Activating Alarms; Setting Arrival Radius; Setting Anchor Alarm - Magellan NAV 6500 User Manual

Activating Alarms

The internal/external alarm can be turned on/off. Turning
the Alarm Activated off does not clear the values set for Ar-
rival Radius, Anchor Alarm and XTE Alarm from memory.
They are retained and shown again when Alarm Activated is
on again.
Beeper activation is independent from the alarm.
Press the Aux softkey, use the CURSOR KEY
to highlight CDI/Units/Alarms and press EN-
TER. Use the CURSOR KEY to highlight
Alarm Activated and press ENTER.
Use the CURSOR KEY to select on or off and press EN-
TER. Press ESC to exit.
Default setting: ON

Setting Arrival Radius

If the alarm is on, it will sound when the boat comes within a
certain distance of the destination waypoint(s) of the route.
The arrival radius can be set between 0.01 and 9.99 distance
units.
Magellan NAV 6500/NAV 6510
Press the Aux softkey, use the CUR-
SOR KEY to highlight CDI/Units/
Alarm and press ENTER. Use the
CURSOR KEY to highlight Arrival
Radius and press ENTER.
Use the CURSOR KEY to select desired radius and press
ENTER. Press ESC to exit.
Default setting: OFF

Setting Anchor Alarm

OFF
While the unit is computing position fixes, the alarm will
ON
sound when the boat has moved more than a certain distance
from the position where the alarm was activated. The anchor
radius can be set between 0.01 and 9.99 distance units.
Press the Aux softkey, use the CUR-
SOR KEY to highlight CDI/Units/
Alarms and press ENTER, highlight
Anchor Alarm using the CURSOR
KEY, press ENTER.
Use the CURSOR KEY to select desired radius and press EN-
TER. Press ESC to exit.
Default setting: OFF
Arrival Radius
OFF
Anchor Alarm
OFF
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