PANEL NAME: DISTRESS BEACON SYSTEM

FUNCTION OVERVIEW: This panel serves two purposes, receiving up to five subspace distress signals and five space-normal signals, and launching distress beacons.

Load  -  Press to begin information loading into distress beacon. The illuminated displays show loading status. It takes 16 seconds to saturate the core memory of a standard distress beacon.

Launch  -  Press to launch the distress beacon. It takes three seconds to launch a distress beacon under ideal conditions.

SOS  -  Indicates an incoming distress signal.

Subspace/EM Band  -  Sliding selectors assign distress signal bandwidth isolation to aid tracking and navigation.

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE: See MCX-19990-230.