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OPERATOR'S MANUAL

DUAL-FREQUENCY
SEARCHLIGHT SONAR

Model CH-300

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All rights reserved. Printed in Japan A : APR . 2005

D : APR . 16, 2013
Pub. No. OME-13250-D
(ETMI ) CH-300

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IMPORTANT NOTICES
General
• This manual has been authored with simplified grammar, to meet the needs of
international users.
• The operator of this equipment must read and follow the descriptions in this manual.
Wrong operation or maintenance can cancel the warranty or cause injury.
• Do not copy any part of this manual without written permission from FURUNO.
• If this manual is lost or worn, contact your dealer about replacement.
• The contents of this manual and equipment specifications can change without notice.
• The example screens (or illustrations) shown in this manual can be different from the
screens you see on your display. The screens you see depend on your system
configuration and equipment settings.
• Save this manual for future reference.
• Any modification of the equipment (including software) by persons not authorized by
FURUNO will cancel the warranty.
• All brand and product names are trademarks, registered trademarks or service marks of
their respective holders.
How to discard this product
Discard this product according to local regulations for the disposal of industrial waste. For
disposal in the USA, see the homepage of the Electronics Industries Alliance
(http://www.eiae.org/) for the correct method of disposal.
How to discard a used battery
Some FURUNO products have a battery(ies). To see if your product has a battery, see the
chapter on Maintenance. Follow the instructions below if a battery is used. Tape the + and -
terminals of battery before disposal to prevent fire, heat generation caused by short circuit.
In the European Union
The crossed-out trash can symbol indicates that all types of
batteries must not be discarded in standard trash, or at a trash
site. Take the used batteries to a battery collection site
according to your national legislation and the Batteries Directive
2006/66/EU. Cd
In the USA
The Mobius loop symbol (three chasing arrows) indicates that
Ni-Cd and lead-acid rechargeable batteries must be recycled.
Take the used batteries to a battery collection site according to
local laws. Ni-Cd Pb
In the other countries
There are no international standards for the battery recycle symbol. The number of symbols
can increase when the other countries make their own recycling symbols in the future.

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 SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

WARNING WARNING
ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD Keep heater away from equipment.
Do not open the equipment.
A heater can melt the equipment's power
Only qualified personnel cord, which can cause fire or electrical
should work inside the shock.
equipment.
Use the proper fuse.
Immediately turn off the power at the
switchboard if water leaks into the The fuse in the hull and transceiver units
equipment or something is dropped in protects them from overvoltage, equipment
the equipment. fault and reverse polarity of the ship's
mains. If a fuse blows replace it with fuse of
Continued use of the equipment can cause the same amperage. Use of a wrong fuse
fire or electrical shock. Contact a FURUNO can result in damage to the equipment.
agent for service.
Retract the transducer before turning
Do not disassemble or modify the off the power.
equipment.
Damage to the equipment may result.
Fire, electrical shock or serious injury can Wait until the transducer retraction switch
result. [↑] lights steadily and then turn off the power.

Immediately turn off the power at the

switchboard if the equipment is emitting
smoke or fire.

Continued use of the equipment can cause

fire or electrical shock. Contact a FURUNO
agent for service.

Make sure no rain or water splash leaks

into the equipment.

Fire or electrical shock can result if water

leaks in the equipment.

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 CAUTION CAUTION
Do not exceed 20 knots when operating Set the gain properly.
the equipment and do not exceed 15
knots when lowering or raising the No picture appears if the gain setting is
transducer. too low, and noise appears when the gain
is too high. If the gain is set improperly,
The transducer may become damaged. the depth indication may be wrong,
resulting in a potentially dangerous situation
Do not use the equipment for other if the vessel is navigated by monitoring
than its intended purpose. the depth indication.

Use of the equipment as a stepping stool,

for example, may result in personal injury
or damage to the equipment.

