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Figure 7: illustrated, Screen – NorthStar Navigation Echo Sounder NorthStar 491 User Manual

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background image

491 Echo Sounder Operations Manual

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real-time echoes. For details, see “Reviewing past echoes using
SoundTrac” starting on page 51.

Figure 7: Illustrated

SOUNDTRAC

screen

NOTES:

All of the alarm messages always appear on all of the echo
sounder’s screens. You won’t miss any alarms while displaying
echo sounding data, and you never have to press any keys to view
the current alarms (although you must press

STAR

to clear alarms

that don’t automatically clear).

The

SAVE

and

MOB

functions always work normally. Moreover,

on the 961/962, whenever you press either of these keys, the corre-
sponding

*SAVE##*

or

*MOB##*

waypoints will be displayed

automatically on the echo sounder’s picture, as well as on the

CHART

screen (after you press

CHART

).

Depth Scale

Depth
box

Water
temperature
box

Water
temperature
scale

Depth
marker
and
indicator

Echo data

Lat/lon of
position
marker

Dist/brg to
position
marker

Steering indicator

Speed, course, and speed
through the water

Color
bar

Position
marker
and
indicator