Pop-Up Help; Position Pinning - Lowrance M52 S/GPS Installation And Operation Instructions Manual

Pop-up Help

Help is available for virtually all of the menu labels on this unit. By
highlighting a menu item and leaving it highlighted for a few seconds, a
"pop-up" message appears that describes the function of the menu item.
This feature is on by default.
To set up Popup Help: Press
| |↓ to | |↓
MENU MENU S S ENT
YSTEM ETUP
to . With the option highlighted, press to check it (turn
P H ENT
OPUP ELP
on) and uncheck it (turn off). After the option is set, press to re-
EXIT
turn to the page display.
System Setup Menu, left, with Pop-up Help command highlighted. At
right, this example shows the Pop-up Help message for the Sensitivity
command, located on the Sonar Menu.

Position Pinning

When you are standing still or moving at extremely slow speed, a GPS
receiver can have trouble determining the direction you are traveling.
In the past, this resulted in a "wandering" plot trail that moved around
the plotter, even if you were standing still.
The Position Pinning feature was developed so that when you stopped,
the unit locked the present position on the GPS plotter until you moved
a short distance or exceeded a very slow speed.
The command remains available in the unit's software, but we recom-
mend that you leave it in the default off (unchecked) mode. The "wan-
dering" plot trail issue has now been corrected by the Track Smoothing
feature. Turning on Position Pinning could actually result in an inaccu-
rate plot trail if you are moving around in a relatively small area. If you
want to experiment with Position Pinning, the same instructions are
used to turn the feature on (checked) and off (unchecked.)
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