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Our aim with this course is to achieve the following:
- To ensure that you understand and have experience of launching
distress alerts (maydays) by voice and using the red DSC (Distress
Selective Calling) button.
- To give you practical hands on experience of making calls on the
radio. We do this in a progressive way starting with scripted calls
between those on the course moving on to giving you scenarios that you
need to make a call from. We've found this method works really well to
help you get more confidence in the use of the radio exploring the various
ways you use the radio and the associated channel numbers to use.
- We're also as we go covering the syllabus ensuring that all of the
areas that the examination covers are addressed by the time we get to the
end of the afternoon.
We divide the day as follows:
The morning session will cover the practical operation of a standard
Marine VHF, Channel usage, Distress/Urgency/Safety and routine voice
procedures.
In the afternoon we go onto look at the GMDSS scheme, equipment used in
GMDSS i.e. EPIRBs, SARTS, Digital Selective Calling (DSC) NAVTEX, practical
use of DSC equipment.
At the end of the course there is a multiple choice examination. The
examination is straightforward and the subjects addressed in the exam are
all covered during the course itself.
Course Requirements:
- Fluency in the phonetic alphabet.
- One passport photograph plus a cheque for £22 (£25 from 1st April) to the
RYA for the issue of the Operators Certificate.
Apart from these requirements, no previous knowledge is assumed.
We are unusual as a school as we run a considerable number of training
radios meaning that we are likely to have a radio identical or similar to
the one you will have in your boat. This also means that even on large
courses there will usually be a radio for each person. We have
radios from:
- Icom (M601/3, M505, M421)
- Navman
- Silva (now known as Nexus)
- Raymarine
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