MODEL 1724C/1734C, GD-1720C OPERATOR'S MANUAL OPERATOR'S MANUAL Marine Radar MODEL 1724C/1734C Color Video Plotter GD-1720C (Elemental Chlorine Free) The paper used in this manual is elemental chlorine free. VX2 C Your Local Agent/Dealer 9-52 Ashihara-cho, Nishinomiya 662-8580, JAPAN Telephone : +81-(0)798-65-2111 Fax : +81-(0)798-65-4200 All rights reserved. Printed in Japan FIRST EDITION : APR. 2005 Pub. No. OME-35550 (HIMA ) M1704C SER & GD1720C http://www.furuno.co.jp/ SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS WARNING ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD Do not open the equipment. Only qualified personnel should work inside the equipment. Do not disassemble or modify the equipment. Fire, electrical shock or serious injury can result. Immediately turn off the power at the switchboard if the equipment is emitting smoke or fire. Continued use of the equipment can cause fire or electrical shock. Contact a FURUNO agent for service. Keep heater away from equipment. A heater can melt the equipment's power cord, which can cause fire or electrical shock. Use the proper fuse. Fuse rating is shown on the equipment. Use of a wrong fuse can result in damage to the equipment. WARNING Radio Frequency Radiation Hazard The radar antenna emits electromagnetic radio frequency (RF) energy which can be harmful, particularly to your eyes. Never look directly into the antenna aperture from a close distance while the radar is in operation or expose yourself to the transmitting antenna at a close distance. Distances at which RF radiation levels of 100 and 10 W/m2 exist are given in the table below. Note: If the antenna unit is installed at a close distance in front of the wheel house, your administration may require halt of transmission within a certain sector of antenna revolution. This is possible - Ask your FURUNO representative or dealer to provide this feature. Distance to Distance to MODEL 100 W/m2 point 10 W/m2 point 1724C 1734C Nil 0.40 m Worst case 1.50 m Worst case 4.00 m CAUTION No one navigation device should ever be solely replied upon for the navigation of a vessel. Always confirm position against all available aids to navigation, for safety of vessel and crew. CAUTION A warning label is attached to the equipment. Do not remove the label. If the label is missing or damaged, contact a FURUNO agent or dealer about replacement. WARNING To avoid electrical shock, do not remove cover. No user-serviceable parts inside. Name: Warning Label (1) Type: 86-003-1011-0 Code No.: 100-236-230 NOTICE The brilliance of the LCD is adjustable to match a wide variety of lighting conditions. However, its maximum setting may not be sufficiently bright to permit viewing of the display with polarized sunglasses. i TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD ...................................vii SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS .........ix 1. OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW .. 1-1 1.1 Operating Controls ..................................1-1 1.1.1 Display unit controls ........................ 1-1 1.1.2 Remote controller............................ 1-3 1.2 Inserting a Chart Card.............................1-4 1.3 Turning the Unit On/Off ...........................1-5 1.4 Display Brilliance, Panel Brilliance, Hue .1-6 1.4.1 Display brilliance, panel brilliance.... 1-6 1.4.2 Hue ..................................... 1-7 1.5 Selecting a Display..................................1-8 1.5.1 Display modes ................................ 1-8 1.5.2 Selecting a display .......................... 1-9 1.5.3 Switching control in combination and overlay screens ................................... 1-10 1.5.4 Selecting image source ..................1-11 1.6 Cursor pad, Cursor................................1-12 1.7 Entering the MOB Mark, Setting MOB as Destination...................................................1-13 1.8 Data Boxes ............................................1-14 1.8.1 Showing, hiding data boxes with soft key ................................... 1-14 1.8.2 Rearranging data boxes ................ 1-14 1.8.3 Temporarily erasing a data box ..... 1-14 1.9 Function Keys........................................1-15 1.10 Simulation Display...............................1-16 2.10 Measuring the Range ............................2-9 2.10.1 Measuring range by range rings ....2-9 2.10.2 Measuring range by cursor ............2-9 2.10.3 Measuring range by VRM ............ 