NorthStar 957 Operator's Manual page 137

Setting alarms to
honk
957 Operator's Manual, Rev. B
To turn on the DGPS alarm, press the CURSOR PAD to
highlight DGPS ALARM, then press the EDIT ALARM menu
key. Press the CURSOR PAD to turn the alarm to ON, then
press the ENTER key.
You can set the 957 to honk, in addition to the beep, if a
honker has been connected to pin #14 on the interface
connector. Once you set the anchor alarm to honk, a
continuous honking sequence begins when:
•
your vessel moves outside the specified anchor-alarm
radius
- or -
•
the navigation source (for example, GPS) becomes
unavailable, so that it's unsure if you're inside the radius
To set the anchor alarm to honk:
1. On the ALARMS screen, press the CURSOR PAD to high-
light HONK OUTPUT, then press the EDIT ALARM menu
key.
2. Press the CURSOR PAD to select ANCHOR ALM.
3. Press the ENTER key.
4. Set the ANCHOR ALARM to ON if it's currently set to OFF.
5. Press the DROP ANCHOR key.
If your vessel moves outside the anchor-alarm radius, then for
the next 10 seconds, the anchor drag icon begins flashing and
the alarm automatically beeps (you'll hear the beeping only if
you've set the ALARM AUDIO to ON). The honk sequence
then starts for a total of 3.5 minutes: 1 second of honking
followed by 14 seconds of silence; 2 seconds of honking
followed by 13 seconds of silence; 3 seconds of honking
followed by 12 seconds of silence, and so forth, until the
honking is up to 14 seconds followed by 1 second of silence.
This 3.5-minute honk cycle repeats forever until you
manually clear the anchor alarm. This honk does not
automatically clear under any conditions. To clear the alarm,
press the STAR key to display the ALARMS screen, then press
Chapter 10 - Using Special Functions
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