WORKING WITH THE SONAR OIL

Gain too high Proper gain Gain too low
Precautions
Q
Keep oil away from eyes. Wear pro-
tective gloves when working with the oil. Warning labels
The oil can cause inflammation of the
eyes. Warning labels are attached to the
Q
Do not touch the oil. Wear protective display, transceiver and hull units. Do
gloves when working with the oil. The not remove the labels. If a label is
oil can cause inflammation of the skin. missing or illegible, contact a FURUNO
Q
Do not ingest the oil. Diarrhea and agent or dealer.
vomiting may result.
Q
Keep the oil out of reach of children. WARNING TRANSCEIVER UNIT
To avoid electrical shock, do not Name: Warning Label (1)
remove cover. No user-serviceable Type: 86-003-1011-1
Emergency procedures parts inside.
Code No.: 100-236-231
Q
If the oil enters eyes, flush with clean
water about 15 minutes. Consult a DISPLAY UNIT
physician. Name: Warning Label (2)
Q
If the oil is ingested, see a physician Type: 86-003-1001-1
Code No.: 100-236-741
immediately.
WARNING HULL UNIT
Disposal of oil and its container Name: Injury
Moving shaft can pinch and cut.
Dispose of oil and its container in accord- Keep hands clear while operating. Warning Label
Lockout power before servicing.
ance with local regulations. For further Type: 06-021-4015-0
details, contact place of purchase. Code No.: 100-281-590

Storage
Seal container to keep out foreign material.
Store in dark, cool place.
TFT LCD
The high quality TFT (Thin Film Transistor)
LCD displays 99.999% of its picture ele-
ments. The remaining 0.01% may drop out
or light, however this is an inherent property
of the LCD; it is not a sign of malfunction.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD ....................................................................................................... vii
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION................................................................................ ix
1. OPERATIONAL OVERVIEW......................................................................... 1-1
1.1 Control Description.......................................................................................................1-1
1.2 Remote Controller ........................................................................................................1-2
1.3 Turning the Power On/Off ............................................................................................1-3
1.3.1 Power on ...........................................................................................................1-3
1.3.2 Power off ...........................................................................................................1-3
1.4 Raising, Lowering the Transducer................................................................................1-4
1.4.1 Lowering the transducer....................................................................................1-4
1.4.2 Raising the transducer ......................................................................................1-4
1.5 Adjusting Screen Brilliance, Panel Dimmer..................................................................1-5
1.6 Choosing a Display ......................................................................................................1-6
1.7 Choosing a Frequency .................................................................................................1-9
1.8 Mix Display................................................................................................................. 1-11
1.9 Adjusting the Gain......................................................................................................1-13
1.10 Menu Overview ..........................................................................................................1-15
2. HORIZONTAL MODE.................................................................................... 2-1
2.1 Operational Overview...................................................................................................2-1
2.2 Typical Horizontal Mode Display ..................................................................................2-2
2.3 Choosing a Range .......................................................................................................2-3
2.4 Choosing Sector Width ................................................................................................2-4
2.5 Choosing Train Center .................................................................................................2-5
2.6 Choosing a Tilt Angle ...................................................................................................2-5
2.6.1 Tilt angle for surface fish ...................................................................................2-6
2.6.2 Distinguishing fish echo from bottom echo in coastal waters ............................2-6
2.6.3 Suitable tilt angle ...............................................................................................2-8
2.7 Choosing Training Speed .............................................................................................2-9
2.8 Changing Training Direction.........................................................................................2-9
2.9 Finding Echo Position with the Cursor .......................................................................2-10
2.10 Event Marker.............................................................................................................. 2-11
2.11 Depth and Horizontal Range Markers........................................................................2-12
2.12 Adjusting the Picture ..................................................................................................2-13
2.12.1 Suppressing bottom and surface reflections ...................................................2-13
2.12.2 Suppressing bottom tail ...................................................................................2-14
2.12.3 Displaying weak echoes clearly.......................................................................2-14
2.12.4 Erasing weak echoes ......................................................................................2-16
2.12.5 Suppressing interference from marine life.......................................................2-17
2.12.6 Enlarging fish echoes (horizontal expansion display)......................................2-18
2.13 Target Lock ................................................................................................................2-19
2.13.1 Choosing a target lock mode...........................................................................2-19
2.13.2 Manual reverse mode......................................................................................2-19
2.13.3 Position mode..................................................................................................2-21
2.13.4 Echo mode ......................................................................................................2-22

