Furuno FAR-3230S Marine RADAR User Manual


 
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19. RECORDING FUNCTIONS
The chart radar records various voyage-related items like movement and position of
own ship and dangerous radar targets (from Radar). These items are recorded in the
following logs:
19.1 How to Record User, Position Events
19.1.1 User events
A user event is a comment about an event
(weather, etc.). You can show user events
on the chart area. Open the [Tracking]
page of the [Symbol Display] menu show
or hide the events.
To record a user event:
1. Get into the Voyage planning mode
then click the [Record], [Event Log]
and [User Event] buttons on the In-
stantAccess bar to show the [Record
User Event] window.
2. Enter a comment. Click the [OK] but-
ton to finish and close the text box.
An event marker ( ) appears at your position and the event is recorded to the [Voy-
age] log.
To view the comment entered for
an event, put the cursor on the
event then left click to show the
[Event Information] window. The
window shows the name of the
event ([UserEvent]), time and date
of entry, latitude and longitude po-
sition of the event and comment.
Note that the comment can be edited from this window. Edit the comment then click
the [OK] button to save.
Event log: Records user events and position events.
NAV log: Records entire voyage (i.e., a sailing of a route from first point to the last,
also MOB data), details (position, speed and course every minute), chart
usage (information on charts used for display).
Target log: Records dangerous TT.
Alert log: Records alerts generated by the system.
Chart log: Records the install and update history for the ENC and C-MAP charts.