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Turn the Power On, FURUNO GP-1670F Press to turn the power ON. ※ This figure is quoted from “FURUNO GPS PLOTTER/SOUNDER GP1670F, GP1870F OPERTOR’S MANUAL” of product GP-1670F of Furuno Electric Co., Ltd. Menu Operation This section shows how to operate the menu. There are eight menus, [General], [Map], [Plotter], [Alarms], [System], [Fish Finder], [Instruments] and [Interface].
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[RANGES]: The default range settings are suitable for most applications. However, the ranges can be customized to suit one’s needs, i.e. [RANGE 1] - [RANGE 8]. Set the ranges in descending order. Make sure that each range is lower than its preceding range. Select a display range Range can be selected automatically or manually.
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How to adjust the gain Since the gain controls how echoes of different strengths are displayed, set the gain to show a slight amount of noise on the screen. Increase the gain for greater depths and lower the gain for shallow waters. CAUTION Adjust gain...
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DATA COLLECTION OPERATION PROCEDURE 1) Turn on FURUNO GP-1670F Select the Range at 20 m. 2) Turn on Computer with Windows 7 3) Start PicoScope 6 4) Start FishFinder V.3.6 When FishFinder program is running, a window on monitor screen will display an echogram...
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5) Start Hyper Terminal: (GPS – Hyper Terminal) When Hyper Terminal program is running, a window on monitor screen will display echo sounder information in various format of terminal information.
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6) Echo sounder data collection Move mouse cursor into the echogram window and use right bottom mouse click for data collection drop down menu. Select “Collecting Start” button, left bottom mouse click. The echo sounder data will automatically create new data recorded file using current date and time as file name on Desktop folder.
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To stop data recording, select “Transfer”, Capture Text” and “Stop” ECHO SOUNDER DATA ANALYSIS PROCEDURE The Echo Sounder Data Collection System (AQFI-1301) was designed to display echogram (Figure 17) and data recorded digital echo signal (50 kHz) into PC screen and hard disc. The Echo Sounder Data Collection System was set up at fixed sampling rate of 0.0512 msec with total 800 sampling echo data of digital value echo-signal recorded into the PC hard disc for each transmitting ping.
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