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Furuno GP-30 Operator's Manual

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  • Page 2 Yo u r L o c a l A g e n t / D e a l e r 9 - 5 2 , A s h i h a r a - c h o , N i s h i n o m i y a , J a p a n Te l e p h o n e : 0 7 9 8 - 6 5 - 2 111 Te l e f a x :...
  • Page 3 Fuse rating is shown on the equipment. the equipment. Use of a wrong fuse can result in equipment damage. Continued use of the equipment can cause fire or electrical shock. Contact a FURUNO agent for service. Do not disassemble or modify the equipment. CAUTION Fire, electrical shock or serious injury can result.
  • Page 4 Safety Instructions for the Installer CAUTION WARNING Do not open the cover unless totally Ground the equipment to familiar with electrical circuits and prevent mutual interference. service manual. Improper handling can result in electrical Observe the following compass safe shock. distances: Turn off the power at the switchboard Standard...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD 5. SETTING, CANCELLING ........v DESTINATION 5.1 Setting Destination by Cursor ..5-1 1. OPERATIONAL 5.2 Setting Destination by Waypoint ... 5-1 5.3 Setting Route as Destination ..5-2 OVERVIEW 5.4 Canceling Destination ....5-2 1.1 System Configuration ....1-1 1.2 Control Description .......
  • Page 6 9. INSTALLATION 9.1 Installation of Display Unit.... 9-1 9.2 Installation of Antenna Unit ... 9-1 9.3 Wiring ..........9-2 9.4 Initial Settings ........ 9-3 APPENDIX SPECIFICATIONS ......A-1 EQUIPMENT LISTS ......A-3 GEODETIC CHART LIST ....A-4 DGPS REFERENCE STATIONS ..A-5 LORAN C CHAINS ......

  • Page 7: Foreword

    The GP-30/35 GPS Navigator is a totally FURUNO GP-30/35 GPS Navigator. We are integrated GPS receiver and video plotter, confident you will see why the FURUNO and consists of a display unit and an antenna name has become synonymous with quality unit.

  • Page 9: Control Description

    1.2 Control Description Cursor Pad Shifts cursor and display. Selects items on menus. One pressing: Zoom, centering. Registers items on menus. MENU Two pressings: Opens menu. Selects display mode. GOTO Sets/cancels destination. DISP MARK Inscribes mark, MOB mark on the display. Long press: Turns power on/off.

  • Page 10: Turning On And Off The Power

    1.3 Turning On and Off the Turning off the power Power Press and hold down the [DIM/PWR] key until the screen goes blank. Turning on the power Press and hold down the [DIM/PWR] key. The unit beeps and then starts up with the 1.4 Adjusting Display Dimmer last-used display mode.

  • Page 11: Display Modes

    1.5 Display Modes The GP-30/35 has four display modes: Plotter Display, Highway Display, Steering Display, and Nav Data Display. Press the [DISP] key to select a display mode. Each time the key is pressed, the display mode changes in the sequence shown below. CSE: DISP key DISP key...
  • Page 13 Steering Display The steering display provides steering information such as range, bearing and ETA to desti- nation, course, and speed. Receiver status Bearing reference (magnetic) Time Bearing from own ship 04:32 CURSOR to destination 300 330 Bearing scale Own ship mark 12.5 Speed SPD:...

  • Page 14: Basic Menu Operation

    5. Press to select option desired. 1.6 Basic Menu Operation 6. Press the [ENT] key. Most operations of the GP-30/35 are carried 7. Press the [MENU] key twice to finish. out through the menu. Below is a quick in- troduction to how to select a menu and change menu settings.

  • Page 15: Simulator Display

    9. Press to display 6. 4. Press the [ENT] key. 10.Press s to send the cursor to the next 5. Select ON and press the [ENT] key. digit. 6. Press the [ENT] key, enter speed to use 11. Press to display 3. for the simulation with the Cursor Pad, and press the [ENT] key.

  • Page 16: Plotter Display Overview

    2. PLOTTER DISPLAY OVERVIEW 2.1 Enlarging/Shrinking the 2.2 Shifting the Cursor Display Operate the Cursor Pad to shift the cursor. The cursor moves in the direction of the ar- You may enlarge and shrink the display on row or diagonal pressed on the Cursor Pad. the Plotter and Highway displays.