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 2.14 Horizontal Menu Overview....................................................................................... 2-22
2.14.1 Horizontal menu description .......................................................................... 2-22
2.15 Interpreting the Horizontal Display ........................................................................... 2-24
2.15.1 How the horizontal mode picture is painted ................................................... 2-24
2.15.2 Sample displays ............................................................................................ 2-25
2.15.3 Combination display examples...................................................................... 2-29

3. VERTICAL SCAN MODE .............................................................................. 3-1

3.1 Operational Overview ................................................................................................ 3-1
3.2 Typical Vertical Scan Mode Display ........................................................................... 3-2
3.3 Choosing a Range ..................................................................................................... 3-3
3.4 Choosing Train Center............................................................................................... 3-4
3.5 Choosing Display Sector............................................................................................ 3-5
3.6 Choosing Sector Center............................................................................................. 3-6
3.7 Choosing Training Speed........................................................................................... 3-7
3.8 Finding Echo Position with the Cursor ....................................................................... 3-7
3.9 Changing Training Direction....................................................................................... 3-7
3.10 Event Marker ............................................................................................................. 3-8
3.10.1 Deleting all event markers from the vertical scan display................................. 3-9
3.11 Depth and Horizontal Range Markers ........................................................................ 3-9
3.12 Adjusting the Picture................................................................................................ 3-10
3.12.1 Displaying weak echoes clearly..................................................................... 3-10
3.12.2 Suppressing noise and interference .............................................................. 3-11
3.13 Vertical Menu Overview ........................................................................................... 3-12
3.13.1 Vertical menu description .............................................................................. 3-12
3.14 Interpreting the Vertical Scan Display ...................................................................... 3-13
3.14.1 How the vertical scan mode picture is painted............................................... 3-13
3.14.2 Sample displays ............................................................................................ 3-14
3.14.3 Horizontal/vertical scan port-starboard, Horizontal/vertical scan
upward-downward display............................................................................. 3-16

4. ECHO SOUNDER MODE.............................................................................. 4-1

4.1 Operational Overview ................................................................................................ 4-1
4.2 Typical Echo Sounder Display ................................................................................... 4-2
4.3 Choosing a Range ..................................................................................................... 4-3
4.4 Train Direction ........................................................................................................... 4-4
4.5 Choosing a Tilt Angle ................................................................................................. 4-4
4.6 Choosing a Picture Advance Speed........................................................................... 4-4
4.7 Measuring Range by Cursor ...................................................................................... 4-5
4.8 Event Marker ............................................................................................................. 4-5
4.8.1 Inscribing the event marker ............................................................................. 4-6
4.8.2 Deleting all event markers from echo sounder display..................................... 4-6
4.9 Range Marker............................................................................................................ 4-7
4.10 Adjusting the Picture.................................................................................................. 4-7
4.10.1 Displaying weak echoes clearly....................................................................... 4-7
4.10.2 Finding echo strength (A-scope display).......................................................... 4-9
4.10.3 Suppressing interference and noise ................................................................ 4-9
4.11 Echo Sounder Menu Overview ................................................................................ 4-10
4.11.1 Echo sounder menu description .................................................................... 4-10

