Magellan GPS Tracker, User Manual

Page 1: ...User Manual GPS Tracker...

Page 2: ...WARE like any other copyright material You may not use copy modify reverse engineer or transfer this SOFT WARE except as expressly provided in this license All rights not expressly granted are reserve...

Page 3: ...User Manual GPS Tracker...

Page 4: ...fixes can be affected by the periodic adjustments to GPS satellites made by the U S Government and is subject to change in accordance with the Department of Defense civil GPS user policy and the Feder...

Page 5: ...racker Receiver 4 Using the Keypad 5 Installing the Batteries 6 Using your GPS Tracker 7 Proper Handling Signal Reception 7 Clear View of the Sky 7 Holding the Receiver 8 First Time Use Initializing t...

Page 6: ...n 17 Customizing the NAV 1 Screen 18 Using the Compass Screen 19 Customizing the Compass Screen 20 Using the NAV 2 Screen 21 Customizing the NAV 2 Screen 21 Using the Plot Screen 22 Selecting PAN N SC...

Page 7: ...king with Waypoints 33 Editing a Waypoint 33 Editing a Selected Waypoint 33 Editing Waypoint Fields 33 Creating Editing Deleting a Message in a Waypoint 34 Saving Changes to the Selected Waypoint 34 P...

Page 8: ...y Functions 45 Working with Sun Moon and Fish Hunt 45 Selecting the Simulate Mode 46 Selecting Contrast 47 Selecting Alarm Message 47 Accessing the Alarm Message Menu 47 Selecting Anchor Alarm 48 Sele...

Page 9: ...ting the Beeper 58 Selecting Personalize 59 Selecting Clear Memory 59 Selecting NMEA 60 Selecting Baud Rate 60 Troubleshooting 61 Commonly Asked Questions 62 Contacting Magellan 63 NMEA Data Messages...

Page 10: ...vi Accessories 77 Antenna Removal 78 Glossary 79 Index 83...

Page 11: ...tracking Designed with both the Outdoor and Marine enthusiasts in mind the GPS Tracker is ideal for hiking mapping fishing hotspots marking trails or charting courses over bodies of water or land To h...

Page 12: ...this manual is designed to assist you in the use of your GPS Tracker Each topic in the reference section includes a brief description of the activity chosen and a detailed description with sample scre...

Page 13: ...ium back up battery will keep the receiver s memory active for up to 10 years Receiver Accuracy The satellite constellation that provides the GPS information your receiver uses is maintained by the De...

Page 14: ...4 Magellan GPS Tracker GPS Tracker Receiver Display ENTER key GOTO key MENU key POWER key ARROW PAD LIGHT key MARK key NAV key QUIT key Water Seal Battery Caps Detachable Quadrifilar Antenna...

Page 15: ...creens menus and enters alphanumeric information Up Down Arrows scroll through the alphanumeric characters Right Left Arrows page through menus and adjust the scale on the Plot and Compass screens NAV...

Page 16: ...ries into the battery tubes with the positive end first two batteries in each side and screw the battery caps until securely closed It is recommended that four batteries be used however in case of an...

Page 17: ...ference point to select which satellites to use Inputting the initial position time and date is called initializing your receiver which will save you time Initializing enables the receiver to begin tr...

Page 18: ...iles while turned off Turn the Receiver On To turn your GPS Tracker on press PWR Because this is the first time you have used your receiver a screen will be displayed prompting you to initialize your...

Page 19: ...now your elevation press ENTER If this is not the first time you have used your receiver or if it is the first time but your receiver has already begun acquiring satellite signals time and date may ha...

Page 20: ...racker uses while in land or marine mode For purposes of this manual it will be assumed that the receiver is in the marine mode Land Marine Speed SPD SOG Bearing BRG BRG Distance DST DST Heading HDG C...

Page 21: ...current position you may save this position as a waypoint To save MARK your position as a waypoint press MARK MARK and the waypoint will be saved with an automatically assigned name If this is your fi...