  • Page 17: Shifting The Display

    2.5 Changing Track Plotting Own ship’s position (Blinking) Interval, Stopping Plotting Course of Track In drawing track, first the ship’s position (fed [ 40 from the GPS receiver) is stored into the CSE: memory at an interval of distance or auto- matic recording.

  • Page 18: Erasing Track

    4. The cursor should be on the TRACK 2.6 Erasing Track REC line. Press the [ENT] key. The track recording method selection window ap- All track can be erased. Track cannot be re- pears. stored once erased. Be absolutely sure you want to erase all track.

  • Page 19: Waypoints (Marks)

    3. WAYPOINTS (MARKS) c) Press s to move the cursor to the next 3.1 Entering Waypoints column and press to display In navigation terminology a waypoint is a d) Press s to move the cursor to the next particular location on a voyage whether it column and press to display be a starting, intermediate or destination...
  • Page 20 f) Enter a comment (max. sixteen char- Entering a waypoint through the acters) with the Cursor Pad and press menu the [ENT] key. To create a space se- 1. Press the [MENU] key twice. lect “blank” character. To remove all characters which follow the cursor, 2.

  • Page 21: Entering The Mob Mark

    7. Press the [ENT] key, enter longitude 3. Press the [ENT] key. (LOP) in similar fashion and press the [ENT] key. SAVED TO MOB. GO TO MOB ? Note: To enter position by LOPs, see “7.8 Displaying Position in LOPs.” ARE YOU SURE? 8.

  • Page 22: Editing Waypoints On The Wypts/Marks List

    4. Select DSP GOTO or DSP ALL and press 3.5 Deleting Waypoints the [ENT] key. 1. Press the [MENU] key twice. 5. Press the [MENU] key twice to finish. 2. Select ERASE and press the [ENT] key. 3.4 Editing Waypoints on the ERASE WYPTS/MARKS List WAYPOINTS/MARKS?

  • Page 23: Routes

    4. ROUTES In many cases a trip from one place to an- Registering a route other involves several course changes, re- The procedure which follows describes how quiring a series of route points (waypoints) to create a route from two waypoints in Ja- which you navigate to, one after another.

  • Page 24: Editing A Route

    10.Select Exit?. NAME: 001 11. Press the [ENT] key to register the route. 34 39.836'N MARK 135 12.059'E Then, the display shows the names of starting and arrival waypoints next to 12–DEC–97 11:25 route number. Exit? ROUTES [NEW?] Figure 4-6 Waypoint screen KOBE OSAKA 8.
  • Page 25 Inserting a waypoint in a route Temporarily deselecting a waypoint in a route To insert a waypoint in a route, do the fol- lowing: You can temporarily deselect an unneces- sary waypoint from a route. Using the route 1. Press the [MENU] key twice. created in Figure 4-9 as an example, dese- lect the 2nd intermediate waypoint.

  • Page 26: Deleting A Route

    7. Select Exit? and press the [ENT] key. 8. Press the [MENU] key twice to finish. To restore a waypoint to a route, select SKPoFF at step 6. 4.3 Deleting a Route 1. Press the [MENU] key twice. 2. Select ERASE and press the [ENT] key. 3.

  • Page 27: Setting, Cancelling Destination

    5. SETTING, CANCELLING DESTINATION Destination can be set four ways: by cursor, 4. Place the cursor on the location desired by waypoint, by route, and by MOB posi- for destination. tion. Destination cannot be set when there 5. Press the [ENT] key. is no GPS position data.

  • Page 28: Canceling Destination

    5.3 Setting Route as 5.4 Canceling Destination Destination You can cancel destination as follows: 1. Press the [GOTO] key. 1. Press the [GOTO] key. 2. Select ROUTE?. 2. Select OFF?. 3. Press the [ENT] key. 3. Press the [ENT] key. SELECT GOTO ROUTE [NEW?] KOBE...

  • Page 29: Alarms

    6. ALARMS There are four alarm conditions which gen- 6.1 Arrival Alarm, Anchor erate both audible and visual alarms: Arrival Watch Alarm alarm, Anchor watch alarm, Speed alarm, and XTE (Cross Track Error) alarm. You may activate the arrival alarm or the anchor watch alarm;...
  • Page 30 4. The cursor is on the first line of the dis- Anchor watch alarm play. If ARV is already selected, press s The anchor watch alarm sounds to warn you and [ENT], set the alarm range with the that own ship is moving when it should be Cursor Pad and then go to step 6.

