Radar Antenna (Usa Only); Personal Computer Connections; Nmea Data Page - Standard Horizon CPF180i Owner's Manual

2.8

RADAR ANTENNA (USA ONLY)

Please refer to Par. "1.3 Radar Unit supplied by SI-TEX USA". The Radar antenna includes the
necessary electronics to deliver Radar information to a compatible STANDARD HORIZON
GPS Chart Plotter, and is supplied with mounting hardware kit, interconnection cable and
a Radar Junction Box.
Please refer to the Radar Installation Manual and Radar Operation Manual available at
www.standardhorizon.com.
2.9

PERSONAL COMPUTER CONNECTIONS

The GPS Chart Plotter can be connected to output Marks and Routes to many available PC
programs. To send or receive User Points the PC Program must be able to receive NMEA
WPL and RTE sentences. Refer to the table below for connection to a Serial DB9 connector.
Pin PC DB9 connection
2 Receive
3 Transmit
5 Signal ground
By default Port1 is set to receive or send User Points to and from a PC. The GPS Chart
Plotter may be set up to send and receive the User Points on a different Port using the
following procedure:
1. Press [MENU], move the ShuttlePoint knob to highlight SETUP MENU and press [ENT].
2. Move the ShuttlePoint knob to highlight ADVANCED SETUP and press [ENT] or move
the ShuttlePoint knob to the right.
3. Move the ShuttlePoint knob to highlight IN/OUT CONNECTIONS and press [ENT] or
move the ShuttlePoint knob to the right.
4. Move the ShuttlePoint knob to highlight SEND/REC RTE & MARKS and press [ENT]
or move the ShuttlePoint knob to the right to show the popup window.
5. Move the ShuttlePoint knob to desired Port and press [ENT].
The PC COM settings are:
· Baud Rate
· Parity
· Data Bits
· Stop Bits
· Flow Control : None
The format of the sentences that are sent:
· MARK
· WAYPOINT $GPWPL,3933.008,N,00639.969,E,WPT012*22
· ROUTE
2.10

NMEA DATA PAGE

The NMEA Data page is very useful to see if an external device (example: Depth Sounder)
is transmitting NMEA sentences to the GPS Chart Plotter. This page can also be used to
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Port 1 connection
Brown
Blue
Green
: 4800
: None
: 8
: 1
$GPWPL,3249.061,N,00710.651,E,MRK002*22
$GPWPL,2544.362,N,08011.672,W,WPT003*32
$GPWPL,2543.921,N,08011.481,W,WPT004*31
$GPWPL,2543.493,N,08011.768,W,WPT005*37
$GPRTE,2,1,c,ROUTE01,WPT003,WPT004,WPT005*21
CPF180i and CPF300i