User manual MAGELLAN NAV 6500 6510

[. . . ] MAGELLAN NAV 6500/NAV 6510 User Manual © 1998 by Magellan Corporation. No part of this User Guide may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, for any purpose other than the purchaser's personal use without the written permission of Magellan Corporation. MagellanTM, GPS NAV 6500/ NAV 6510TM are the trademarks of Magellan Corporation. 630323 Magellan NAV 6500/ NAV 6510 User Manual WARNINGS USE GOOD JUDGEMENT This product is an excellent navigation aid, but does not replace the need for careful orienteering and good judgement. [. . . ] High- OFF ON light Beeper, press ENTER and a window opens shows On/Off. Use the CURSOR KEY to select one and press ENTER. Default setting: On Language Setting Date can be shown as Month-Day-Year or Day-Month-Year. Press the Aux softkey, highlight General Setup using CURSOR KEY, and press ENTER. Highlight Date Format, press ENTER and a window opens that lists MMM-DD-YY and DD-MMM-YY. MMM-DD-YY DD-MMM-YY The receiver supports five languages: English, Italian, French, German and Spanish. Press the Aux softkey, highlight General Setup using the CURSOR KEY and press ENTER. Highlight Language, press ENTER and a window opens listing the languages. 40 Magellan NAV 6500/NAV 6510 Use the CURSOR KEY to select one and press ENTER. Default setting: English Navigation Setup English Italiano Francais Deutsch Espanol The important difference between Deg/Min/Sec and Deg/Min/Fractions is that there are 60 seconds in one minute of latitude or longitude (the seconds value will always be between 00 and 59), whereas fractions of a minute are expressed in decimal format (from . 00 to . 99, or . 000 to . 999). Press the Aux softkey, use the CURSOR KEY to highlight Navigation Setup, and press ENTER. Use the CURSOR KEY to highlight Coordinate System, and press ENTER. ddd mm. ss ddd mm. mm ddd mm. mmm UTM OSGB TD The Navigation Setup menu enables you to change the coordinate system, map datum, north reference, map orientation, and NAV 2 screen setup. It also activates or deactivates course projection. Coordinate System Map Datum North Reference Map Orientation Projected Course Nav2 Screen Setup SOG COG DTG CTS XTE STR ddd mm. mm WGS 1984 Auto Mag. North Up OFF Use the CURSOR KEY to highlight desired coordinate system and ENTER to set. If TD's is selected, the chain and pair must be chosen. The ASF value can be set to correct the coordinates in case of map shift 0. 0 to 9. 9. TD Settings Chain: Pair: ASF 1: ASF 2: Prime: 9970 XY +0. 0 +0. 0 ON Selecting Coordinate System Position coordinates displayed on the NAV1 screen and waypoint coordinates displayed on the waypoint screen can be based on latitude/longitude, Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM), Ordinance Survey of Great Britain (OSBG) or Loran TD's. If latitude/longitude is selected, the position can be displayed in Degrees, Minutes, Seconds or Degrees, Minutes and fractions of minutes to 2 or 3 digits of resolution, (ddd mm. mm or ddd mm. mmm). Magellan NAV 6500/NAV 6510 Turn Prime OFF if the coordinate position does not correspond to the chart position. (Since two solutions are possible, mathematically, in certain rare cases the second calculation is the more accurate of the two. ) Press ESC to exit. Default setting: latitude/longitude, ddd mm. mm tions of mins to 2 places resolution) (Frac41 Selecting Map Datum The receiver allows selecting from 93 different map datums. All information dislayed on the map screen is based on WGS84. Only position coordinates displayed on the NAV1 screen and waypoint coordinates entered manually (not through the map) are based on the map datum selected by the user through the Aux function. Press the Aux softkey, use the CURSOR KEY to highlight Navigation Setup and press ENTER. Use the CURSOR KEY to highlight Map Datum and press ENTER. Use the CURSOR KEY to highlight the desired map datum and ENTER to set. [. . . ] Coordinate system using latitude and longitude coordinates to define a position on the earth. A segment of a route that has a starting (FROM) waypoint and a destination (TO) waypoint. For a route that is from waypoint A to waypoint B, waypoint B to waypoint C, and waypoint point C to waypoint D has three legs with the first leg being from waypoint A to waypoint B. Longitude Latitude The angular distance east or west of the prime meridian (Greenwich meridian) as measured by lines perpendicular to the parallels and converging at the poles from 0° to 180°. The direction toward the north magnetic pole from the observer's position. [. . . ]