GME Accusat MT403 User manual

MT403/G INSTRUCTION MANUAL 1
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INSTRUCTION MANUAL
EPIRB
Water or Manually Activated Class 2 406 MHz EPIRB
MT403
MT403G with GPS
FINAL ARTWORK PROOF
DRAWING # 44212-6
PART # 310424
JIRA REFERENCE GRA-1662
SUPPLIER QP International
ECO
8519
MPE #
PRINTING SPECIFICATIONS: MT403 & MT403G IM
Size: 100 (w) x 188 (h) mm
Stock: 130gsm + Gloss Laminiate
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Part Number:310424 Drawing Number: 44212-6

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Owner details .......................................................3
FEATURES..............................................................3
MT403G ADDITIONAL FEATURES ............................................3
GENERAL DESCRIPTION ...................................................4
About the Cospas-Sarsat system .........................................5
About 406 MHz beacons...............................................5
REGISTRATION AND TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP .................................5
PREVENTING ACCIDENTAL ACTIVATION .......................................6
INSTALLATION ..........................................................7
BRACKET RELEASE AND STOWAGE ...........................................7
To remove the EPIRB ..................................................7
To stow the EPIRB ....................................................8
IN AN EMERGENCY.......................................................8
Using the beacon as a last resort .........................................8
Manual activation ....................................................8
Water activation .....................................................8
DEPLOYING THE EPIRB ....................................................9
TURNING THE EPIRB OFF. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
IN THE EVENT OF ACCIDENTAL ACTIVATION ...................................10
BATTERIES AND MAINTENANCE ............................................10
SAFETY SEAL ..........................................................11
TESTING THE EPIRB......................................................11
GPS satellite acquisition test (MT403G only) ...............................12
TRANSPORTATION ......................................................12
DISPOSAL .............................................................12
SPECIFICATIONS ........................................................13
NATIONAL AUTHORITY DETAILS ............................................14
Australia ..........................................................14
New Zealand.......................................................14
STANDARD COMMUNICATIONS WARRANTY AGAINST DEFECTS ....................14
CONTACTS .....................................................BACK PAGE
CONTENTS

MT403/G INSTRUCTION MANUAL 3
OWNER DETAILS
Name: ............................................................
Address: ..........................................................
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Phone: ............................................................
Beacon UIN/15-HEX ID:
Congratulaons on purchasing your new Accusat™ MT403 series EPIRB.
The Accusat™ MT403/MT403G are the most advanced 406 MHz digital satellite
beacons available today.
FEATURES
• Quick release mounng bracket
• Zero warm up period
• Full Class 2 internaonal accredited specicaon
• COSPAS-SARSAT worldwide operaon
• Naonal and Internaonal Approvals
• Buoyant and waterproof design (exceeds IP67)
• Ultra high performance solid state strobe
• Automac water acvaon and can be manually acvated
• Simple self-test funcons with audio and visual alert
• Digital 406 MHz 5 wa transmission plus 121.5 MHz homer
• Rugged, lightweight, easy to mount compact design
• 6 year warranty
• 6 year baery life
MT403G ADDITIONAL FEATURES
•Integrated 16 channel GPS receiver with top mounted Quad helix antenna for
beer than 100 m accuracy.
A CAUTIONARY NOTE: The satellite EPIRB is the most signicant advance in search
and rescue technology in many years. However, it is not a substute for a marine
radio. Mariners should not be over-reliant on any single system. Wise, safe mariners
plan carefully, ensure that shore contacts know their sail plan, carry a marine radio
and the correct range of other safety equipment and operate their cra sensibly to
suit condions at sea.

