Garmin GPSMAP 700 - Information about Your Boat; Alarms

56 GPSMAP
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700 Series Owner’s Manual
Device Conguration
4. Complete an action:
Select AIS List to view a list of AIS targets (page 12).
Select DSC List to view a log of the most-recent DSC calls and other DSC contacts you have
entered (page 84).
Select AIS Display Setup to congure how AIS vessels are shown on a chart (page 14).
Select DSC Trails to show the tracks of DSC vessels. Select the length of the track that
appears using a trail (page 87).
Select AIS Alarm to set up a safe-zone collision alarm for AIS vessels (page 15).
Information about Your Boat
Calibrating a Water Speed Device
If you have a speed-sensing transducer, you can calibrate that speed-sensing device.
1. From the Home screen, select
Congure > My Boat > Calibrate Water Speed.
2. Follow the on-screen instructions.
NOTE: If the boat is not moving fast enough or the speed sensor is not registering a speed, a
“Speed too low” message appears. Select OK, and safely increase the boat speed. If the message
appears again, stop the boat, and ensure that the speed-sensor wheel is not stuck. If the wheel
turns freely, check the cable connections. If you continue to get the message, contact Garmin
Product Support.
Setting the Fuel Capacity of Your Boat
1. From the Home screen, select Congure > My Boat > Fuel Capacity.
2. Enter the combined fuel capacity of all the engines on your boat.
3. Select
Done.
Alarms
By default, all alarms are turned off, except the destination and weather alarms. The chartplotter
must be on for the alarms to work.
NOTE: See the GPSMAP 700 Series XM WX Satellite Weather
®
and XM Satellite Radio Supplement
(North America only) for information concerning weather alarms.
Navigation Alarms
Setting an Arrival Alarm
You can set an alarm to sound when you are within a specied distance or time from a turn or a
destination waypoint.
1. From the Home screen, select
Congure > Alarms > Navigation > Arrival.
2. Complete an action:
Select Type. Indicate whether you want arrival alarms to sound only when nearing
Destinations, or when nearing Destinations and Turns.
Select Activation. Indicate whether the arrival alarm triggers based on Time to arrival or
based on Distance to arrival.
Select Change Time (if Activation is set to Time) or Change Distance (if Activation is set to
Distance) to indicate how long before arrival (in minutes) or how far before arrival ( in units
of distance) the alarm should sound. Enter the time or distance. Select Done.
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