Syllabus - RYA VHF / SRC Radio Course
To be awarded the VHF Short Range Certificate students must be able to:
1. Distress Situations
- Define a distress situation
- Initiate a DSC Distress Alert with position and time input manually or automatically
- Send a Mayday call and message by voice
- Respond appropriately to a DSC distress alert and to a Mayday call and message including relay of a distress message.
- Know how to deploy an EPIRB and a SART
2. Urgency Situations
- Define an urgency situation
- Initiate a DSC urgency alert
- send a Pan Pan call and message by voice
- Respond appropriately to an urgency message
3. Safety Situations
- Identify a situation in which a safety message is appropriate
- Input a DSC safety alert
- Send a safety message by voice
- Receive Maritime Safety Information by NAVTEX
4. Routine Communication
- Initiate a DSC routine alert
- Establish communication and exchange messages with other stations by voice on appropriate channels
- Test the radiotelephone by means of an appropriate test call
- Initiate a DSC self test
- Enter a DSC group and individual MMSI
- Maintain an appropriate listening watch on DSC and voice channels
- Use the International Phonetic Alphabet
