GPSMAP 5000 Series Owner’s Manual
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Digital Selective Calling
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For information on placing distress calls from your radio, see your
Garmin VHF Radio Owner’s
Manual
. For information on activating navigation to a man-overboard location, see
.
Position Tracking
When you connect your Garmin chartplotter to a VHF radio using NMEA 0183, you can track
vessels that send position reports. This feature is also available with NMEA 2000, provided that the
vessel sends the correct PGN data (PGN 129808; DSC Call Information).
Every position report call received is logged in the DSC list (
).
To view a list of position reports:
1. From the Home screen, touch
Information
>
DSC List
.
2. Select an item from the list, and then select
Review
for the following options:
Select
Call with Radio
to set up an individual routine call (
) with the radio to call the
vessel that sent the position report. This option is only available if you are using a Garmin
NMEA 2000-compatible VHF radio.
Select
Edit
to edit the vessel name and add a comment. If your radio is tracking the position
of the vessel, touch
Trail
to show or hide the trail line for the vessel, and touch
Trail Line
to
change the line color.
Select
Clear Report
to delete the call report.
Select
Navigate To
to Go To or Route To the location sent with the position report (
).
Select
Create Waypoint
to set a waypoint at the location sent with the position report.
Select
Next Page
or
Previous Page
to toggle between details of the position report and a
Navigation chart marking the location.
Configuring Vessel Trails on the Navigation Chart
If you have your chartplotter configured to show trails, the Navigation chart displays a black dot
for each reported position, a black line indicating the path of the vessel, and a Blue Flag symbol
indicating the last reported position.
Vessel trail
Last-reported
vessel position
Position-report
location
Vessel Trail
To set the duration of displayed trail points:
1. From a chart screen, touch
Menu
>
Other Vessels
>
DSC
>
DSC Trails
.
2. Select the number of hours to show tracked vessels on the Navigation chart. For example, if you
select
4 Hours
, all trail points (less than four hours old) for tracked vessels are displayed.
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