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Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries

All Rights Reserved

Except as expressly provided herein, no part of this manual may be reproduced, copied, 
transmitted, disseminated, downloaded or stored in any storage medium, for any purpose 
without the express prior written consent of Garmin.  Garmin hereby grants permission to 
download a single copy of this manual and of any revision to this manual onto a hard drive or 
other electronic storage medium to be viewed and to print one copy of this manual or of any 
revision hereto, provided that such electronic or printed copy of this manual or revision must 
contain the complete text of this copyright notice and provided further that any unauthorized 
commercial distribution of this manual or any revision hereto is strictly prohibited.

This manual is written for software version 5.00 or later, and is not suitable for earlier software 
versions.  Some differences in operation may be observed when comparing the information in 
this manual to later software versions.

Software License Agreement

BY USING THE GTX 328, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS 
OF THE FOLLOWING SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT.  PLEASE READ THIS 
AGREEMENT CAREFULLY.

Garmin grants you a limited license to use the software embedded in this device (the 
“Software”) in binary executable form in the normal operation of the product.  Title, ownership 
rights and intellectual property rights in and to the Software remain in Garmin.

You acknowledge that the Software is the property of Garmin and is protected under the 
United States of America copyright laws and international copyright treaties.  You further 
acknowledge that the structure, organization and code of the Software are valuable trade 
secrets of Garmin and that the Software in source code form remains a valuable trade secret of 
Garmin.  You agree not to decompile, disassemble, modify, reverse assemble, reverse engineer 
or reduce to human readable form the Software or any part thereof or create any derivative 
works based on the Software.  You agree not to export or re-export the Software to any country 
in violation of the export control laws of the United States of America.

 

CAUTION: 

The GTX 328 should be turned off before starting or shutting 

down aircraft engine(s).

   

NOTE: 

Contact a Garmin dealer for software updates.

January 2007 

Part Number 190-00420-03 Rev. A 

Printed in USA

Summary of Contents for 328

Page 1: ...Mode S Transponder pilot s guide GTX 328 ...

Page 2: ... BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE FOLLOWING SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY Garmin grants you a limited license to use the software embedded in this device the Software in binary executable form in the normal operation of the product Title ownership rights and intellectual property rights in and to the Software remain in Garmin You acknowledge that the Softw...

Page 3: ...UCT OR FROM DEFECTS IN THE PRODUCT Some states do not allow the exclusion of incidental or consequential damages so the above limitations may not apply to you Garmin retains the exclusive right to repair or replace the unit or software or offer a full refund of the purchase price at its sole discretion SUCH REMEDY SHALL BE YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY FOR ANY BREACH OF WARRANTY To obtain warrant...

Page 4: ...ure The ALT mode may be selected in aircraft not equipped with an optional altitude encoder however the reply signal will not include altitude information Any time the function ON or ALT is selected the transponder becomes an active part of the Air Traffic Control Radar Beacon System ATCRBS The transponder also responds to interrogations from TCAS equipped aircraft Code Selection Code selection is ...

Page 5: ...e factory Pressing the VFR Key again restores the previous identification code If the VFR Key is disabled dependent upon installation configuration a VFR Key Disabled message appears to indicate that no operation took place FUNC Changes the page shown on the right side of the display Display data includes Pressure Altitude Flight Time Altitude Monitor Count Up and Count Down timers Also displays Out...

Page 6: ...CLR and CRSR keys The initial Count Down time is entered with the 0 9 keys CONTRAST This page is only displayed if manual contrast mode is selected during installation configuration Contrast is controlled by the 8 and 9 keys DISPLAY This page is only displayed if manual backlighting mode is selected during installation configuration Backlighting is controlled by the 8 and 9 keys Altitude Trend Indic...

Page 7: ...timer to zero To operate the Count Down timer 1 Press the FUNC Key until COUNT DOWN is displayed 2 Press CRSR and use the 0 9 keys to set the initial time All digits must be entered use the 0 Key to enter leading zeros 3 Press START STOP to begin count down 4 Press START STOP again to pause the timer 5 When the Count Down timer expires the COUNT DOWN banner is replaced with a flashing EXPIRED and t...

Page 8: ...nfiguration alteration of the FLT ID by the flight crew is not possible Entering a Flight ID Number When configured for FLT ID PWR UP ENTRY at installation the flight crew must enter the Flight ID before the GTX 328 will operate After the flight crew enters the correct Flight ID the aircraft identification that is transmitted in response to ATC radar interrogations is properly correlated with the associ...

Page 9: ... FLT ID When FLT ID entry is complete the transponder begins normal operation If an error is made while entering a FLT ID press the CLR Key to back up to any point including highlighting the OK field If an incorrect FLT ID is discovered after the unit begins operation turn the GTX 328 off Then turn it back on again and reenter the correct FLT ID Audio Alerts Setting options male female voice or ton...

Page 10: ...l Inc 1200 East 151st Street Olathe Kansas 66062 U S A Garmin Europe Ltd Unit 5 The Quadrangle Abbey Park Industrial Estate Romsey SO51 9AQ U K Garmin Corporation No 68 Jangshu 2nd Road Shijr Taipei County Taiwan www garmin com Part Number 190 00420 03 Rev A ...

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