2-10 2.10.4 Various VRM operations .............. 2-10 2.11 Measuring the Bearing ........................2-11 2.11.1 Measuring bearing by cursor........ 2-11 2.11.2 Measuring bearing by EBL ........... 2-11 2.11.3 Various EBL operations................ 2-11 2.12 Erasing the Heading Line, North Marker.... .................................................2-12 2.13 Reducing Noise Interference...............2-12 2.14 Rejecting Radar Interference ..............2-13 2.15 Zoom .................................................2-14 2.15.1 Zooming radar targets.................. 2-14 2.15.2 Zooming ARP, TTM targets .......... 2-14 2.16 Shifting the Picture ..............................2-15 2.16.1 Manual shift ................................. 2-15 2.16.2 Automatic shift ............................. 2-15 2.17 Using the Offset EBL...........................2-16 2.17.1 Predicting collision course ........... 2-16 2.17.2 Measuring range & bearing between two targets ................................. 2-17 2.18 Echo Trails...........................................2-18 2.18.1 Trail time ................................. 2-18 2.18.2 Starting echo trails ....................... 2-19 2.18.3 Trail gradation.............................. 2-20 2.18.4 Trail color ................................. 2-20 2.19 Echo Stretch ........................................2-21 2.20 Echo Averaging ...................................2-22 2.21 Outputting TLL Data ............................2-23 2.22 Guard Alarm ........................................2-24 2.22.1 Setting a guard alarm zone .......... 2-24 2.22.2 When the alarm is violated... ....... 2-25 2.22.3 Cancelling the guard alarm .......... 2-25 2.23 Watchman............................................2-25 2.23.1 How watchman works .................. 2-25 2.23.2 Turning on/off watchman.............. 2-26 2.23.3 Setting watchman stand-by interval .... ................................. 2-26 2.24 Waypoint Marker .................................2-27 2.25 ARP, TTM Operation ...........................2-28 2.25.1 Activating/deactivating ARP, TTM 2-29 2. RADAR OPERATION ............. 2-1 2.1 Radar Display..........................................2-1 2.2 Transmitting, Stand-by ............................2-2 2.3 Tuning......................................................2-2 2.4 Adjusting the Gain ...................................2-2 2.5 Reducing Sea Clutter ..............................2-3 2.5.1 How the A/C SEA works .................. 2-3 2.5.2 Adjusting the A/C SEA..................... 2-4 2.6 Reducing Precipitation Clutter.................2-4 2.7 Range Scale............................................2-5 2.8 Pulselength..............................................2-6 2.9 Presentation Mode ..................................2-7 2.9.1 Selecting a presentation mode ........ 2-7 2.9.2 Description of presentation modes .. 2-8 ii 2.25.2 Acquiring and tracking targets (ARP) .. ................................. 2-29 2.25.3 Displaying target number (ARP, TTM). ................................. 2-31 2.25.4 Terminating tracking of ARP targets .... ................................. 2-31 2.25.5 Setting vector attributes (ARP) .... 2-32 2.25.6 Displaying past position (ARP) .... 2-33 2.25.7 ARP, TTM target data .................. 2-34 2.25.8 CPA/TCPA alarm (ARP)............... 2-35 2.25.9 Lost target alarm (ARP) ............... 2-36 2.25.10 Showing, hiding ARP target tracks.... .................................... 2-36 2.26 Interpreting the Radar Display ............2-37 2.26.1 False echoes ............................... 2-37 2.26.2 SART (Search and Rescue Transponder) ................................. 2-38 2.26.3 Racon (Radar Beacon) ................ 2-39 3. PLOTTER OPERATION ......... 3-1 3.1 Plotter Displays .......................................3-1 3.1.1 Full-screen plotter display................ 3-1 3.1.2 Nav graphic display ......................... 3-3 3.1.3 Highway display............................... 3-6 3.1.4 Nav data display .............................. 3-7 3.2 Presentation Mode ..................................3-8 3.3 Shifting the Display..................................3-9 3.4 Chart Scale..............................................3-9 3.5 Chart Cards .............................................3-9 3.5.1 Chart card overview......................... 