flashes
while the radios display is countdown. When the Dis-
tress signal is being sent, "
the display.
5. The transceiver "shadow-watches" for a transmission
between Channel and Channel 70 until an acknowl-
edgment signal is received. The display will be shown
in the illustration on the right.
6. If an acknowledgment is received, select channel 16
and advise your distress situation.
7. If no acknowledgment is received, the distress call is repeated in 4 minute
intervals until an acknowledgment is received.
8. When a DSC Distress acknowledgment is received, a distress alarm sounds
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)] key.
] / [ ] / [ CALL ( ENT ) MENU ] /
)] key.
" icon will appear on
HX850S