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GPS NAVIGATOR
DGPS NAVIGATOR
GP-31/GP-36
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Your Local Agent/Dealer Your Local Agent/Dealer 9-52 Ashihara-cho, 9-52 Ashihara-cho, Nishinomi Nishinomiy ya, Ja a, Jap pan an Tele Telep phone : hone : 0798-65-2111 0798-65-2111 Telefax : Telefax : 0798-65-4200 0798-65-4200 FIRST EDITION : FIRST EDITION : MAY. MAY. 1999 1999 A All ri ll rig ghts reserved. hts reserved. Printed in Japan Printed in Japan K : K : APR. APR. 26,2002 26,2002 PUB.No. PUB.No. OME-43990 OME-43990 *00080877701* *00080877701* *00080877701* *00080877701*
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SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Safety Instructions for the Operator WARNING CAUTION Do not open the equipment. Do not use the equipment for other than its intended purpose. Only qualified personnel should work inside the equipment. Improper use of the equipment can result in personal injury or equipment damage. Do not disassemble or modify the equipment. No one navigation device should ever be solely replied upon for the navigation Fire, electrical shock or serious injury can of a vessel. result. Always co
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Safety Instructions for the Installer CAUTION WARNING Ground the equipment to Do not open the cover unless totally prevent mutual interference. familiar with electrical circuits and service manual. Improper handling can result in electrical Observe the following compass safe shock. distances to prevent interference to a magnetic compass: Turn off the power at the switchboard Standard Steering before beginning the installation. compass compass Display 0.5 m 0.3 m Fire or electrical
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 6.5 Time Alarm .......................................... 6-3 FOREWORD ........................................... iv 6.6 Trip Distance Alarm .............................6-4 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION ............... v 6.7 Buzzer Type Selection ........................ 6-4 EQUIPMENT LISTS .............................. vi 7. OTHER FUNCTIONS 1. OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW 7.1 Calculating Range, Bearing and TTG .7-1 7.2 DGPS Setup, DGPS Data ..................7-2 1.1 Control Description ....
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FOREWORD A Word to GP-31/GP-36 Features Owners The GP-31/GP-36 is a totally integrated GPS receiver and video plotter, and consists of a Congratulations on your choice of the GP- display unit and an antenna unit. 31 GPS Navigator, GP-36 DGPS Navigator. We are confident you will see why the The GP-36 additionally has a DGPS beacon FURUNO name has become synonymous receiver built in its display unit. The high sen- with quality and reliability. sitivity GPS receiver tracks up to twelve sat- ellite
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SYSTEM CONFIGURATION GP-36 System configuration GP-31 System configuration v
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EQUIPMENT LISTS Standard supply Ne ame Ty ypQs t Remark D6 isplay Unit GP-3Br EACON board incorporated Including hange 1 and knob bolts Gd P-31 No BEACON boar A7 ntenna Unit GPA-01 For GP-31, with 10 m cable For GP-36, E-field (whip) DGPS antenna, w/10 m GPA-018 1 cable For GP-36, H-field (loop) DGPS antenna, w/10 m GPA-019 cable Installation1, set • Power/Data cable (Type: MJ-A7SPF0005-020 Materials Code No.: 000-139-384) • Spring washer (1 pc., for whip antenna of GPA-018, Type: M10, Code No.:
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1. OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW 1.1 Control Description Cursor Pad Shifts cursor and display. Selects items on menus. Press once: Zoom, centering, or escapes from current opera- MENU ENT Registers items on menus. tion, depending on display in use. Press twice: Opens menu. GOTO DISP Sets/cancels destination. Selects display mode. MARK Inscribes mark, MOB mark MOB on the display. DIM Long press: Turns power PWR off. Touch and release: Turns power on. Opens the display for adjustment of dimmer and contra
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Turning off the power 1.2 Turning On and Off the Power Press and hold down the [DIM/PWR] key until the screen goes blank, approx. three Turning on the power seconds. The time remaining until power off is counted down on the display. Press the [DIM/PWR] key. The unit beeps and then starts up with the last-used dis- play mode. 1.3 Adjusting Display Dimmer Your equipment takes about two minutes and Contrast to find its position when turned on for the very first time. 1. Press the [DIM/P