Page 22: ...is pressed a menu will be displayed with the waypoint that you just saved we are using WPT001 as an example Use the UP DOWN ARROWs to highlight WPT001 and press ENTER The receiver will begin calculati...

Page 23: ...sition fix Navigation Screens The nine NAV navigation screens STATUS POSITION NAV 1 COM PASS NAV 2 PLOT ROAD SPEED and TIME provide you with neces sary information you will need to use the GPS Tracker...

Page 24: ...al strengths on the Satellite Signal Chart On the Satellite Position Graph and the Satellite Signal Chart satellites displayed in dark gray are for weak signal strengths black for satellites of strong...

Page 25: ...at can be changed to accommodate the environment that you are in This enables the user to calibrate the temperature creating an offset from the factory setting After selecting TEMP CALIB from the STAT...

Page 26: ...e UTM coordinates Automatic Averaging in the POSITION Screen Automatic averaging gives you greater position accuracy When navigating your GPS Tracker takes position fixes however when you are stationa...

Page 27: ...rection Ideally when you are navigating the Position Icon and the Destination Icon should line up one above the other Position Icon Destination Name Destination Icon Selectable Navigation Data Using t...

Page 28: ...ENTER You are presented with a pop up menu from which you can make your selection Use the UP DOWN ARROWs to highlight your choice and press ENTER You will return to the NAV 1 screen still in the cust...

Page 29: ...e The CDI Scale indicates your distance left or right of the courseline Position Icon CDI Scale L R arrows to change Destination Name Destination Icon Sun Icon Steering Indicator to Destination Moon I...

Page 30: ...se from BRG DST SOG COG VMG CTS TMP and Blank To customize your COMPASS screen press MENU while viewing the COMPASS screen Highlight CUSTOMIZE and press ENTER Use the UP DOWN ARROWs to select the fiel...

Page 31: ...TMP and Blank To customize your NAV 2 screen press MENU while viewing the NAV 2 screen Highlight CUSTOMIZE and press ENTER Use the UP DOWN ARROWs to select the field you want to change and press ENTE...

Page 32: ...g is displayed by a line indicating the direction required in order to reach your destination The plot scale appears at the bottom of the screen and can be changed by using the RIGHT LEFT ARROWs An ad...

Page 33: ...eveal the menu screen If the cursor is over a waypoint when MENU is pressed the menu will be displayed with WPT INFO added to the list Displaying Waypoint Information As you navigate using PAN N SCAN...

Page 34: ...U Highlight TRACK HIST and press ENTER You are presented with a pop up menu from which you can make your selection Use the UP DOWN ARROWs to highlight your choice and press ENTER You will return to th...

Page 35: ...Turning Plot Rings On or Off When navigating you may want to know the distance you will travel to reach a certain destination To find out you can turn the PLOT RINGS option on While viewing the PLOT...

Page 36: ...the top of the screen as well as a display to show your position on the desired route Navigation Data Destination Icon Desired Route Position Icon At the top of the screen the destination name is dis...

Page 37: ...f HIDE WPTS is chosen you are returned to the ROAD screen Customizing the Road Screen You can change the four navigational fields You can choose from BRG DST SOG COG VMG CTS TMP and Blank To customize...

Page 38: ...ometer You may want to reset the Odometer field to zero While viewing the SPEED screen press MENU highlight ODOM RESET to zero and press ENTER A pop up window will appear Select YES or NO and press EN...

Page 39: ...highlight TRIP RESET and press ENTER A pop up window will appear Highlight YES or NO and press ENTER Setting the Speed Average You may want to reset the Speed Average field in your receiver You can c...

Page 40: ...y to save your position To save a waypoint with a receiver created name press MARK MARK The waypoint will be saved with a receiver generated name beginning with WPT001 WPT002 and so on Selecting Time...

