Garmin GPSMAP 546 - To set the distance from shore; Configuring Communications Settings

Conguring the Chartplotter
48 GPSMAP 400/500 Series Owner’s Manual
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1. Dock your boat or drop anchor.
2. From the Home screen, select  >  >  >
e >  > .
3. From Home screen, select  > .
4. Select a waypoint for a destination that you have navigated to previously.
5. Select  > .
6. Review the placement of the Auto Guidance line. Determine whether the
line safely avoids known obstacles, and whether the turns enable efcient
travel.
7. Complete an action:
• If the placement of the Auto Guidance line is satisfactory, select 
>  > . Proceed to step 11.
• If the Auto Guidance line is too close to known obstacles, from the
Home screen, select  >  >  > 
 >  > .
• If the turns in the Auto Guidance line are too wide, from the Home
screen, select  >  >  > 
 >  > .
8. If you selected  or  in step 7, review the placement of the Auto
Guidance line. Determine whether the line safely avoids known obstacles,
and whether the turns enable efcient travel.
9. Complete an action:
• If the placement of the Auto Guidance line is satisfactory, select 
>  > . Proceed to step 11.
• If the Auto Guidance line is too close to known obstacles, from the
Home screen, select  >  >  > 
 >  > .
• If the turns in the Auto Guidance line are too wide, from the Home
screen, select  >  >  > 
 >  > .
10. If you selected  or  in step 9, review the placement of
the Auto Guidance line. Determine whether the line safely avoids known
obstacles, and whether the turns enable efcient travel.
11. Repeat steps 1-10 at least once more, using a different destination each
time, until you are familiar with the functionality of the Shoreline Distance
setting.
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To change the communications settings from the Home screen, select
> .
—congures the input/output format for serial port 1 to use when
connecting your chartplotter to external NMEA devices, a computer, or other
Garmin devices.
• —supports the input or output of Garmin-
proprietary data for communicating with Garmin software.
• —supports the input or output of standard NMEA 0183
data, DSC, and sonar NMEA input support for the DPT, MTW, and VHW
sentences.