FCC 80.1117 Revised as of October 1, 2007
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Sec. 80.1117 Procedure for receipt and acknowledgement of distress alerts.
(a) Normally, distress calls received using digital selective calling are
only acknowledged using a DSC acknowledgement by a coast station. Ships
should delay any acknowledgement in order to give sufficient time for a
coast station to acknowledge the call. In cases where no acknowledgement has
been heard and no distress traffic has been heard, the ship should transmit
a distress alert relay to the coast station. Upon advice from the Rescue
Coordination Center, the ship may transmit a DSC acknowledgement call to
stop it from being repeated. Acknowledgement by digital selective calling of
receipt of a distress alert in the terrestrial services must comply with
ITU-R Recommendation M.541–8, “Operational Procedures for the Use of Digital
Selective-Calling Equipment in the Maritime Mobile Service,” with Annexes,
1997. ITU-R Recommendation M.541–8 with Annexes is incorporated by
reference. The Director of the Federal Register approves this incorporation
by reference in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR Part 51. Copies of
this standard can be inspected at the Federal Communications Commission, 445
12th Street, SW., Washington, DC (Reference Information Center) or at the
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For information on the
availability of this material at NARA, call 202–741–6030, or go to:
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/code_of_federal_regulations/ibr_loc
ations.html. The ITU-R Recommendation can be purchased from the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Place des Nations, CH–1211
Geneva 20, Switzerland.
(b) Acknowledgement through a satellite of receipt of a distress alert from
a ship earth station must be sent immediately (see Sec. 80.1119).
(c) Acknowledgement by radiotelephony of receipt of a distress alert from a
ship station or a ship earth station must be given in the following form:
(1) The distress signal MAYDAY;
(2) The call sign or other identification of the station sending the
distress message, spoken three times;
(3) The words THIS IS (or DE spoken as DELTA ECHO in case of language
difficulties);
(4) The call sign or other identification of the station acknowledging
receipt, spoken three times;
(5) The word RECEIVED (or RRR spoken as ROMEO ROMEO ROMEO in case of
language difficulties);
(6) The distress signal MAYDAY.
(d) The acknowledgement by direct-printing telegraphy of receipt of a
distress alert from a ship station must be given in the following form:
(1) The distress signal MAYDAY;
(2) The call sign or other identification of the station sending the
distress alert;
(3) The word DE;
(4) The call sign or other identification of the station acknowledging
receipt of the distress alert;
(5) The signal RRR;
(6) The distress signal MAYDAY.
(e) The acknowledgement by direct-printing telegraphy of receipt of a
distress alert from a ship earth station must be given by the coast earth
station receiving the distress alert by retransmitting the ship station
identity of the ship transmitting the distress alert.
[ 51 FR 31213 , Sept. 2, 1986, as amended at 68 FR 46980 , Aug. 7, 2003]
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