5
GPS OPERATION
Checking your position
D GPS POSITION screens and their
meanings
Information
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• Pushing [QUICK] to change the compass direction.
(p. 5-9)
• About the Course (p. 5-8)
• About the Grid Locator (p. 5-8)
MY screen (Your position information)
When GPS Select is set to "Manual," compass heading and course direction are not displayed. (p. 11-9)
Compass direction
top is North.
↓
Your course
→
heading is
East.
RX screen (Callerʼs position information)
Depending on the callerʼs GPS TX Mode and TX format, displayed itemʼs meanings differ, and some data may not
be displayed. (p. 5-7)
Example: The caller stationʼs GPS TX Mode is "D-PRS" and its TX format is "Position (Mobile)."
Direction
→
from your
position
Caller's call sign with SSID
MEM screen (GPS Memory channel's information)
ALM screen (GPS Alarm Memory channel's information)
*
1
When a name is not entered in the GPS Memory
channel, date and time are displayed instead of the
name.
*
2
In the Quick Menu window, you can change the
GPS Memory or GPS Alarm in the GPS POSITION
screen. (p. 5-8)
←Latitude
←Longitude
←Altitude
↑
Received time
← Distance
from your
↑
position
Example for the GPS POSITION screens:
Your station
Course: 90 degrees
Speed: 1.4 mph
D-PRS symbol
Time the caller acquired
the position data
Direction from
→
your position
Direction from
→
your position
5-6
GPS Memory:
Tokyo Skytree
251 ml
GPS Alarm:
249 ml
Tokyo Big Sight
0.1 ml
Caller station
(D-PRS: mobile)
Course: 247 degrees
Speed: 2.3 mph
←Course direction
←Speed
← Callerʼs Course
direction
↑
← Distance from
↑
*
1
← Distance from
↑
*
2
your position
your position