Cobra MR HH450 MR HH450 DUAL Manual - English - Page 10

Encoding SAME Alerts, Emergency Messages and, Distress Procedure

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Introduction For Example Emergency Messages and Distress Procedure Intro Operation Customer Assistance Warranty "Mayday - Mayday - Mayday" "This is Corsair - Corsair - Corsair" [or "IL 1234 AB," repeated three (3) times] Installation "Mayday Corsair (or IL 1234 AB)" Customer Assistance "Navy Pier bears 220 Secondary Icons degrees magnetic - distance 5 miles" "Struck submerged object and flooding - need pump and tow" "Four (4) adults, three (3) children aboard - no one injured" "Estimate we will remain aflNooaticteone-haClafuhtioonur" Warning "Corsair (or IL 1234 AB) is 26 ft sloop with blue hull and tan deck house" "I will be listening on Channel 16" "This is Corsair (or IL 1234 AB)" "Over" It is a good idea to write out a script of the message form and post it where you and others on your vessel can see it when an emergency message needs to be sent. Main Icons Introduction Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) Alerts Intro Operation Customer Warranty Specific Area Message EncAsosisdtanicne g (SAME) Alerts • The MR HH450 DUAL radio is capable of receiving Specific Area Message Intro OEpenractioon dingCu(sStomAerME) AWlaerrarnttys. During an NWR weather SAME alert, a code for your specific loAscsaisttainocen preprogrammed swpilelcaifleicrtayrInoestuaallatotoirondaestpeerCAicosusisrfitsaoitcmatnienceregvewnteasuthcehr conditions in a as a Severe Thunderstorm Secondary Icons Watch or TroSpeciocnadalrySIctoonsrm Warning. There are over 900 National Weather Radio (NWR) Installation serCAvsussiitscotmaenecrestations using broadcast frequencies that transmit SAME alerts. You must program your county, parish or independent city or marine area into the radio. NOTE Notice Caution Warning DO NOT program your radio for a louder or clearer station not designated as Notice a SAME Caution chanWnaerniln.gYou will not receive the local desired alerts. The NWR service will then alert you only of weather and other emergencies for all areas programmed on this radio. • When an NWR office broadcasts a warning, watch or non-weather emergency, it also broadcasts a digital SAME code that may be heard as a very brief static burst, depending on the characteristics of the radio. This SAME code contains the type of message; county(s) affected, and message expiration time. • If programmed correctly, this radio will receive the weather channel so you can listen to the NWR SAME message. You will hear the 1050 Hz warning alarm tone as an attention signal, followed by the broadcast message. • At the end of the broadcast message, you will hear a brief digital end-of message static burst followed by a resumption of the NWR broadcast cycle. SAME coverage areas are defined within the "NWR Broadcast Service Area" and are comprised of named counties, boroughs, metropolitan areas or portions thereof. NWR "Broadcast Service Area" coverage by State can be found at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr or by telephone at 1-888-NWRSAME (1-888-697-7263). The information at the following website, http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw. htm#sametable, will help to program the SAME alert county codes and respective frequencies into this radio. This site also lists SAME code Marine zones for bounded and named water areas. 14 English Nothing Comes Close to a Cobra® 15

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Introduction
15
Nothing
Comes Close to a Cobra
®
Specific Area Message
Encoding (SAME) Alerts
14
English
Introduction
Emergency Messages and
Distress Procedure
For Example
“Mayday — Mayday — Mayday”
“This is Corsair — Corsair — Corsair” [or “IL 1234 AB,” repeated three (3) times]
“Mayday Corsair (or IL 1234 AB)”
“Navy Pier bears 220 degrees magnetic — distance 5 miles”
“Struck submerged object and flooding — need pump and tow”
“Four (4) adults, three (3) children aboard — no one injured”
“Estimate we will remain afloat one-half hour”
“Corsair (or IL 1234 AB) is 26 ft sloop with blue hull and tan deck house”
“I will be listening on Channel 16”
“This is Corsair (or IL 1234 AB)”
“Over”
It is a good idea to write out a script of the message form and post it where you
and others on your vessel can see it when an emergency message needs to be sent.
Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) Alerts
The MR HH450 DUAL radio is capable of receiving
Specific Area Message
Encoding (SAME) Alerts
. During an NWR weather
SAME
alert, a code for your
specific location will alert you to deteriorating weather conditions in a
preprogrammed specific area or a specific event such as a Severe Thunderstorm
Watch or Tropical Storm Warning. There are over 900 National Weather Radio
(NWR) service stations using broadcast frequencies that transmit
SAME
alerts. You
must program your county, parish or independent city or marine area into the radio.
NOTE
DO NOT
program your radio for a louder or clearer station not designated as
a
SAME
channel. You will not receive the local desired alerts.
The NWR service will then alert you
only
of weather and other emergencies for all
areas programmed on this radio.
• When an NWR office broadcasts a warning, watch or non-weather emergency, it
also broadcasts a digital
SAME
code that may be heard as a very brief static burst,
depending on the characteristics of the radio. This
SAME
code contains the type of
message; county(s) affected, and message expiration time.
• If programmed correctly, this radio will receive the
weather
channel so you can
listen to the NWR
SAME
message. You will hear the 1050 Hz warning alarm tone
as an attention signal, followed by the broadcast message.
• At the end of the broadcast message, you will hear a brief digital end-of message
static burst followed by a resumption of the NWR broadcast cycle.
SAME coverage areas are defined within the “NWR Broadcast Service Area” and are
comprised of named counties, boroughs, metropolitan areas or portions thereof. NWR
“Broadcast Service Area” coverage by State can be found at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr or
by telephone at 1-888-NWRSAME (1-888-697-7263).
The information at the following website, http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/indexnw.
htm#sametable, will help to program the
SAME
alert county codes and respective frequencies
into this radio. This site also lists
SAME
code Marine zones for bounded and named water
areas.