BEARING: You may display bearing relative to true North (true bearing) or relative to magnetic North (magnetic bearing).

MAG CALIB: The location of the magnetic pole is different from the geographical North pole. This causes a difference between the true and magnetic North direction. The difference is called mag- netic variation, and varies by the observation point on the earth. This unit is programmed with the earth’s magnetic variations. How- ever, you may wish to further refine variation for a particular area. If you enter compensation manually, be sure to change it when magnetic variation changes.

EVENT METHOD: Select mark to enter by the [EVENT MOB] key; mark or event mark.

POSITION: Select position display method; latitude and longi- tude or Loran LOPs.

DISP: If "POSITION" is selected to LOP, enter Loran or Decca chain here.

5.6 UNIT SETUP menu (unit of measurement)

The UNIT SETUP menu lets you select unit of measurement for distance. depth and water temperature.

Keying sequence: [MENU ESC] [0] [4]

UNIT SETUP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

km

sm

DISTANCE

nm

DEPTH

 

m

 

ft

fa

TEMP

 

 

 

 

°F

 

 

°C

 

▲▼ts:Cursor ESC:Esc

Figure 5-8 UNIT SETUP menu

UNIT SETUP menu description

DISTANCE: You may set the unit of distance measurement to nautical miles, kilometers, or statute miles.

DEPTH: The unit of depth measurement can be set to meters, feet, fathoms, hiro, or passi/braza.

TEMP: Select Centigrade or Fahrenheit.

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GP-1600F specifications

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