Listen, speak along and compare
Read the task, say the message aloud yourself first, then play the recording and compare. The written model under each recording shows the structure you need in the exam.
Your vessel: sailing yacht Athene, callsign DMJK, MMSI 211444330. Fire on board in position 54°54'N 011°10'E, close to the Fehmarnbelt racon buoy. Blue hull and white superstructure, five persons on board. You will abandon to the liferaft in 10 minutes.
DSC: First send a DSC distress alert (designated: fire, explosion). Then the voice call on Channel 16, high power.
Your vessel: Concordia, callsign DF3434, MMSI 211007200. Acknowledge the distress message from Athene and offer assistance in 30 minutes. You are 5 NM away from the vessel in distress.
DSC: No DSC call. Give the Coastguard a chance to acknowledge first. Acknowledge by voice on Channel 16 only if you can help.
Your vessel: Peruvian, callsign DF6414, MMSI 211007200. At 1650 UTC you received the distress message from Athene. You hear no further distress traffic from the Coastguard or other vessels and you cannot help Athene yourself. Relay the distress message.
DSC: No DSC call. Wait five minutes, send 'Received Mayday' to the casualty, then relay by voice on Channel 16, high power.
Your vessel: Concordia, callsign DF3434, MMSI 211007200, is controlling the distress traffic. Two unknown stations are interfering. Impose radio silence.
DSC: No DSC call. If you know the interfering station, address it by name instead of All Stations.
Your vessel: Concordia, callsign DF3434, MMSI 211007200. Everybody on board the vessel in distress, Athene, has been rescued. At 1346 UTC radio silence on Channel 16 is no longer necessary.
DSC: No DSC call. Only the station controlling the distress traffic (normally the Coastguard) ends it.
The vessel Priwall, callsign DC9954, lost a person overboard in a heavy gale and sent a distress alert. Ten minutes later, at 1332 UTC, Priwall recovered the person without help from other vessels.
DSC: No DSC call. Make sure the Coastguard knows that the person has been recovered.
Your vessel: Reindeer, callsign DF3434, MMSI 211444210. A crew member pressed the red button on the DSC controller and sent a distress alert at 1246 UTC. Cancel the false alert.
DSC: First stop the alert: use the cancel function of the set or switch it off and on again. Then cancel by voice on Channel 16.
Your vessel: Caledonia, callsign DV2040, MMSI 211000661. Position 3 NM north of light buoy DB5. Your rudder is broken and you need a tug.
DSC: First a DSC urgency announcement to All Ships (working channel 16), then the voice call on Channel 16.
Your vessel: Camertonian, callsign DF3434, MMSI 218453000. In position 54°10'N 007°55'E you see a red drifting container. Send a navigational warning.
DSC: DSC safety announcement to All Ships with a working channel. Announce on Channel 16, then pass the message on the working channel. Preferably report the hazard to the Coastguard, which then broadcasts it.
Glentanner, callsign DZZP, MMSI 218445001, needs a berth in Ullapool harbour.
DSC: Call on the harbour's port operations channel shown in the almanac, low power.