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You can look up tidal data for other dates by changing the month, day
and year selection boxes. To select another date:
1. Use → and ← to highlight month, day or year, then press
ENT
.
2. Use ↑ and ↓ to select the desired month, day or year, then press
ENT
.
To clear the information screen, press
EXIT
.
Pop-up Help
Help is available for virtually all of the menu labels on this unit. By
highlighting a menu item and leaving it highlighted for a few seconds, a
"pop-up" message appears that describes the function of the menu item.
This feature is on by default.
To set up Popup Help: Press
MENU
|
MENU
|↓ to
S
YSTEM
S
ETUP
|
ENT
|↓
to
P
OPUP
H
ELP
. With the option highlighted, press
ENT
to check it (turn
on) and uncheck it (turn off.) After the option is set, press
EXIT
|
EXIT
to
return to the page display.
System Setup menu, left, with Pop-up Help command highlighted. At
right, this example shows the Pop-up Help message for the Go To Cur-
sor command, located on the Map Menu.
Position Pinning
When you are standing still or moving at extremely slow speed, a GPS
receiver can have trouble determining the direction you are traveling.
In the past, this resulted in a "wandering" plot trail that moved around
the map, even if you were standing still.
The Position Pinning feature was developed so that when you stopped,
the unit locked the present position on the GPS plotter until you moved
a short distance or exceeded a very slow speed.
The command remains available in the unit's software, but we recom-
mend that you leave it in the default off (unchecked) mode. The "wan-
dering" plot trail issue has now been corrected by the Track Smoothing
feature. Turning on Position Pinning could actually result in an inaccu-