Raymarine Chartplotter RL70CRC PLUS, RL80CRC PLUS, Combined Pathfinder Radar Placing a Guard Zone

Placing a Guard Zone

3-20 hsb2 PLUS Series Color LCD Display

Placing a Guard Zone

Placing and positioning guard zones on the Pathfinder Plus Radar display is quick and easy.

•If a guard zone is not already displayed, you can place one using the

ALARMS key.

•If you have already placed a guard zone, pressing the ALARMS key allows you to toggle either guard zone on or off.

Note: When you turn on a guard zone, it is normally displayed in its last-used position and shape. However, if this position is off-screen at the current range setting, or within one quarter of the current range from your vessel, the guard zone is placed at its default position and shape instead. This is at one third (Zone 1) or two thirds (Zone 2) of the current range, as a sector zone occupy- ing 30° either side of the ship’s heading marker.

➤To place a guard zone:

1. Press ALARMS. The soft keys are displayed.

u

ALARMS

GUARD 1

OFF ON

GUARD 1		GUARD 2
OFF				ON
	ON		OFF

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The soft keys indicate the current status of the two guard zones.

2.If necessary, press the soft key for the guard zone you require, to toggle the setting between OFF and ON. The soft keys are cleared. If you turned a guard zone on, it is displayed in its last-used position with one corner under cursor control.

The radar picture shows the guard zone as a four-sided shape bounded by a solid line (or a circle if previously set as one).

The cursor is positioned over an outer corner of the zone as shown in Figure 3-14. The cursor has control of this corner, as shown by the text GRD in inverse video, the four-headed arrow, and the solid guard zone boundary.

Sector Zone Circular Zone

Ship's Heading Marker

Cursor symbol as
four-way arrow
Cursor text in		Move
	GRD
inverse video
		cursor

Zone as solid line

Indicate cursor control

of guard zone

GRD

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Figure 3-14: Placing a Guard Zone