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Furuno GD-188 User Manual (202 pages)

Color GPS and color video plotter

Brand: Furuno | Category: Plotter | Size: 5.47 MB

Safety Information
4
Table of Contents
5
Introduction
9
Features
10
Typographic Conventions
12
Operational Overview
13
The System
14
System Configuration
14
Display Unit
14
Keyboard
14
Floppy Disk Drive and Floppy Disks
15
Keyboard Response
15
Data Entry Rules
15
Care and Handling of Floppy Disks
15
Memory Card Drive and Memory Card
16
Care and Handling of Memory Cards
16
The Remote Control Unit
16
Tutorial
18
Inserting a Chart Card
18
Ejecting a Chart Card
18
Turning the Power on and off
19
Changing Chart Scale
20
Shifting the Display
20
Location of Chart Scale Indications
20
Shifting the Cursor
21
Location of Cursor Position Information
21
Changing Track Color
22
Suspending/Resuming Recording of Track
22
Changing Track Plotting Interval
23
How the Track Is Drawn
23
Processing Marks
24
Changing Mark Color
25
Erasing a Mark
25
Processing Lines
26
Entering a Line
26
Changing Line Color
26
Attaching a Comment to a Mark or Line
27
Erasing a Line
27
Characters Available for Comment
27
Entering a Waypoint
28
Setting/Cancelling a Destination Waypoint
30
Function Keys
31
What Are the Function Keys?
31
How to Read the Plotter Display
32
Your Ship's Position
32
GPS Related Indications
32
Indications
33
Plotter Display Indications
33
Electronic Chart Cards
35
ROM Cards
35
Displaying a Chart
35
Types of Chart Cards
35
On Enlarging a Chart
36
Chart Status
36
Chart-Related Icons
36
Turning Graphic Displays on or off
37
Selecting Display Orientation Mode
39
Types of Orientation Modes
39
Displaying the Navigation Data Display
40
Returning to Plotter Display
40
Changing Headline
40
Changing Navaid Display
40
The Cursors
41
Types of Cursor
41
Enabling or Disabling Cursors
41
Selecting a Cursor
41
Confirming Data
42
Ship's Position Display
43
Loran C Lops
43
Decca Lops
43
Loran a Lops
44
Latitude and Longitude
44
Track
45
Track Fundamentals
46
Two Sets of Tracks
46
Default Main Track Attributes
46
Turning Main Track On/Off
47
Turning Sub Track On/Off
47
Selecting Navald for Sub Track
48
Turning Navaid Back up on or off
48
Recording the Sub Track
48
Track Color
49
Manual Change
49
Automatic Change
49
Changing Track Color by Water Temperature
49
Changing Track Color by Water Depth
52
Setting Track Plotting Interval
54
By Distance
54
By Time
54
Smoothing
55
Suspending/Resuming Recording of the Track
57
Displaying Track Not Recorded
58
Changing Track Attributes
59
Color of Past Track
59
Line Type of Past Track
60
Displaying/Restoring Specific Track
61
How to Display Specific Track
61
Restoring Temporarily Erased Track
62
Erasing Track
63
Marks
65
Mark Fundamentals
66
Use of Marks
66
Types and Colors of Marks
66
Entering Marks
67
By Latitude and Longitude
67
By Loran C Lops
67
Connecting Marks with Lines
69
The Target Point Mark
70
Storage Capacity
70
Entering a Target Point Mark
70
Erasing a Target Point Mark
70
Erasing Marks Collectively
71
Changing Mark Attributes
72
Displaying the Comment List
73
Displaying/Restoring Specific Marks
74
How to Display Specific Marks
74
Restoring Temporarily Erased Marks
75
Auxiliary Marks
76
Time Marks
77
Water Temperature or Depth
77
Course Vector
77
Fish Marks
77
Changing Mark Pattern
78
Radar Target Mark
79
Lines
80
Line Fundamentals
81
Line Attributes
81
Comment for Lines
81
Methods of Line Entry
81
Entering Lines
82
Changing Line Attributes
86
Displaying/Restoring Specific Lines
88
Restoring Temporarily Erased Lines
89
Waypoints and Routes
90
Waypoint Fundaments
91
Waypoint Storage Capacity
91
Special Waypoints
91
Appearance of a Waypoint
91