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GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Accusat™ MT403 and MT403G digital Emergency Posion Indicang Radio
Beacons (EPIRB) are designed for use when the safety of your cra and crew is
endangered and you have no other means of communicaon. The EPIRB can save
your life and the lives of others on board by leading an air/sea rescue to your
precise locaon. In the past, extensive and lengthy searches have been carried out
for missing cra, somemes to no avail.
Your GME EPIRB is a self contained 406 MHz radio transmier that emits an
internaonally-recognised distress signal on a frequency monitored by the COSPAS-
SARSAT satellite system. The MT403 and MT403G contain a unique identy code
which can be cross referenced to a database of registered 406 MHz beacons,
allowing the beacon’s owner or vessel to be immediately idened in the event
of an emergency. Both models can be manually acvated by the operator in an
emergency situaon and will also automacally acvate out of the mounng
bracket if oated in water. Addionally each includes an ultra high performance
solid state strobe and 121.5 MHz VHF homing beacon to assist in leading rescuers
to your precise locaon.
The MT403G also features an integrated 16 Channel GPS Receiver which will
automacally acquire a posion and relay the latude and longitude of the beacon
along with the personal idener and emergency signal.
Water
Acvaon
MT403 MT403G
GPS
Antenna
WARNING: USE ONLY IN SITUATIONS OF GRAVE
AND IMMINENT DANGER
MISUSE MAY RESULT IN A SEVERE PENALTY

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ABOUT THE COSPAS-SARSAT SYSTEM
The COSPAS-SARSAT system is a complete global search and rescue service using
geostaonary and polar orbing satellites. Many countries provide ground facilies
known as Local User Terminals (LUTs).
Polar orbing satellites provide complete, although non-connuous, coverage of
the earth (due to the fact that these satellites can only view a poron of the
earth at any given me) and can accurately resolve an acve beacons locaon.
Addionally, geostaonary satellites can give an immediate alerng funcon in
many regions of the world.
The basic COSPAS-SARSAT concept is illustrated in the gure above.
ABOUT 406 MHZ BEACONS
406 MHz beacons provide more accurate and reliable alert data to search and
rescue agencies than the older 121.5/243 MHz systems. The older 121.5 MHz
analogue system required that the satellite be within view of both the beacon and
the LUT before it could transmit the beacons’ posion. This limited the coverage to
an area immediately surrounding the LUT. However, the digital nature of the 406
MHz system means that the satellites are able to store the beacons posion and
digital message, no maer where in the world it is received. These details are then
relayed to the next LUT that comes into range, giving the 406 MHz system true
global coverage.
REGISTRATION AND TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP
Registraon of your 406 MHz satellite EPIRB with the Registraon Secon of your Naonal
Authority is important and now mandatory in most countries because of the global alerng
nature of the COSPAS-SARSAT system.
The informaon provided for registraon is used only for search and rescue purposes.
If your EPIRB is acvated in an emergency, it will transmit its unique idenfying
code that will give the authories immediate access to your details when the
beacon is detected.
In Australia the preferred method of registraon is online at:
hp://www.amsa.gov.au/beacons. Alternavely, ll in the owner registraon form
upon compleon of the sale and mail, fax or email the registraon form to the
relevant naonal authority. Registraon forms are also available online and if the
beacon is to enter service immediately, complete the registraon form and submit to the
relevant naonal authority electronically for immediate registraon.

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Should the beacon be transferred to a new owner, as the previous owner you are
to inform your Naonal Authority by email, fax, leer or telephone of the name
and address of the new owner.
The new owner of the beacon is required to provide their Naonal Authority with
the informaon as shown on the registraon form. This obligaon transfers to all
subsequent owners.
Failure to register your beacon may result in a ne and could result in unnecessary delays in
the rescue process and possible loss of life.
NOTE: Your MT403/403G EPIRB has been programmed with a unique idenfying
code which will be transmied by the beacon in an emergency. Registering your
beacon provides the authories with immediate access to your details when the
beacon is detected. This means they will know who you are, who your emergency
contacts are and what type of vessel or cra you are in. In situaons of accidental
acvaon they can also immediately eliminate your beacon as an emergency
situaon by contacng you when acvaon is detected.
PREVENTING ACCIDENTAL ACTIVATION
The signal from an EPIRB is regarded by authories as an indicaon of distress and is
given an appropriate response. It is the responsibility of every owner of an EPIRB to
ensure that it is not acvated unintenonally or in situaons that do not jusfy its use.
Most cases of accidental transmission result from poor or inappropriate storage or
failure to totally disable an old model EPIRB before disposal. The need to treat EPIRBs
responsibly cannot be too highly emphasized.
The MT403/403G will not commence transming unl approximately 60 seconds
aer acvaon, providing a safety period of audible and visual warning. If you hear
the beacon beeping while it is being carried or stowed, you may sll be able to
deacvate it during this me period without actually transming a distress signal. If
in doubt, report the incident to your local authories just in case.
To minimize the possibility of accidental acvaon, EPIRB owners are urged to pay
careful aenon to the following points:
1. Always stow the EPIRB in the mounng bracket and with the switch cover closed.
The mounng bracket and switch cover are designed specically to prevent
accidental acvaon.
2. Avoid stowing the EPIRB where it may lie in water.
3. Avoid mounng the EPIRB where it will be subjected to connuous direct
sunlight. This could cause the beacon’s internal temperature to exceed the
maximum storage temperature of +70°C. Long term stowage under these
condions could result in reduced baery life, poor performance or degradaon
of the plascs due to excessive U.V. light.
4. Do not allow children to interfere with the EPIRB.
5. Educate others on board your vessel regarding the consequences of acvaon.

