User Manual

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
INTRODUCTION TO GPSPlus 3
OPERATION OF GPSPlus 5
INTRODUCTION 6
SWITCHING ON 6
INITIAL DISPLAYS 6
USING THE LIGHTS KEY 7
NOTES ABOUT ENTERING DATA 7
USING THE POS KEY 8
USING WAYPOINTS 11
INTRODUCTION TO WAYPOINTS 11
MARK FEATURE - INSTANT WAYPOINTS 12
MARK WAYPOINT TABLE 13
MAN OVERBOARD (MOB) FACILITY 15
VIEWING THE WAYPOINT LIBRARY 16
ENTERING AND USING WAYPOINTS 16
WAYPOINT BY LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE 17
PRESENT POSITION AS A WAYPOINT 19
ENTERING A WAYPOINT NAME 20
COPYING FROM WAYPOINT TO WAYPOINT 21
SORTING THE WAYPOINT LIBRARY 22
WAYPOINT BY RANGE AND BEARING 23
ERASING A WAYPOINT FROM THE LIBRARY 24
OTHER WAYPOINT SETUPS 25
USING ROUTES 26
INTRODUCTION TO ROUTES 26
VIEWING THE ROUTE LIBRARY 26
DIAGRAM OF A SIMPLE ROUTE 27
LISTING A STORED ROUTE 27
ROUTE PLANNING PAGE 28
DEFINING A ROUTE 29
EDITING A STORED ROUTE 31
OTHER ROUTE SETUPS 32
NAVIGATION WITH GPSPlus 33
INTRODUCTION TO NAVIGATION 33
SELECTING A WAYPOINT OR ROUTE 34
DISPLAYING THE NAV PAGES 35
CHANGING THE CURRENT LEG OF A ROUTE 38
SETTING UP THE GPSPlus 39
INTRODUCTION TO SETUPS 39
SELECTING THE RECEIVER INPUT TYPE 40
WAYPOINT ARRIVAL ALARM 40
AUTO ADVANCE RADIUS 41
ANCHOR ALARM 42
HDOP ALARM 43
CROSS TRACK ERROR ALARM 45
WAYPOINT ZONE ALARM 46
NETWORK SYSTEM ALARMS 47
SETTING THE CHART DATUM 48
SETTING A USER DATUM 48
SELECTING NMEA OUTPUT SENTENCES 49
NMEA CHECKSUMS 49