Page 41: ...recorded position that can be used in a route or a GOTO You can save up to 500 waypoints in your GPS Tracker and refer back to them at any time as long as the waypoints have been saved Press MARK To...

Page 42: ...right indicates the approximate position on the waypoint list You are returned to the last viewed NAV screen The name of the waypoint is at the top of the screen with navigation information that you c...

Page 43: ...s MENU highlight WAYPOINTS and press ENTER Highlight the waypoint you wish to edit and press ENTER Press MENU highlight EDIT WPT and press ENTER Editing Waypoint Fields Following the instructions on s...

Page 44: ...ow the instructions on selecting a waypoint Use the DOWN ARROW to scroll to the message and press ENTER to turn the cursor on and use the ARROWs to input your changes When your message is complete pre...

Page 45: ...ge any of the four sections in the PROJECTION screen The FROM data field can be changed to your current position or to any saved waypoint A pop up window appears when ENTER is pressed when the FROM wa...

Page 46: ...conds to complete Deleting a Waypoint You may find that you have too many saved waypoints that you no longer use In this case you can delete these unnecessary waypoints Once these waypoints are delete...

Page 47: ...e which guides you from your current position to any waypoint in the receiver s memory As an example you can save a waypoint at your home No matter where you go you will always be able to navigate bac...

Page 48: ...e deleted Creating a Backtrack Route Backtrack creates a route that starts from the last point recorded in track history using the bread crumbs saved to the first point recorded for track history By f...

Page 49: ...d Press ENTER to display your list of waypoints Highlight the first waypoint for your route and press ENTER The receiver will display the selected waypoint in the starting location and will highlight...

Page 50: ...waypoint that you want to insert a leg before and press MENU Highlight INSERT and press ENTER A list of waypoints will appear highlight the waypoint you want to insert and press ENTER Changing a Waypo...

Page 51: ...ARROWs to highlight the first dotted line of the route and press ENTER A list of waypoints will appear highlight the waypoint you want to add to the end of your route and press ENTER Deleting a Waypo...

Page 52: ...egin navigating Press MENU and select ROUTES Highlight the route that you wish to activate press MENU and highlight ACTIVATE Activat ing a route will automatically deactivate any other route or GOTO W...

Page 53: ...our route you can view the entire route in a small screen overview with the use of Plot View Press MENU highlight ROUTES and press ENTER Highlight the route that you wish to view press MENU highlight...

Page 54: ...XXXX is between 0 to 1200 As you navigate with the receiver and pass indi vidual track points the legs will switch and countdown until you reach LEG 0 which is your final destination There may be som...

Page 55: ...to allow you to change the location and date To change the location highlight the AT field and press ENTER to display your saved waypoints Highlight your choice and press ENTER To change the date hig...

Page 56: ...mode To begin press MENU from any NAV screen highlight SETUP and press ENTER The SETUP menu will appear Highlight SIMULATE and press ENTER A pop up window will be displayed giving a list of options c...

Page 57: ...hen your anchored boat has drifted Arrival alarm which will notify you when you are within the arrival circle of your destination XTE alarm which will notify you when you have gone off course and Prox...

Page 58: ...f or the condition is corrected The default is OFF Selecting Arrival Alarm The Arrival alarm will notify you when you are within the arrival circle of the destination waypoint While viewing the Alarm...

Page 59: ...chosen The alarm will sound until you turn it off or the condition is corrected The default is OFF Selecting Proximity Alarm The Proximity alarm will sound when you are within the proximity of any way...

Page 60: ...sound and a pop up window will appear when the GPS position is within the proximity distance you have chosen The pop up window will display the proximity distance as well as any message you have input...

Page 61: ...select YES or NO and press ENTER Clearing Alarm Messages The message buffer may become cluttered with information You can use the CLR MSG to delete the messages While viewing the Alarm MSG menu highli...

