User's Manual

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3.4 General Radar Operation
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3.4.8 Display Radar Trails [TRAILS]
Ship's movements and speeds can be monitored from the lengths and directions of their trails, serving
for collision avoidance. The trail length varies according to setting.
Changing the length of the trail
Procedures 1 Press the [TRAILS] key.
Values of the length of the radar trail are switched.
Trails length setting: Short mode
Off ⇒ 15sec ⇒ 30sec ⇒ 1min ⇒ 3min ⇒ 6min ⇒
⇒ 10min ⇒ 15min ⇒ Off
Short: : 15 sec, 30 sec, 1 min, 3 min, 6 min, 10 min, and 15 min
Middle: : 30 sec, 1 min, 3 min, 6 min, 10 min, 15 min, and 30 min
Long: : 1 min, 3 min, 6 min, 10 min, 15 min, 30 min, and 1 hr
Super Long : 30 min, 1 hr, 2 hr, 3 hr, 4 hr, 5 hr, 6 hr, 7 hr, 8 hr, 9 hr, 10 hr, 11 hr,
and 12 hr
Saved trails cannot be erased even when the trail lengths are changed by using
[TRAILS] key. Even after the trails display is turned off, the past trails can be
displayed traced back by setting a desired time.
The radar system is start transmission, trails is start plot.
The system is plotting trails even while the trails display is off.
If the transmit time is short, the indicated trails duration may not have achieved the
specified time. The radar trails remaining time is indicated at the right of the trails
length setting.
Erasing Trails Data
Procedures 1 Press the [TRAILS] key for 5 seconds.
All the saved trails data will be erased. The system starts plotting trails in initial
state.
If [TRAILS] key is pressed for 2 seconds, the RADAR Trails Setting menu is opened.
Furthermore, data will be erased if it continues pressing.