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–I/OSetup
Inordertocommunicatewithperipheraldevices,theProcessorUnitoffersseveral
serialand/orEthernet(LAN)ports.Thenumberofcommunicationportsdepends
onhowyourProcessorUnitissetupandcongured.TheI/OSetupsettingsallow
youtodenewhichinformationisimportedbytheProcessorUnit.Foreachport,
youcansetupthecommunicationparameters,andmonitorthedataow.
I/OSetuppage,page371
–Synchronization
ThepurposeoftheSynchronizationparametersistosetuptheES80tooperate
alone,orasamasterorslaveinasynchronizedsystem.Synchronizationis
requiredinordertoavoidinterferenceiftheES80isusedsimultaneouslywith
otherhydroacousticinstrumentswithinthesamefrequencyrange.
Synchronizationpage,page375
–Units
TheES80userinterfacepresentsmanymeasurements.Thesemeasurementsare
forexamplerelatedtodepth,rangeordistance.ThechoicesontheUnitspage
allowyoutocontrolwhichunitsofmeasurementsthatareused.
Unitspage,page378
–Trawl
Whenyouuseatrawl,theES80candrawtheupperandlowertrawllinesinthe
echogram.Inordertothis,theES80needstoknowtherelevanttrawlparameters.
IfyourtrawlsystemisconnectedtotheES80,theseparametersareautomatically
available.Ifthetrawlsystemisnot
connected,theTrawloptionsallowyouto
denetheparametersmanually.
Trawlpage,page380
–Annotations
Whenyoustudyanechogram,itisoftenusefultoaddpersonalcommentstoit.
Commentscanbeusedtoidentifyspeciceventssuchasspecicechoes,unusual
bottomconditions,orsimplyforkeepingtrackoftimeordistance.TheAnnotations
choicesallowyoutotypecommentsandannotationsintotheechograms.The
commentsareautomaticallysavedwhenyouenablerawdatarecording.
Annotationspage,page382
–SoftwareLicense
TheES80needsoneormoresoftwarelicensestowork.Eachsoftwarelicense
code"unlocks"oneWideBandTransceiver(WBT)foroperationalusewithaset
ofpredenedproperties.TheSoftwareLicensesettingsallowyoutotypealicense
code(textstring)tounlocktheES80functionality.
SoftwareLicensepage,page384
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