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Raymarine GPS navigation User Manual

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Manual

Corrections

Although its not very likely that you will choose to correct your GPS

position with any type of manual corrections, the means to do so is included

in the NAV 398 menus. Manual corrections would not be efficient because

the variable errors introduced by the “selective availability” mode to the GPS
satellites negates such fine calibration attempts. GPS

improvements are

much more likely to occur when the differential Beacon receiver is providing
dynamic corrections to the GPS sensor.

However, to “calibrate” your GPS to the

charts by using fixed.

correction factors added or subtracted to

readouts use

correction procedure for loran operation described in paragraph 3.13.2.4. to

determine the needed correction values. Please refer to the description in that
section for further details.

Press

The

L/L characters will become highlighted

by a reverse block.

Type the numbers of the Lat correction value

and press

. The N/S prompt appears.

Use the

if necessary, to set the desired

direction. Then

Now type the digits for the Longitude correc-

tion and press

The

prompt now

appears. Use the

again to set the correct

direction, if necessary. Then press
key to finish inputing the correction.

The L/L position correction that is entered for

GPS is only used for GPS mode. If a L/L cor-

rection is made for the loran sensor, that correc-

tion value is only used for the loran.

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Correction for GPS

When

key is pressed on the

POSITION CORR

. GPS

1

menu the

menu appears. The first

be used to input some offsets to

the TD readouts that are converted from the GPS L/L coordinates. Essentially
this menu entry functions in the same manner as the TD corrections for Loran
already discussed in section 3.13.2.3. Please refer again to the instructions

provided in that section.

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