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Page 63: ...need to reinitialize if you have travelled more than 300 miles while the receiver is turned off To reinitialize press MENU highlight SETUP and press ENTER The Setup Menu will appear highlight INITIALI...

Page 64: ...Coordinate System A Coordinate System is provided for you This option allows you to select primary and secondary coordinates used for entering and viewing position information The most common is LAT L...

Page 65: ...map legend to determine the datum required for the map or chart If you are not using a map or chart or are unsure which datum to use select WGS84 Press MENU from any screen highlight SETUP and press...

Page 66: ...HR LOCAL AM PM and UTC Press MENU from any screen highlight SETUP and press ENTER Highlight TIME FORMAT and press ENTER A pop up menu will be displayed highlight your choice and press ENTER If UTC is...

Page 67: ...he United States Default setting is NM KNOTS for marine use Selecting North Reference The GPS Tracker uses magnetic north as a default reference for all navigation computations You can change this to...

Page 68: ...r 30 seconds This process will continue until you press the light key again to turn the light off or turn the receiver off Press MENU from any screen highlight SETUP and press ENTER Highlight LIGHT TI...

Page 69: ...s well as reset defaults to the factory defaults There is also an option to delete everything in the receiver s memory Use caution when accessing the Clear Memory function Once you have deleted you ca...

Page 70: ...ting Baud Rate Connection to external devices requires that the baud rate of the data being sent or received by the GPS Tracker be matched to the baud rate of the external device Your choices are 1200...

Page 71: ...the Department of Defense called Selective Availability SA can cause the elevation values to fluctuate Battery life seems shorter than it should be 1 Make sure that you are using four AA alkaline bat...

Page 72: ...e no higher than 59 00 59 inputting a number higher than 59 while in deg min sec results in an error and the receiver does not accept the entry Can I use NiCad batteries in my GPS Tracker Yes However...

Page 73: ...Service at 800 707 9971 or via e mail at tracker mgln com Representatives are available Monday through Friday from 7 AM to 5 PM PST Faxes can be sent to Customer Service at 909 394 7070 If necessary y...

Page 74: ...nitions APA Autopilot cross track error direction to steer status of GPS route status destination waypoint name and bearing from origin to destination old format APB Revised autopilot message contains...

Page 75: ...and which passes through the destination waypoint 8 9 Bearing dest WPT from origin WPT Magnetic 10 Dest WPT identifier BWC To Selected Waypoint Great Circle 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 BWC XXXXXX XXXX...

Page 76: ...Sentence B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 APB A A x x a N A A x x a c c x x a x x a hh 1 Status A Data valid V Loran C Blink or SNR warning V general warning flag for other navigation systems when a...

Page 77: ...iew 8 Horizontal dilution of precision 9 Antenna altitude above below mean sea level 10 Units of antenna altitude meters 11 Geoidal separation difference between the WGS 84 earth ellipsoid and mean se...

Page 78: ...age Total number of messages being transmitted and the number of messages being transmitted is indicated in the first two fields 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910 11 GSV x x xx xx xx xxx xx xx xx xxx xx hh CR LF 1...

Page 79: ...ival OR ed arrival circle and crossing of line which is perpendicular to the course line and which passes through the destination waypoint 14 CHECKSUM Mandatory in this sentence RMC Transit Specific t...

Page 80: ...9 GANDA Gandajika Base GEO49 Geodetic Datum 1949 GHANA GRB36 Ordinance Survey of GB 1936 GUAM Guam GUNSG G Segara GUNSR HAWAI Hawaii HERAT Herat North HJORS Hjorsey 1955 HUTZU Hu tzu shan INDIA Indian...

Page 81: ...ned off Velocity 0 1 knot RMS steady state with Selective Availability turned off Limits Speed 951 mph Altitude 17 500 meters Physical Size 6 88 x 2 5 x 1 1 h x w x d 16 cm x 6 5 cm x 3 5 cm Weight 12...

