Referencemanual
Tableofcontents
ABOUTTHISMANUAL.....................................................11
SIMRADEK15.................................................................13
Important................................................................................................................14
WhentheEK15isnotused..........................................................................14
Whenyouaredockingyourvessel...............................................................14
Ifsomethingbreaksdown............................................................................14
WhenyouswitchofftheEK15....................................................................15
Transducerhandling....................................................................................15
Systemdescription.................................................................................................15
Systemdiagram......................................................................................................17
Networksecurity....................................................................................................18
Supportinformation...............................................................................................18
GETTINGSTARTED..........................................................20
Poweron/offprocedures.........................................................................................21
PoweringuptheEK15................................................................................21
PoweringdowntheEK15............................................................................22
Startingnormaloperation.......................................................................................23
Settingoperationalmode'Normal'tostart'pinging'.......................................24
Selectingmenulanguage.............................................................................24
Checkingthetransceiverandtransducersettings...........................................25
Checkingthebottomdetectorsettings..........................................................26
Checkingthecolourscalesettings................................................................27
Changingthecolourscaletoremovetheweakestechoes...............................28
Checkingtheechogramsettings...................................................................29
Checkingtherangesettings.........................................................................31
Savingthecurrentusersettings....................................................................32
Operatingprinciples...............................................................................................33
Cursor........................................................................................................33
Mouse........................................................................................................34
Trackball....................................................................................................34
Presentationoverview............................................................................................35
Echosounderpresentations.........................................................................35
TitleBar.....................................................................................................37
StatusBar...................................................................................................38
Themenusystem........................................................................................40
Themenubuttons.......................................................................................40
Contextsensitiveon-linehelp................................................................................42
OPERATIONALPROCEDURES..........................................43
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