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NOTE: Always stow the EPIRB in it’s bracket to minimise the possibility of an
accidental automac acvaon in the presence of moisture. The yellow collar,
provided with this model‘s bracket, contains special features which temporarily
inhibit automac water acvaon of the EPIRB. If transporng the MT403/403G
out of it’s mounng bracket, ensure that it remains completely dry at all mes. Also
keep away from strong magnec elds. eg. speakers.
INSTALLATION
The MT403/403G can be mounted upright or horizontally against a panel or
bulkhead. When selecng a locaon, consider the following:
• Select a locaon that is readily accessible in
an emergency.
• Ensure the unit is protected against the
environment. Avoid locaons where it will be
subject to water spray or connuous sunlight.
• Mount the unit in a locaon where it will be
safe from physical damage and away from
strong magnec elds .
• The specicaons secon contains the
’Compass Safe Distance’ for your parcular
model EPIRB. This is the minimum distance
that must be maintained between an inacve
stowed beacon and any magnec navigaonal
device.
• Conrm the selected locaon allows sucient clearance to remove the beacon
from the bracket when required.
Hold the mounng bracket in place (with the EPIRB removed) and mark the locaon
of the mounng holes. Screw the bracket to the panel or bulkhead using the
stainless steel screws supplied.
Once the bracket is xed in place, t the MT403/403G to the bracket.
BRACKET RELEASE AND STOWAGE
TO REMOVE THE EPIRB
WARNING: DO NOT remove the EPIRB from its mounng
bracket if the unit is wet, it may automacally acvate.
Ensure the unit is thoroughly dry before removal.
1. With one hand, press down on the tab marked
’RELEASE’ at the base of the bracket.
2. Grasp the EPIRB with the other hand and pull it
outwards and downwards.
3. The antenna will release automacally and spring
to the upright posion.

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TO STOW THE EPIRB
1. Insert the EPIRB, antenna rst, upwards into the bracket.
2. Press the p of the antenna against the boom of the three ridges in the antenna
slot and slide the EPIRB upwards into the frame of the bracket so that the
antenna folds over.
3. Press downwards on the ‘RELEASE’ lever and push the EPIRB base rmly into the
bracket unl the lever clicks upwards.
IN AN EMERGENCY
If an emergency occurs, you should rst try to use your radio to summon assistance.
Distress procedures should only be used where grave and imminent danger
threatens your cra and assistance is required. If contact is made, it may not be
necessary to use the beacon. Nofy the ‘Emergency Facility’ that you have a beacon
and that you will turn it on upon their instrucons.
USING THE BEACON AS A LAST RESORT
If dire emergency threatens life and you have been unable to make radio contact
or have lost radio contact, use the beacon. The distress signal transmied by your
beacon idenes you as a cra in distress and will iniate an air/sea search and rescue.
MANUAL ACTIVATION
1. Remove the beacon from the bracket.
2. Li the switch cover (marked ’LIFT’ ).
3. Slide the ’ON’ slider switch fully forward in the
direcon of the arrows. The unit will inially self
test, then aer two seconds the ashing strobe
and beeps will indicate the beacon is operang.
4. Close the cover to secure the switch.
WATER ACTIVATION
1. Remove the beacon from the bracket.
2. Deploy the beacon in water if sea condions permit. The unit will inially self test,
then shortly aer the ashing strobe and beeps will indicate the beacon is operang.
The EPIRB has been designed to maintain connuity of operaon even when the
units sensors leave the water for periods of several seconds at a me. Uninterrupted
operaon is however always best guaranteed by also manually acvang the EPIRB.
If the beacon is to be deployed but not in water the manual acvaon method must be used.