  • Page 31: Xte (Cross Track Error) Alarm

    6.2 XTE (Cross Track Error) 6.3 Speed Alarm Alarm The speed alarm sounds when ship’s speed is higher (or lower) the alarm range set. The XTE alarm warns you when own ship is off its intended course. 1. Press the [MENU] key twice. 2.

  • Page 32: Other Functions

    7. OTHER FUNCTIONS 10.Select AUTO or MANU. AUTO uses 7.1 Calculating Range, Bearing ship’s average speed; MANU is for and TTG manual entry of speed. Range and bearing between two 11. Press the [ENT] key. waypoints 12.If you selected MANU, press the [ENT] 1.

  • Page 33: Dgps Setup

    8. Select AUTO or MANU. AUTO uses 4. Select INT for internal DGPS beacon re- ship’s average speed to calculate time- ceiver; EXT for external DGPS beacon to-go; MANU is for manual entry of receiver. Press the [ENT] key. speed. 5.

  • Page 34: Magnetic Variation

    6. If you selected AUTO, no further opera- PLOTTER SETUP tion is necessary, press the [MENU] key twice to finish. For MANU, press the TRACK REC : DISTANCE [ENT] key and enter magnetic variation INTERVAL 0.10 nm BRG. REF. as follows: MAG.

  • Page 35: Units Of Measurement

    5. Press the [ENT] key. 7.6 Units of Measurement 6. Do one of the following: Distance and speed can be displayed in the For Loran C LOP; combinations of nautical miles/knots, kilo- meters/kilometers per hour, or miles/miles a) Press the [ENT] key and enter GRI per hour.

  • Page 36: Gps Setup

    SMOOTH S/C (Smoothing speed/ 7.9 GPS Setup course) The GPS SETUP menu smooths position During position fixing, ship’s velocity and course, averages speed, applies position (speed and course) is directly measured by offset, and deactivates unhealthy satellites. receiving GPS satellite signals. The raw ve- 1.

  • Page 37: Uploading, Downloading Waypoint, Route Data

    7.10 Uploading, Downloading Waypoint, Route Data Waypoint and route data may be downloaded to a PC or upload from a PC to the GP-30/ Wiring GP-35/30 PC/AT PC/AT DSUB 25-pin IN/OUT DSUB 9-pin (EIA-574) (EIA-232) 1 TD 7 (GND) 2 SG (Blue) 5 (GND) 3 (RxD)
  • Page 38 3. Press the [ENT] key. 3. Press the [ENT] key. SAVE WP/RTE LOAD WP/RTE ALL WYPTS/ROUTES LOADING ERASES CUR- WILL BE SAVED TO PC. RENT WP/RTE DATA. SET PC PORT TO 4800 SET PC PORT TO 4800 8 BIT, P-N, S1, XON/XOFF. 8 BIT, P-N, S1, XON/XOFF.
  • Page 39 Waypoint data format PFEC, GPwpl, llll.lll, a, yyyyy.yyy, a, c----c, c, c----c, a, hhmmss, xx, xx, xxxx <CR><LF> 11 12 Figure 7-22 Waypoint data format 1: Waypoint latitude 2: N/S 3: Waypoint longitude 4: E/W 5: Waypoint name (Number of characters is fixed to 6 and space code is placed when the number of characters are less than 6.) 6: Waypoint color (This field is always kept NULL.) 7: Waypoint comment (2 byte for mark code + 16 characters of comment.)
  • Page 40 Route data format $GPRTE, x, x, a, cc, c----c, c----c, ... , c----c <CR><LF> 1 2 3 4 Figure 7-24 Route data format 1: Number of sentences required for one complete route data (1 to 4). See Note. 2: Number of sentences currently used (1 to 4) 3: Message mode (Always set to C).

  • Page 41: Maintenance & Troubleshooting

    8. MAINTENANCE & TROUBLESHOOTING Messages 8.1 Maintenance Table 8-1 Messages and their meanings Check the following points regularly to maintain performance: • Check that connectors on the rear panel are firmly tightened and free of rust. i t t • Check that the ground system is free of rust and the ground wire is tightly fas- i t t tened.

  • Page 42: Self Test

    5. The equipment tests devices, data port, Receive signal level Bars show signal level. beacon receiver, battery and RTC. The Satellites whose signal results are individually displayed as OK level extends past the or NG (No Good). (NONE appears next dashed line are used in fixing position.

