New2001If your vessel requres assstance, contact other vessels andthe Coast Guard by sendng a Dstress call on Channel 16.USING CHANNEL 16DISTRESS CALL PROCEDURE1. “MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY.”2. “THIS IS ...............” (name of vessel).3. Say your call sgn or other ndcaton of the vessel (AND9-dgt DSC ID f you have one).4. “LOCATED AT ...............” (your poston).5. State the nature of the dstress and assstance requred.6. Gve any other nformaton whch mght facltate therescue.Or, transmt your Dstress call usng dgtal selectve callngon Channel 70.USING DIGITAL SELECTIVE CALLING (Ch 70)DISTRESS CALL PROCEDURE1. W h l e l f t n g u p t h e key c ove r, p u s h a n d h o l d[DISTRESS] for 3 sec. untl you hear 3 short beepschange to one long beep.2. Wat for an acknowledgment on Channel 70 from acoast staton.• After the acknowledgement s receved, Channel 16 s auto-matcally selected.3. Push and hold [PTT], then transmt the appropratenformaton as lsted above.The nstallaton of ths equpment should be made n such amanner as to respect the EC recommended electromagnetcfield exposure lmts (1999/519/EC).The maxmum RF power avalable from ths devce s 25watts. The antenna should be nstalled as hgh as possblefor maxmum effcency and that ths nstallaton heghtshould be at least 5 meters above ground (or accessble)level. In the case where an antenna cannot be nstalled ata reasonable heght, then the transmtter should nether becontnuously operated for long perods f any person s wthn5 meters of the antenna, nor operated at all f any person stouchng the antenna.In all cases any possble rsk depends on the transmtterbeng actvated for long perods. (actual recommendatonlmts are specfied as an average of 6 mnutes) Normally thetransmtter s not actve for long perods of tme. Some radolcenses wll requre that a tmer crcut automatcally cuts thetransmtter after 1–2 mnutes etc.Smlarly some types of transmtter, SSB, CW, AM, etc. havea lower ‘average’ output power and the perceved rsk s evenlower.IN CASE OF EMERGENCY INSTALLATION NOTE