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4.5 Activating Targets.......................................................................................................4-6
4.5.1 Activating specific target..................................................................................4-6
4.5.2 Activating all targets ........................................................................................4-6
4.6 Sleeping Targets........................................................................................................ 4-7
4.6.1 Sleeping an AIS target.....................................................................................4-7
4.6.2 Sleeping all AIS targets ................................................................................... 4-7
4.7 Displaying Target Data...............................................................................................4-8
4.7.1 Basic data ....................................................................................................... 4-8
4.7.2 Detailed target data......................................................................................... 4-9
4.8 AIS Symbol Attributes..............................................................................................4-10
4.8.1 AIS symbol brilliance..................................................................................... 4-10
4.8.2 AIS symbol size and color ............................................................................. 4-11
4.9 Past Position Display...............................................................................................4-12
4.9.1 Displaying and erasing past position points, choosing past position
plot interval.................................................................................................... 4-12
4.9.2 Past position display attributes...................................................................... 4-13
4.10 Lost Target...............................................................................................................4-14
4.11 ROT Setting.............................................................................................................4-15
4.12 Fusion of ARP and AIS Targets................................................................................ 4-16
4.13 Own Ship’s Data......................................................................................................4-18
4.14 Messages................................................................................................................ 4-19
4.14.1 Creating, saving a message..........................................................................4-19
4.14.2 Transmitting a message ................................................................................4-20
4.14.3 Viewing AIS messages..................................................................................4-21
4.15 AIS System Messages.............................................................................................4-23
5. VIDEO PLOTTER OPERATION.................................................................... 5-1
5.1 General......................................................................................................................5-1
5.2 Display Modes...........................................................................................................5-1
5.3 Presentation Modes...................................................................................................5-2
5.4 Radar Map.................................................................................................................5-3
5.4.1 Turning on the radar map display ....................................................................5-3
5.4.2 Inscribing radar map marks and lines.............................................................. 5-4
5.5 Erasing Radar Map Marks and Lines.........................................................................5-6
5.5.1 Erasing individual radar map marks and lines .................................................5-6
5.5.2 Erasing all radar map marks and lines.............................................................5-7
5.6 Radar Map Corrections..............................................................................................5-8
5.6.1 Radar map correction......................................................................................5-8
5.6.2 Cursor data correction.....................................................................................5-8
5.7 Chart Cards (B, C and W types) ................................................................................5-9
5.7.1 Displaying a chart............................................................................................ 5-9
5.7.2 Chart position correction................................................................................5-10
5.7.3 Correcting cursor data...................................................................................5-10
5.7.4 Chart land color............................................................................................. 5-11
5.8 Hiding/Showing Graphics on the Video Plotter Display ............................................5-12
5.9 Track........................................................................................................................5-13
5.9.1 Plotting own ship’s track................................................................................ 5-13
5.9.2 Plotting other ships’ track (A, B, C and W types)............................................5-14