Entering Waypoints
92
By Cursor
92
Changing Waypoint Page
96
Displaying the Waypoint List
97
What Is the Waypoint List?
97
Changing Waypoint Color
98
Waypoint Number
98
Hiding Specific Waypoints
99
Showing Specific Waypoints
99
Erasing Waypoints through the Waypoint List
100
Replacing/Deleting Route
107
Displaying the Route List
108
Calculating Range and Bearing between Two Points
109
Alarms
110
Alarm Fundamentals
111
Types of Alarms
111
When an Alarm Setting Is Exceeded
111
Arrival and Anchor Watch Alarms
112
Setting the Arrival Alarm
113
Setting the Anchor Watch Alarm
113
XTE and Border Alarms
114
XTE Alarm
114
Setting the XTE Alarm
115
Alarm Range Shown on Display
115
Setting the Borded Alarm
115
Target Proximity Alarm
116
Water Temperature Alarm
117
Current Rip Alarm
118
Water Depth Alarm
119
Current Alarm
120
Ship's Speed Alarm
121
Wake up Alarm
122
Timer Alarm
122
Confirming the Alarm Type
123
Recording and Replaying Data
124
Data Recording and Memories
125
Memory Configuration
125
Formatting a Floppy Disk, Memory Card
126
What Is Formatting?
126
Recording Data
127
Recording Data to a New Line
127
Recording Data to an Existing File
128
Replaying Data
130
Replaying Fundamentals
130
Copying Data
131
Copying Fundamentals
131
Recording/Replaying Data by Data Logger
132
Stopping Replaying
133
Displaying a Floppy Disk Chart
134
Recording/Replaying User Data
135
User Data and Memory Clear
135
Confirming Free Memory Space on a Medium
136
Deleting a File
137
Customizing Your Unit
138
Changing Text Attributes
139
Text Size and Picture Configuration
139
Programming the Function Keys
142
Keys Used in Programming
142
How to Program
142
Programming Other Keys
145
Changing Color of Markers
149
Own Ship Mark
149
Changing Units of Measurement
150
Distance
150
Water Temperature
150
Chart Scale
151
Changing Chart Scale Format
151
Apportioning the Memory
152
Changing Chart Attributes
154
Land Color
154
Land Pattern
154
Place-Name Indication
154
Miscellaneous Functions
155
Centering of Own Ship Mark
155
Changing Grid Format
155
Automatic Chart Scale Selection
156
Event Mark on Sub Track
156
Changing Keyboard Response Volume
156
Enabling/Disabling the Trackball
156
Setting the Bearing Display
157
Magnetic Bearing
157
True Bearing
157
Offsetting Chart Position
158
Setting by Trackball
158
Setting by Lat/Long
158
Offsetting File Position
159
Manual Offset
159
Auto Offset
159
Water Temperature and Depth Graphs
160
Setting the Water Temperature Graph
160
Setting up the Depth Graph
161
Maintenance and Troubleshooting
162
Routine Maintenance
163
Replacing the Fuse
163
Demagnetizing the Display
164
Troubleshooting Tables
165
Self-Tests
167
Memory & I/O Test
167
Keyboard Test
168
Remote Control Unit
168
Color Test
169
Clearing the Memories
170
Specific Memory
170
All Memories
170
Option Program
170
GPS Data
171
Default GPS Settings
171
GPS Receiver Operation
172
GPS Description
173
What Is GPS?
173
Position-Fixing Accuracy
174
Almanac
174
The GPS Data Display
175
Reading the GPS Data Display
176
System Settings
178
GPS Settings Menu
178
Entering Estimated Position
178
Entering Time Difference
179
Entering Antenna Height
179
Entering Geodetic Chart System
179
Entering Position Offset
179
Setting Position Fixing Criteria
180
Position Smoothing
180
Speed Smoothing
181
Enabling/Disabling Satellites
182
Disabling Healthy Satellite
182
Enabling Unhealthy Satellite
182
Restoring Satellite to Schedule
182
Cold Starting the GPS Receiver
183
What Happens in Cold Start
183
Specifications
185
Control Description
187
Menu Tree
188
Time Differences
192
Geodetic Chart Systems
193
Loran C/A Chains
194
Decca Chains
195
Index
196

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