Installation manual

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DISTRESS
Rapid Distress Call
1. Open the Distress Button cover.
2. Press and hold the Distress Button.
Keep pressing the button.
You will hear an Alarm Tone.
3. The display will show different screens
and may prompt you for more information.
Ignore the prompts.
Keep pressing the button
until you see this screen.
4. If you have sufficient time transmit a voice distress message
(If possible wait 15 seconds for any DSC acknowledgement before transmitting.)
Pick up the microphone, press the PTT (TALK) button and call for help:
‘MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY
This is Ship name, Ship name, Ship name
MAYDAY
This is Ship name, Callsign.
Position:……………………………….
Nature of distress:…….……………..
Help needed:………………………….
(any other information)
OVER’
;Ò
Distress Call
Undesignated
Wait for Acknowledge
Reset
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DISTRESS
IMPORTANT:
To send a Distress Call,
(without designating the distress type),
do this:
IMPORTANT: Do NOT make a distress call unless there is grave and imminent
danger. It is an offence to make any unjustified distress call.