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1.4 Display Modes Your unit has five display modes: Plotter Display, Highway Display, Steering Display, Nav Data Display and User Display (digital data or speedometer). Press the [DISP] key to select a display mode. Each time the key is pressed, the display mode changes in the sequence shown below. Figure 1-3 Display modes Note: Position data can be shown in latitude and longitude or TDs (Loran C or Decca). 1-3
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Plotter display The plotter display traces own ship’s track, and shows position, course, speed, and hori- zontal display range setting. Figure 1-4 Plotter display Highway display The highway display provides a 3-D view of own ship’s progress toward destination. Nav data is also shown. Figure 1-5 Highway display 1-4
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Steering display The steering display provides steering information such as ship’s speed, course; range, bearing, ETA and TTG (Time-To-Go) to destination. Figure 1-6 Steering display Nav data display The nav data display shows position in latitude and longitude (or TDs), course, speed, date and time. Figure 1-7 Nav data display 1-5
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User displays Two user displays are available, digital and speedometer, and the operator may select which to display. The default display is the digital display. Digital display The digital display shows digital navigation data. The user may choose what data to dis- play in the three cells below the receiver status, date and time indications. The choices of data are speed, course, range, bearing, time-to-go, estimated time of arrival, trip distance and power source voltage. Figure 1-8 Digital di
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1.5 Basic Menu Operation Most operations of the your unit are car- ried out through the menu. Below is a quick introduction to how to select a menu and Figure 1-12 Options of TRACK REC change menu settings. If you get lost in op- eration, press the [MENU] key to return to 5. Press s or t to select option desired. the MAIN menu. A complete menu tree appears in the Appendix. 6. Press the [ENT] key. 7. Press the [MENU] key twice to finish. 1. Press the [MENU] key once or twice to display the menu.
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5. Press s to display “–”. 6. Press to send the cursor to the next digit. 7. Press s or t to display 0. 8. Press to send the cursor to the next digit. 9. Press s or t to display 6. Figure 1-16 SIMULATOR menu 10.Press to send the cursor to the next 4. Press the [ENT] key. A window appears digit. which shows the choices ON or OFF. 11.Press s or t to display 3. 5. Select ON and press the [ENT] key. 12.Press to send the cursor to the last 6. Press the [ENT] key, enter speed to use digit. for the
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13.To turn off the simulator display, select OFF at step 5 in this procedure, press the [ENT] key, and press the [MENU] key twice to finish. Note: If the power is reset while the simu- lator display is in use, the indication SIMU- LATION MODE appears at the top of the screen at the next power up, in addition to the indication SIM. SIMULATION MODE disappears when any key is pressed. 1-9
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2. PLOTTER DISPLAY OVERVIEW 2.1 Enlarging/Shrinking the 2.2 Shifting the Cursor Display Range Use the cursor pad to shift the cursor. The cursor moves in the direction of the arrow You may increase or decrease the display or diagonal pressed on the cursor pad. range on the plotter and highway displays. The horizontal range in the plotter display is available among .02 (40 yd), .05 (101 yd), Cursor state and data 0.1 (202 yd), 0.2 (405 yd), 0.5, 1, 2, 5, 10, Cursor state determines what dat
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2.5 Changing Track Plotting Interval, Stopping Plotting of Track To trace the ship’s track, the ship’s position is stored into the memory at an interval of distance or automatic recording (memory capacity: 1,000 points). For distance, a shorter interval provides better reconstruc- tion of the track, but the storage time of the track is reduced. When the track memory becomes full, the oldest track is erased to make room for the latest. 1. Press the [MENU] key once or twice to display
