Color Scanning Sonar
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Safety Instructions
Do not use the equipment for other than its intended purpose
Table of Contents
Vertical Scanning Display
Self Tests
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Foreword
Features
Word to CSH-23F/24F Owners
Standard Option
System Configuration
Control Description
Control Layout on Display Unit and Remote Control Box
Main panel control description
Main Panel
Gain
NORM, E/S, Hist
RECALL, Memo
Range
Control Function
Sub Panel
Sub Panel 2 data setting window
2AGC
Signal
AGC
Process
Sonrbeam
Alarm
Sonar
UP/TM
+ +
Remote Control Box
Lowering the Transducer
Turning the Power On/Off
Adjusting Screen Brilliance, Control Panel Backlighting
Operational Overview
Mode
Selecting a Display Mode
Description
Selecting a Display Range
Setting the Tilt Angle
Seabed echo and tilt angle
Points to consider
How to discriminate fish echoes from the seabed
Tilt angle and sea surface reflections
Tilt angle for surface fish
Tilt angle and beam coverage
Suitable tilt angle
Measuring Range and Bearing to a Target
Adjusting the Gain
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How to adjust TVG
Fine Tuning the Picture
Eliminating Unwanted Feeble Echoes
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Suppressing Seabed Tail
AGC data setting window SIGNAL, Signal
Pulselength data setting window TVGTX, PL
2AGC data setting window SIGNAL, Signal Process
Rejecting Sonar Interference and Noise
Data setting window TVGTX, Output
Identifying noise source
Cycle
Changing Tx cycle data setting window Tvgtx
Menu Application
Adjusting Beamwidth
Setting F-shift data setting window Sonrbeam
Noise limiter data setting window SIGNAL, Signal
Normal display mode
Marks, Data and Display Mode
Marks and Data
Echo sounder combination display
Normal display mode w/text
History display
Permanently Displayed Marks and Data
Mark/Data Description
Erasable Marks and Data
Bearing marker
Mark Description
Range R Auto Tilt Auto Scan Gain Brill TVG TVG DIM
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Menu Overview
Menu How to open
User Menu Operation
User Menu Hist DSP/GRPH
Menu screen location and display mode
Menu Menu Item Description
User Menu Description
Save Picture
Current VEC
FAR TVG
System Menu Description
TM DSP
Data Display
BRG Readout
Mark Size
Interlock
Defaults
ES/NET REC
Hist Display
Color Curve
Data SET Menu Description
Change Color
NET Plot Corr
NET Shoot
Plan
NET Sonde
Init SET/TEST Menu Description
Echo Test
Menu Description
Programming the Function Keys
Function Keys
Replaying a Function Key
Function Key Fine Tuning
Replaying Function Key Settings from a Memory Card
Saving Function Key Settings to a Memory Card
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Finding Fish School Center
Advanced Level Operation
Tracking a fish school
Tracking a Fish School target lock
Target lock mark appearance
Choosing target lock mode
Erasing target lock mark
Target lock and tilt angle
Tracking target lock mark
System Menu Target Lock
Setting target lock conditions
Description of target lock items
Detecting Fish Schools Aurally
How to set the fish alarm zone
Fish Alarm
Relocating Fish School for Easy Observation
How to relocate fish schools
Estimate marks and their data
Comparing of Fish School Concentration
Measuring Fish School Speed
How to measure fish speed
10 Event marks
Event Mark
Erasing an event mark
Entering an event mark
12 True motion display
True Motion Display
13 Net location mark
Plotting Net Location Mark
14 Net behavior
Observing Net Behavior
No. Display Information Applications
Target Slice Display
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Vertical Scanning Display
Using Vertical Scanning Display
Display Indications
Application to Bonito and Tuna Fishing
Searching
Approaching
Tracking
Catching
Catching
Port/Starboard display
PORT/STARBOARD, Horizontal Slice Displays
Horizontal slice display
Horizontal slice display
Initializing Memory Cards
Memory Card Operations
Transferring Echo Data from Internal Memory to Memory Card
Saving the Picture
Data to Save Saving Method Saving to
Transferring net shooting data to memory card
Net shooting data contents
Saving Net Shooting Data
How net shooting data is saved
Replaying Saved Data
Deleting Memory Card Contents
Turning MARKS, Data ON/OFF
Turning marks on/off through the data setting window
Turning marks on/off through the user menu
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Seabed Echoes
Interpreting the Display
Midwater, bottom fish Tilt angle 30 or more
Fish Schools
Wake
Sea Surface Reflections
Noise and Interference
False Echo by Sidelobe
Unretracted Transducer Warning
Overvoltage Warning
How to manually raise the transducer
Opening the Self Test Menu
Self Tests
Single test
Self Test Description
Continuous test
Color test
Panel test
SIO test
Gray test
Interface unit CS-120A, cover opened
Interface Unit CS-120A Self Test
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Selection of Data at Interface Unit CS-120A
Input Data Selection
How to set net sonde transmitter distances
Setting Distances Between Net Sonde Transmitters
Display Unit Maintenance
Maintenance
Zinc block near the transducer must be replaced yearly
Hull Unit Maintenance
User Menu
Menu Tree
Data SET Menu
Init SET/TEST Menu
System Menu
Previous
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SP-1
Specifications
SP-2
Display
SP-3
Hull Unit
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12-2
Index
IN-2
CARD UTILITY
CARD ECHO DAT
CARD NET DATA
FUNCTION KEY
DATA DISPLAY
MARK DSP 1
MARK DSP 2
HIST DSP/GRPH
CURRENT VEC
SAVE PICTURE
Save
Delete
Initialize
Register
Event Mark 1
Event Mark 2
Fish Mark
On Track Data
Text Window
ES Window
Range/Bearing
Heading Mark
Range Rings
Bearing Scale
Auto Scan Width
Ship's Track
Net Movement Plot
Fish MK Connect
Fish Tracking MK
Fish Track Plot
Hist Window Dsp 
Fish Histogram
w/Current Vec
w/Current Vec
w/Current Vec 
Current Flow Dir
Save Method