Page 82: ...ude Specifically a position is up to 90 degrees north or south of the equator up to the poles which are 90 N and 90 S the equator is 0 latitude and up to 180 degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian...

Page 83: ...29 31 32 33 34 36 37 38 39 41 42 43 44 46 47 48 49 51 52 53 54 56 57 58 59 Other Coordinate Systems OSGB coordinates are similar to UTMs but they describe only Great Britain They must be used with th...

Page 84: ...an access Standard Position ing Service SPS code All commercial and consumer GPS receivers are SPS receivers How Does GPS Work Each GPS satellite transmits its precise location position and elevation...

Page 85: ...of any SPS receiver The size of the error changes but rarely exceeds 100 meters The DoD civil GPS under policy is that GPS accuracy as affected by SA is sufficient for general navigation In an open en...

Page 86: ...9 GANDA Gandajika Base GEO49 Geodetic Datum 1949 GHANA GRB36 Ordinance Survey of GB 1936 GUAM Guam GUNSG G Segara GUNSR HAWAI Hawaii HERAT Herat North HJORS Hjorsey 1955 HUTZU Hu tzu shan INDIA Indian...

Page 87: ...ned off Velocity 0 1 knot RMS steady state with Selective Availability turned off Limits Speed 951 mph Altitude 17 500 meters Physical Size 6 88 x 2 5 x 1 1 h x w x d 16 cm x 6 5 cm x 3 5 cm Weight 12...

Page 88: ...ude Specifically a position is up to 90 degrees north or south of the equator up to the poles which are 90 N and 90 S the equator is 0 latitude and up to 180 degrees east or west of the Prime Meridian...

Page 89: ...29 31 32 33 34 36 37 38 39 41 42 43 44 46 47 48 49 51 52 53 54 56 57 58 59 Other Coordinate Systems OSGB coordinates are similar to UTMs but they describe only Great Britain They must be used with th...

Page 90: ...an access Standard Position ing Service SPS code All commercial and consumer GPS receivers are SPS receivers How Does GPS Work Each GPS satellite transmits its precise location position and elevation...

Page 91: ...of any SPS receiver The size of the error changes but rarely exceeds 100 meters The DoD civil GPS under policy is that GPS accuracy as affected by SA is sufficient for general navigation In an open en...

Page 92: ...g to the operation of your Magellan GPS receiver call Magellan at 800 707 9971 and ask for Technical Support General information on the Global Positioning System and satellite status is available from...

Page 93: ...Power Data Cable Allows you to connect your GPS Tracker to external power external alarm and data External Power Cable with Cigarette Lighter Adapter Allows you to connect the GPS Tracker to a cigaret...

Page 94: ...receiver in one hand and rotate the antenna to the stop at the 1 o clock position as shown below Firmly grip the antenna and pull it away from the receiver To replace the antenna Remove any external a...

Page 95: ...be reported in true or magnetic north values Coordinates A unique numeric or alphanumeric description of the position CTS Course to Steer The direction you should be travelling in order to return to t...

Page 96: ...LON Coordinate system using latitude and longitude coordinates to define a position on the earth Leg Route A segment of a route that has a starting FROM waypoint and a destination TO waypoint A route...

Page 97: ...o The measurement of how long it will take you to arrive at your destination TTG is based on how fast you are moving towards the destination and the distance remaining UTC Universal Time Coordinated F...

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Page 99: ...er 58 C Clear Memory 59 Coordinate System 72 selecting 54 viewing secondary 16 Contrast 47 Cross Track Error XTE 10 18 21 alarm 49 Course over Ground COG 17 19 20 21 26 27 Course Projection 25 Custome...

Page 100: ...Projecting a Waypoint 35 Power On 8 13 R Reception 7 Route 37 activating deactivat ing a route 42 adding a waypoint at the end of a route 41 changing a waypoint in a route 40 creating clearing 37 dele...

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