ylop
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I had a quick look at my manual and an ICOM manual to see if there was any explanation - and it doesn't explicitly say if "Distress Cancelled" triggers an alarm if only distress messages are set to alarm.Yes it could well be that my set doesn’t distinguish, in which case this is a problem with the spec as I’ve never seen a consumer device do that.
I wonder if the "correct" procedure though when they upgrade a call or get a 999 call they declare as a distress is for the CG to issue a DSC Mayday Relay? It seems that's what it should be, and then if they did that the responsibility is then on them to cancel it.No, there definitely wasn’t a DSC from the boat in distress, he didn’t even call a mayday he just asked for assistance from nearby vessels.
I am intending to upgrade my radio (whenever other stuff stops costing me unexpectedly!) to one which supports a remote mike so that I don't need to go below to switch channel, cancel DSC etc. Whilst we get far fewer incidents - the probability that I'm the closest boat is much higher than in the solent.We had three “mayday” calls on just that day alone. I don’t think any of them actually initiated a mayday from the boat end. Meanwhile we were battling the conditions and trying to sail our own boat while also silencing non urgent alarms. Eventually I turned off the VHF![]()