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DSC alarm went off over the weekend

This was only the second time in three years my radio picked one up. Pretty impressive alarm sound and then my radio automatically switched to a page of options among which was "acknowledge". I decided to wait to see if the CG responded before doing an acknowledge. I waited about 3-5 minutes --radio silence. I then scrolled to the menu page which keeps a log of the time, position, nature of the alert and MSSI number. Everything was blank but the MSSI and time. I was ready to transmit when the CG finally issued a call that the alarm was determined to be a false alarm. I have a hunch this was coming from Delaware even though I am in NY because all day I was getting CG Delaware Bay on Ch16

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