  • Page 43: When "Battery Alarm!" Appears

    8.5 When “BATTERY ALARM!” RESTART FOR Appears ERASING DATA. A lithium battery (type: TZ6580553A, code no.: 000-139-051) is installed on the circuit HIT ANY KEY. board inside the display unit and it preserves data when the power is turned off. The life Figure 8-7 Prompt for restarting of the battery is about three years.
  • Page 44 Clearing all backup data When the equipment detects backup data er- ror it displays the message BACKUP DATA ERROR!. In this case it may be necessary to clear all backup data (GPS data, menu settings including waypoints and routes) to restore normal operation.

  • Page 45: Installation

    9. INSTALLATION 9.1 Installation of Display Unit 9.2 Installation of Antenna Unit Mounting considerations Mounting considerations The display unit can be installed on a table- Install the antenna unit referring to the in- top, on the overhead, or in a panel (optional stallation diagram on page D-1.

  • Page 46: Wiring

    9.3 Wiring Grounding The display unit contains a CPU. While it is The figure below shows where to connect operating, it radiates noise, which can inter- cables on the rear of the display unit. fere with radio equipment. Ground the unit Ground terminal as follows to prevent interference: (Run ground wire...

  • Page 52: Dgps Reference Stations

    DGPS REFERENCE STATIONS The following table shows the updated DGPS reference stations (as of May 1998), including the expected stations. Location Freq. Latitude Longitude MSK Rate Country ALEXANDRIA 305 N38.45 W77.07 100 VA,USA ANNETTE ISLAND 323 N55.04 W131.36 100 AK,USA APPLETON 300 N45.47 W121.19...
  • Page 53 Location Freq. Latitude Longitude MSK Rate Country PT BLUNT 310 N37.51 W122.25 200 CA,USA PT LOMA 302 N32.40 W117.15 100 CA,USA REEDY POINT 309 N39.34 W75.34 200 DE,USA ROBINSON PT 323 N47.23 W122.23 200 WA,USA ROCK ISLAND 311 N42.00 W90.14 200 IA,USA SAGINAW BAY 301 N43.38...
  • Page 54 Location Freq. Latitude Longitude MSK Rate Country OOSTENDE PHARE 311.5 N51.14 E02.55 100 BELGIUM BLAAVANDS HUK 296.5 N55.34 E08.05 100 DENMARK HAMMERODDE 289 N55.18 E14.46 100 DENMARK SKAGEN 298.5 N57.44 E10.35 100 DENMARK RISTNA LT 307 N58.56 E22.04 100 ESTONIA MANTYLUOTO 298 N61.36 E21.28...
  • Page 55 Location Freq. Latitude Longitude MSK Rate Country UTSIRA 307 N59.19 E04.52 100 NORWAY UTVAER 300 N61.02 E04.31 100 NORWAY VARDOE 307 N70.23 E31.09 100 NORWAY DZIWNOW 288 N54.01 E14.44 100 POLAND ROZEWIE 311 N54.49 E18.20 100 POLAND CABO DE LA NAO 284.5 N38.44 E00.14 0 SPAIN...
  • Page 56 Location Freq. (kHz) Latitude Longitude MSK Rate Country ABASHIRI 309 N44.00 E144.18 200 JAPAN INUBOSAKI 288 N34.17 E136.54 200 JAPAN ESAKI 320.5 N34.36 E135.00 200 JAPAN HAMADA 305 N34.53 E132.02 200 JAPAN HACHIJOJIMA 302 N33.05 E139.51 200 JAPAN HEKURAJIMA 295 N37.51 E136.55 200 JAPAN INUBOZAKI...
  • Page 57 Location Freq. (kHz) Latitude Longitude MSK Rate Country 317.5 S36.22 W60.03 100 ARGENTINA SAN BERNARDO 297.5 S31.58 W60.55 100 ARGENTINA SAN CARLOS CENTRO AFRICA 291.5 N56.11 E163.21 100 RUSSIA ALEVINA 303.5 N58.50 E151.21 100 RUSSIA ANAPSKY 315.5 N44.53 E37.18 100 RUSSIA ANDREA 291.5 N76.44 E110.27...

  • Page 58: Loran C Chains

    LORAN C CHAINS c i f c i f c i f c i f Ø t l y A-11...

  • Page 59: Decca Chains

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