📄 Digital book in PDF · read it on your phone or print it
For the UK Short Range Certificate: the MAYDAY call line by line, the DSC distress alert step by step, channels 16 and 70, the phonetic alphabet, PAN PAN and SECURITE. Every topic has its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 65 illustrated pages.
🔒 Secure checkout · PDF by email · 30-day guarantee
Every page has one large drawing and a box with the channels, the call order or the steps you need to know:
Swipe to see more →
These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 8 parts and 61 topics.
It's course day. The instructor hands you the set: "Fire in the engine room. Send the DSC alert, then the MAYDAY." You know the words. The order won't come.
The handbook gave you the MAYDAY as a paragraph and the DSC alert as a list of menu steps. Text read in a hurry doesn't hold up with a handset in your hand.
In the book, the MAYDAY is drawn line by line with a worked example underneath, and the DSC distress alert is 6 boxes in order. You see the sequence, not just the words.
The same goes for saying numbers on the radio, prowords, OVER and OUT, giving your position and the routine call: each one has its own page.
So when the instructor gives you the scenario, the order comes without a pause, and you don't need to go back to the handbook to check.
Licences and your radio, channels, voice procedure, DSC, MAYDAY, PAN PAN and SECURITE, GMDSS equipment and course-day revision: 65 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
You're two miles off the headland, the engine has died and the tide is setting you towards the rocks. MAYDAY or PAN PAN?
You've revised the page and printed it for the chart table: grave and imminent danger on one side, urgent but not yet on the other. Drifting onto rocks is the first; drifting in open water with no danger yet is the second, with the script for each one underneath.
The same with the DSC alert, channel 70, sea areas A1 to A4, NAVTEX and the SART: each one on its own page.
SRC Marine Radio Illustrated is 65 illustrated pages in 8 parts, one topic per page, with a course-day revision section at the end.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
The Ship Radio Licence and the SRC, your MMSI, call sign, every control on the fixed set, squelch, 25 W and 1 W, handhelds and GPS.
Line of sight, channel 16, channel 70, simplex and duplex, intership channels, UK marina channels, channel 67 and dual watch.
The phonetic alphabet, numbers, prowords, OVER and OUT, the routine call, giving your position, radio checks and the rules on air.
What DSC does, the four categories, individual and all-ships calls, reading the screen, the distress alert, acknowledgement and the test call.
Send a MAYDAY without losing the order: when it applies, the call line by line, MIPDANIO, a worked example, DSC first, acknowledging, MAYDAY RELAY, radio silence and cancelling a false alert.
PAN PAN and when to use it, the call line by line, PAN PAN MEDICO, SECURITE, Maritime Safety Information and priority on air.
GMDSS sea areas, NAVTEX and its message header, EPIRB, PLB, SART, AIS Class A and B, and the checks before you sail.
The three calls on one page, a channel cheat sheet, the DSC distress sequence in 6 boxes, the practical assessment, frequent mistakes and your boat's radio card.
At the end of the book: A course-day revision part: the three calls on one page, a channel cheat sheet, the DSC distress sequence in 6 boxes and your boat's radio card.
Test yourself with exam-style questions on channels, DSC and distress procedure, with every answer explained, so you know what you know before course day.
See the wrong call and the right call side by side, from the missing MMSI to the cancelled alert sent the wrong way, so you don't repeat them on the radio.
📄 This is a digital PDF book sent to your email: nothing is printed or shipped.
PDF by email: We email you SRC Marine Radio Illustrated as a PDF, together with the two free books. It's a single payment: no installments, no extra charges.
Each topic on its own page, drawn, so the theory makes sense the first time you see it instead of the third time you read it.
The three calls on one page and the DSC sequence in boxes: a quick run-through the night before, in the same order every time.
Print the pages you need and keep them by the chart table, so the MAYDAY order is there at a glance.
📄 This is a digital PDF book sent to your email: nothing is printed or shipped.
Try SRC Marine Radio Illustrated for 30 days, bonus books included.
We refund everything if the file won't open, if the book isn't what you see here, if you were charged twice or if the email doesn't arrive. Just email us.
You pay once. No subscriptions.
Yes. It's written for adults sitting the UK Short Range Certificate. The radio is drawn as a typical fixed VHF/DSC set with every control labelled. The procedure, the channels and the call order are the same whatever brand you have; menu names and button positions vary, so check your set's manual for those.
It's checked against current UK guidance: the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MGN 324), Ofcom ship radio licensing and MMSI guidance, and the ITU Radio Regulations and GMDSS procedures behind the SRC syllabus. UK channels and UK procedure, not American ones.
No. It's an independent illustrated study book. It isn't produced or endorsed by the RYA, the MCA, Ofcom or any training centre.
No. To get the SRC you still take the course and the assessment at a recognised training centre. If you already have the handbook and an online course, this doesn't repeat them in more words: it draws them. The MAYDAY line by line, the DSC alert in 6 boxes and the three calls on one page, so you can revise in minutes and print what you want by the chart table.
No. They're written for this book, in the style of the topics covered, so you can check what you know before course day.
The book and the 2 bonus books arrive as PDFs by email, at the address you enter when you pay. You can read them on any device or print them.
No. It's a one-off payment. No subscription.
Yes. It's a PDF you can print at home or at a print shop, and keep the pages you need by the chart table.
You have 30 days. We refund everything if the file won't open, if the book isn't what you see on this page, if you were charged twice or if the email doesn't arrive: just email us.
No more rereading without anything sticking.
The MAYDAY order is drawn: see it once and it's clear.
You arrive on course day knowing where everything is.
Drawings make studying faster.
The book is right below.
One-time payment: US$ 27 · Guarantee: 30 days · PDF by email
YES, I WANT SRC MARINE RADIO ILLUSTRATED FOR US$ 27📄 This is a digital PDF book sent to your email: nothing is printed or shipped.
