Furuno NAVIONICS GP-1850F - Manual (Page 32)

3-6
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 3D
RETURN
BEACON
INFO
MODE
FREQ
BAUD
RATE AUTO SEARCH
288.0kHz
200 BPS
RECEIVED DATA:
BEACON STATION:
OK
OK
SS
SN
75
19
Beacon receiver setting status
Receive data status
Signal strength (SS),
Signal to noise ratio (SN)
DGPS reference station information
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.
3.7 Steering 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.
DGPS 3D
EDIT
XT-LMT
X T E 0 0 0 . 0 2 n m
0.1NM 0.1NM
BRG 2 4 5 . 0
°
CSE
TTG
RNG
SPD n m
k t
ETA 1h 59m 29th 14:50
2 3 4 . 5
°
2 7 . 2
1 3 . 6
260 250 240 230
CROSS
TRACK
0 0 1 - W P
Bearing from
own ship to
waypoint
Course indicator
Compass bearing
Course
Amount of XTE in nautical miles
XTE scale
Time-to-go to waypoint
Own ship
XTE
indication
range
Waypoint name
Range from own ship to waypoint
Speed
Estimated time of arrival
Bearing to waypoint
Indicates the
direction to steer
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.