Cobra Electronics MC 600Ci GPS Receiver User Manual


 
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Owner's Manual
4.4. USING TRACK
A very useful feature of the chartplotter, is the ability to store and display
exactly where the boat has been. This feature, referred to as Tracking, can
provide invaluable information about the effect of Tide and wind influence on
the boat's progress as well as giving an indication of the helmsman's
performance. When full storing capacity has been reached, the oldest points
are deleted and overwritten by the newest ones.
To select the Track operations follow the procedure:
1. Press the MENU button from one of the CHART Pages, select “TRACKS”
and press the ENTER button.
2. A new Menu window is shown on the screen.
Use the UP or DOWN CURSOR button to select the desired row. The
following operations are available:
This feature is sometimes known as trail or breadcrumb trail.
“ACTIVE TRACK”: Selects the number of the active Track. The default
setting is 1.
“TRACKING”: Turns ON or OFF the Track storing. It is not possible to use
the Track storing if you are not receiving a valid fix. The default setting is On.
“VISIBLE”: Turns ON or OFF the displaying of Track. The default setting is
Off.
“COLOR”: Selects the desired color among the sixteen colors available
for the selected Track.
“DELETE”: Deletes the whole Track. After pressing the ENTER button a
warning window appears: press the Y
ES
software button to confirm (press
the N
O
software button otherwise).
“STEP UNIT”: Selects the desired step unit among DISTance (the
chartplotter can store a fix when the distance from its last stored position is
Using Track