Icom IC-M504 [30/80] D regular call

DSC OPERATION

New2001

➥ A distress alert contains (default);

• Nature of distress : Undesignated distress

• Position data : GPS or manual input position data held

for 23.5 hrs or until the power is turned

OFF.

➥ The distress call is repeated every 3.5–4.5 min., until

receiving an ‘acknowledgement.’

➥ Push [CLR] to cancel the ‘Call repeat’ mode.

➥ “??” may blink instead of position and time indications

when the GPS data is invalid, or has not been manually

updated after 4 hours.

D Regular call

The nature of the distress call should be included in the dis-

tress call.

q Push [MENU] to enter the DSC menu.

w Rotate [DIAL] to select “Distress Setting,” and

push [DIAL•ENTER].

e Rotate [DIAL] to select the nature of the distress, push

[DIAL•ENTER].

• ‘Undesignated,’ ‘Explosion,’ ‘Flooding,’ ‘Colli-

sion,’ ‘Grounding,’ ‘Capsizing,’ ‘Sinking,’ ‘Adrift

(Disable adrift),’ ‘

Abandoning (Abandoning ship),’ ‘Piracy

(Piracy attack)’ and ‘MOB (Man overboard)’ are available.

• The selected nature of the distress is stored for 10 minutes.

--DSC Menu--

Select Nature

Undesignated

˘Explosion

Flooding

Collision

--DSC Menu--

Select Item

All Ships Call

Position Request

Position Report

Polling Request

Received Calls

˘Distress Setting