Furuno FS-5070 Manual De Usuario

4. DISTRESS OPERATIONS 

 

Your ship receives the distress relay when: 

• 

the coast station sends the distress relay to your ship. (DISTRESS RELAY COAST) 

• 

the coast station sends the distress relay to the area where you are navigating. 

 
When you receive a distress relay message from a coast station, continue monitoring 
distress and safety frequencies. The audio alarm sounds and the display looks like the one 
in the left-hand figure below when a distress relay is received from a coast station. 
 
1. Press the CANCEL key to silence the audio alarm, and the display changes as in the 

right-hand figure below. 

POS: 

 12

°

34.000N      DIST: 14nm 

123

°

45.0000E

   AT 12:34

TELEPHONE     

8291.5 kHz

NATURE: UNDESIGNATED

 

Press the
CANCEL key.

MAY-23-2006-23:59

 

 

SHIP ID IN DIST: 

123456789

POS: 

 12

°

34.0000N      DIST: 14nm

123

°

45.0000E

      AT 12:34

TELEPHONE     

8291.5 kHz    10M10S

SENDER ID: 

001234567

NATURE: UNDESIGNATED

DISTRESS RELAY COAST

Received message

Distress relay coast 

message received.

CANCEL: STOP ALARM

 

2. Press the CANCEL key to go to the radiotelephone screen. 
3. Watch distress/safety frequency. 
 

You can cancel the distress call while it is being sent or while waiting for its 
acknowledgement as follows. 
 
1. Press the CANCEL key to show the following display.   

The following message appears. 

TIME TO GO  :               0S

NATURE: UNDESIGNATED

POS:

  12 34.5678N 
123 45.6789E

   

DSC FREQ     :

2187.5 kHz

Distress Proc. is
                   Paused.

     RESEND   CANCEL