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light the Send All softkey then press ENT from the NMEA
WPL screen.
The WPL record, as defined by the NMEA 0183 standard,
technically does not allow the output of waypoint descrip-
tions when interfacing to other devices such as Chart Plotters.
However, BNT-ME realizes that with 2000 waypoints, you have
spent a lot of time preparing your library of waypoints with
definitions and symbols. You probably will want to record these
to a PC, just in case the memory in the receiver fails in the
future. For this reason, we have provided you the option to
Include Waypoint Names in the WPL record to save your
waypoints to a PC or to meet the NMEA 0183 standard for
interfacing to other marine equipment. The definition of the
differences between these two formats is given in the WPT
section of this manual and in the NMEA 0183 format section in
the Appendix F of this manual.
Configuration
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