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DEPLOYING THE EPIRB
Unwind the cord and secure the EPIRB to prevent loss.
When acvated, the MT403/403G will transmit the
strongest signal
to the satellites when:
•
It is oang in water
• It is well clear of surrounding and overhanging objects
• The antenna is vercal
In extreme sea condions, you should not oat the
EPIRB free of the vessel or the life ra if there is the possibility of loss or damage to
the EPIRB.
By observing the following guidelines sasfactory operaon should sll be
achieved when operang the EPIRB out of water.
•
The EPIRB signal
will not pass through metal
but
will pass through breglass, wood or fabric with
some loss when wet.
•
The bracket of the EPIRB can be aached to
metal ngs, but the antenna must be vercal
and clear of the metal.
•
If the cabin is metallic (such as steel or aluminium), the EPIRB should be
mounted on a clear space
outside with the antenna vercal and clear of surrounding objects.
WARNING:
Switching a beacon on and o interferes with the satellites ability
to determine your locaon. Once acvated in an emergency allow the beacon to
operate without interrupon unl your rescue.
NOTE:
Normal operaon of your beacon will cease once baery capacity is
depleted. Special circuitry within the MT403/403G however directs any remaining
capacity towards extended operaon of the homing transmier. Although the
beacon may otherwise have appeared to cease funconing it is likely that a homing
signal is sll being emied.
TURNING THE EPIRB OFF
It is important that you turn the EPIRB o as soon as possible
aer being rescued
.
If you leave the EPIRB running when it is no longer needed it may make it dicult
for the satellites to detect other beacons that may be transming in the area.
1.
Remove beacon from the water.
2.
Li the switch cover (marked ‘
LIFT’
).
3.
Slide the yellow slider switch fully towards the ‘
READY’
posion.
4.
Close the cover to secure the switch.
5.
To cancel Water Acvaon dry the beacon or restow the beacon in the bracket.
It may take a number of seconds for the EPIRB to de-acvate.
6.
Check that both the strobe light and the ‘
beep’
have stopped.

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IN THE EVENT OF ACCIDENTAL ACTIVATION
If you suspect that an EPIRB has been acvated inadvertently, you MUST turn it o
and report it immediately to your Naonal Authority‘s Rescue Co-ordinaon Centre to
prevent an unnecessary search.
If at sea call your local VHF coast staon, or Rescue Co-ordinaon centre. In
internaonal waters contact a Marime Rescue Co-ordinaon Centre or Coast Radio
Staon (CRS) by any available means.
When reporng you should include the following:
1. Your EPIRB’s 15 character Unique Idener Number (UIN), which is marked on
the unit body.
2. Date, me and duraon of acvaon.
3. Cause of acvaon.
4. Locaon at me of acvaon.
Search and Rescue authories will not penalize an EPIRB owner or operator in cases
of genuine accidental acvaon.
BATTERIES AND MAINTENANCE
The MT403/403G is ed with the very latest in high capacity lithium baery
technology. These baeries are able to operate within a temperature range of -20°C
to +55°C.
The full operaonal capability of your beacon may not be available if the baeries
ed have exceeded their replacement date, as shown on the body of the unit. Prior
to reaching this date, make arrangements to have your EPIRB returned for service.
NOTE: The replacement of baeries due to expiry or usage is not covered by the
product‘s warranty. EPIRB maintenance operaons, including baery replacement,
require that the beacon be returned to a manufacturer approved service facility.
Although the MT403/403G is otherwise maintenance free, rounely following these
few simple steps will help ensure that your beacon will be operaonally ready if
called upon:
1. Test the EPIRB at the recommended interval.
2. Conrm the SAFETY SEAL has not been broken.
3. Check that the baeries have not passed their replacement date.
4. Inspect the MT403/403G and bracket for damage or deterioraon.
5. Keep the unit clean by wiping over with a damp cloth (warm water and mild
detergent are suitable), then dry. Do not use solvent-based cleaners.
6. Verify that the unit releases correctly from the bracket and is securely retained
when returned to it.
If there is any doubt as to the products’ serviceability, immediately contact your
authorised dealer or service centre for advice.