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7. Press the [ENT] key to display the win-

dow shown in Figure 7-3.

8. Select AUTO or MANU. AUTO uses

ship’s average speed to calculate time-
to-go; MANU is for manual entry of
speed.

9. Press the [ENT] key. If you selected

AUTO no further operation is necessary.
For MANU, press the [ENT] key again.
Enter speed with the cursor pad and
press the [ENT] key.

Figure 7-5 shows what the display might
look like using Route-01 as an example.

Figure 7-5 Typical calculation

display (route)

7.2 DGPS Setup, DGPS Data

The GP-36 is equipped with a DGPS bea-
con receiver, and is set at the factory for
automatic beacon receiver operation. To
manually adjust the GP-36’s beacon re-
ceiver, or set up the GP-36 or GP-31 to use
an external DPGS beacon receiver, do the
following:

1. Press the [MENU] key once or twice to

open the menu.

2. Select D-GPS and press the [ENT] key.

Figure 7-6 DGPS SETUP menu

3. The cursor is on the BEACON field.

Press the [ENT] key.

4. A window showing the choices INT, EXT

and OFF appears. Select one of those
items and press the [ENT] key.

Figure 7-7 Beacon receiver

selection window

INT: For internal DGPS beacon
receiver (GP-36 only)
EXT: For external DGPS beacon
receiver
OFF: Disables DGPS function. When
the DGPS function turns off,it takes
about 1 minute to fix GPS position.