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Magellan NAV 6500/NAV 6510 55
Press the Aux softkey, use the CURSOR KEY to highlight
Calculator and press ENTER.
Calculating Sunrise/Sunset and Lunar Information
Use the CURSOR KEY to highlight Sunrise/Sunset Lunar
and press ENTER.
Highlight Location and press ENTER to access the Find
Waypoint function which allows you to enter the name of
a waypoint.
Use the CURSOR KEY to change the location if desired.
Press ENTER to confirm.
When the unit is first turned on, the default
setting for location is POS which is the last
computed position, however, the field does not
return to this value unless the unit is turned off.
Use the CURSOR KEY to highlight Date and press ENTER
to display the date window.
Use the CURSOR KEY to change the date to something other
than the present date, if desired, and press ENTER.
Once the date is selected, the sunrise/sunset times and lunar
phase information are recalculated and displayed.
Press ESC.
Calculating Actual Current
Use the CURSOR KEY to access the Actual Current win-
dow and press ENTER.
If your receiver is not connected to an external instrument
(i.e. External Instrument is off), the highlight moves to
the Speed Log field.
Press ENTER to display the Speed Log window.
Use the CURSOR KEY to change the speed and press EN-
TER.
Highlight Heading and press ENTER to display the Head-
ing window.
Use the CURSOR KEY to change the heading value and
press ENTER.
The Current Speed (Drift) and Current Direction (Set) are
recalculated and displayed.
External Instrument is automatically turned ON
when NMEA input is selected in Data Port Setup.
In this case the Speed Log and Heading cannot be
changed manually since they are received as input.
The receiver accepts the VHW (log speed and compass head-
ing), VBW (log speed), HDM (magnetic compass heading),
HDT (true heading reading) and HDG (magnetic compass