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RYA SHOREBASED AND PRACTICAL COURSES SAIL CRUISING and SRC VHF RADIO COURSES AVAILABLE ALL YEAR ROUND FROM PLYMOUTH

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RYA DAY SKIPPER SHOREBASED	5 day or w/e	£330	CHECK DATES
RYA COASTAL /YACHTMASTER SHOREBASED	5 day or w/e	£400	CHECK DATES
SRC VHF DSC RADIO AND GMDSS	1 day	£75 special	CHECK DATES
ESSENTIAL NAVIGATION AND SAFETY S/B CEVNI, VHF RADIO pre course tests	Go to E Learning.	£85	Go to E Learning.

RYA SRC DSC GMDSS Radio Course

FORMATS: 1 day course

This course covers the use of a VHF Radio equipped with Digital Selective Calling (DSC). This replaces the previous VHF Radio Operators Certificate and is part of the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS).

All VHF Radio users need to obtain this certificate to operate their radios safely and legally!

An addition payment of £30 (payable to the RYA) will be required on the day for the issue of your VHF Licence.For award of an SRC students must be able to:

A. Distress situations

1. Define a distress situation.

2. Initiate a DSC Distress Alert, with position and time input manually or automatically.

3. Send a Mayday call and message by voice.

4. Respond appropriately to a DSC Distress Alert and to a Mayday call and message,

including relay of a distress message.

5. Know how to deploy an EPIRB and a SART.

B. Urgency Situations

1. Define an urgency situation.

2. Initiate a DSC urgency alert.

3. Send a Pan Pan call and message by voice.

4. Respond appropriately to an urgency message.

C. Safety Situations

1. Identify a situation in which a safety message is appropriate.

2. Input a DSC safety alert.

3. Send a safety message by voice.

4. Receive Maritime Safety Information by NAVTEX.

D. Routine Communication

1. Initiate a DCS routine alert.

2. Establish communication and exchange messages with other stations by voice on

appropriate channels.

3. Test the radiotelephone by means of an appropriate test call.

4. Initiate a DSC self test.

5. Enter a DSC group and Individual MMSI.

6. Maintain an appropriate listening watch on DSC and voice channels.

7. Use the International Phonetic Alphabet.

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