3-9 3.5.2 Indices and chart enlargement....... 3-10 3.5.3 Navionics charts ............................ 3-11 3.5.4 C-MAP charts ................................ 3-14 3.6 Working with Track ................................3-18 3.6.1 Displaying track ............................. 3-18 3.6.2 Stopping, restarting plotting of own ship track .................................... 3-19 3.6.3 Changing track color...................... 3-19 3.6.4 Track plotting method and interval for own ship track .................................... 3-20 3.6.5 Changing own ship track/mark distribution setting .................................. 3-21 3.6.6 Erasing track ................................. 3-22 3.7 Marks, Lines ..........................................3-24 3.7.1 Entering a mark, line...................... 3-24 3.7.2 Changing mark attributes............... 3-24 3.7.3 Selecting line type ......................... 3-25 3.7.4 Erasing marks, lines ...................... 3-26 3.8 Waypoints ............................................. 3-27 3.8.1 Entering waypoints ........................ 3-27 3.8.2 Editing waypoint data .................... 3-30 3.8.3 Erasing waypoints ......................... 3-32 3.8.4 Changing waypoint mark size (Navionics GOLD).................................. 3-33 3.8.5 Searching waypoints ..................... 3-34 3.9 Routes .................................................. 3-35 3.9.1 Creating routes.............................. 3-35 3.9.2 Connecting routes ......................... 3-38 3.9.3 Inserting waypoints........................ 3-39 3.9.4 Removing waypoints from a route . 3-40 3.9.5 Erasing routes ............................... 3-41 3.10 Navigation........................................... 3-41 3.10.1 Navigating to a "quick point" ........ 3-41 3.10.2 Navigating to waypoints............... 3-42 3.10.3 Navigating to ports, port services 3-43 3.10.4 Following a route......................... 3-45 3.10.5 Canceling route navigation .......... 3-48 3.11 Alarms ................................................ 3-49 3.11.1 Audio alarm on/off ....................... 3-49 3.11.2 Arrival alarm ................................ 3-50 3.11.3 Anchor watch alarm..................... 3-51 3.11.4 XTE (Cross-Track Error) alarm .... 3-52 3.11.5 Speed alarm ................................ 3-52 3.11.6 Proximity alarm............................ 3-53 3.11.7 Trip alarm ................................. 3-53 3.11.8 Grounding alarm (C-MAP specification) .................................... 3-54 3.11.9 Alarm information ........................ 3-55 3.12 Resetting Trip Distance ...................... 3-57 4. VIDEO SOUNDER OPERATION .. ........................................... 4-1 4.1 Sounder Displays ....................................4-1 4.1.1 Selecting a sounder display............. 4-1 4.1.2 Description of sounder displays....... 4-2 4.1.3 Selecting screen split method in combination displays................................ 4-6 4.2 Automatic Sounder Operation.................4-6 4.2.1 How the automatic sounder works... 4-6 4.2.2 Types of automatic sounder modes. 4-6 4.2.3 How to enable automatic sounder operation ...................................... 4-7 4.3 Manual Sounder Operation .....................4-7 4.3.1 Selecting the manual mode ............. 4-7 4.3.2 Selecting display range ................... 4-7 4.3.3 Adjusting the gain............................ 4-8 iii 4.3.4 Shifting the range ............................ 4-8 4.4 Measuring Depth, Time ...........................4-9 4.5 Reducing Interference.............................4-9 4.6 Reducing Low Level Noise....................4-10 4.7 Erasing Weak Echoes ........................... 4-11 4.8 White Marker .........................................4-12 4.9 Picture Advance Speed .........................4-12 4.9.1 Advancement independent of ship's speed ................................... 4-12 4.9.2 Advancement synchronized with ship's speed ................................... 4-13 4.10 Display Colors .....................................4-14 4.11 Alarms .................................................4-15 4.11.1 Audio alarm on/off ....................... 4-15 4.11.2 Bottom alarm ............................... 4-16 4.11.3 Fish alarm . ...