Furuno GP-1650DF Steering Display, Beacon information display, How to read the compass display

Beacon information display

Equipped with a DGPS beacon receiver, your unit can show DGPS reference station infor- mation. Press the soft key BEACON INFO to show the DGPS reference station informa- tion.

DGPS reference station information

Receive data status

Beacon receiver setting status

		BEACON
MODE		INFO
	AUTO SEARCH
FREQ	288.0kHz
BAUD	200 BPS
RATE
RECEIVED DATA:		OK
BEACON STATION:		OK
SS		75
SN		19
DGPS 3D		RETURN

Signal strength (SS),

Signal to noise ratio (SN)

Figure 3-12 Beacon information display

SS:SS (Signal Strength) displays a numeric representation of field strength of the received signal on the selected frequency. The higher the number the stronger the received signal. If noise is present at reception band width, the figure gets bigger.

SN: SN (Signal-to-Noise) ratio displays the ratio between the desired signal and un- wanted noise on the selected frequency. The higher the SN ratio the better the quality of the signal.

Note: If your equipment does not have a DPGS receiver, the message “NO DIFFER- ENTIAL DATA” appears when the soft key BEACON INFO is pressed.

3.7Steering Display

The steering display provides steering infor- mation such as range, bearing, ETA to desti- nation, course and speed.

Press the [PLOT] key several times to show the steering display.

Course

Compass bearing

Estimated time of arrival

Speed

Range from own ship to waypoint

Waypoint name

Bearing from	Course indicator
own ship to
	Bearing to waypoint
waypoint

		0 0 1 - W P				CROSS
						TRACK
	230	240		250	260
BRG	2 4 5 . 0 °		RNG		2 7 . 2 n m
CSE	2 3 4 . 5 °		SPD		1 3 . 6 k t
TTG		1h 59m	ETA		29th 14:50
0.1NM		X T E		0 0 0 . 0 2 n m		0.1NM
						EDIT
DGPS 3D
						XT-LMT
XTE			Indicates the			Own ship
indication
			direction to steer
range

Amount of XTE in nautical miles XTE scale

Time-to-go to waypoint

Figure 3-13 Steering display

How to read the compass display

The solid inverted triangle at the center of the compass shows own ship’s course (head- ing). The hollow inverted triangle shows the bearing to destination waypoint. When own ship’s course is changed, the hollow inverted triangle moves with course change.

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