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5. MENU OPERATION ...................................................................................... 5-1
5.1 COM1 Menu.............................................................................................................. 5-1
5.1.1 COM1 menu description ................................................................................. 5-2
5.2 COM2 Menu.............................................................................................................. 5-3
5.2.1 Displaying the COM2 menu ............................................................................ 5-3
5.2.2 COM2 menu description ................................................................................. 5-3
5.3 Short-cut Menu, Preset Menu.................................................................................... 5-4
5.3.1 Choosing short-cut or preset........................................................................... 5-4
5.3.2 Preset key....................................................................................................... 5-5
5.3.3 Short-cut key................................................................................................... 5-7
5.4 SYSTEM Menu ......................................................................................................... 5-9
5.4.1 How to open the SYSTEM menu .................................................................... 5-9
5.4.2 System setting menus....................................................................................5-10
5.4.3 Sonar (horizontal) mode range settings .........................................................5-14
5.4.4 Vertical scan mode range settings .................................................................5-15
5.4.5 Echo sounder mode range settings................................................................5-16
5.4.6 Track range settings ......................................................................................5-17
5.4.7 Color palette ..................................................................................................5-18
5.4.8 Language.......................................................................................................5-19
5.4.9 System backup ..............................................................................................5-19
5.4.10 Loading backup data......................................................................................5-19
5.4.11 Transducer frequency adjustment ..................................................................5-20
5.4.12 Demonstration mode......................................................................................5-20
5.4.13 Restoring all default settings ..........................................................................5-21

6. MAINTENANCE, TROUBLESHOOTING...................................................... 6-1

6.1 Preventive Maintenance ............................................................................................ 6-1
6.2 Cleaning the Equipment ............................................................................................ 6-1
6.3 Hull Unit Maintenance ............................................................................................... 6-2
6.3.1 Lubrication ...................................................................................................... 6-2
6.3.2 Manually raising, lowering transducer ............................................................. 6-2
6.4 Transducer Maintenance........................................................................................... 6-3
6.5 Fuse Replacement .................................................................................................... 6-3
6.6 Troubleshooting......................................................................................................... 6-4
6.7 Error Messages......................................................................................................... 6-5
6.8 Diagnostics ............................................................................................................... 6-6
6.9 Test Pattern............................................................................................................... 6-8

MENU TREE.................................................................................................... AP-1

SPECIFICATIONS........................................................................................... SP-1
INDEX............................................................................................................... IN-1

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FOREWORD
Thank you for purchasing the CH-300 Dual-Frequency Searchlight Sonar. We are confident
you will discover why FURUNO has become synonymous with quality and reliability.

Dedicated in the design and manufacture of marine electronics equipment for half a century,
FURUNO Electric Company has gained an unrivaled reputation as a world leader in the
industry. This is the result of our technical excellence as well as our worldwide distribution
and service network.

Please carefully read and follow the safety information and operating and maintenance
instructions set forth in this manual before attempting to operate the equipment and conduct
any maintenance. Your sonar will perform to the utmost of its ability only if it is operated and
maintained in accordance with the correct procedures.

Features
The CH-300 is a dual-frequency searchlight sonar. Consisting of a monitor unit, control unit,
transceiver unit and hull unit, it displays underwater objects on the monitor of choice, in 8 or
16 colors according to received echo strengths.

The main features are

• Horizontal and vertical section modes for detecting, searching, tracking and monitoring
fish school.
• 12 display modes for virtually any fishing application.
• Mix mode discriminates small fish.
• Fish or bottom echo can be displayed in white to distinguish bottom fish.
• Hull unit automatically raises the transducer when ship’s speed exceeds prescribed
speed.
• User-programmed function keys provide one-touch access to desired function.
• Two types of target lock for effective tracking of fish school.
• Digital display of position, speed, course, water temperature, depth, tide speed and
direction. (Requires appropriate sensors.)

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Usage Precautions
• The Motion Sensor MS-100 compensates for ship’s pitching and rolling. However, it does
not compensate for load unbalance.
• If the equipment will not be used for a long time, shut off the power to it at the mains
switchboard, to prevent battery discharge.
• If the soundome is to be operated while the ship is dry-docked, set the transmitter output
power to “minimum” (on the COM1 menu). Damage to the train-tilt section may result if it
is operated with maximum transmitter power while the ship is dry-docked.
• When the ship is dry-docked check for signs of corrosion on the soundome. Find the
reason for the corrosion and attach a zinc plate to the hull unit as an anticorrosion
measure if necessary.

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SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

INTERFACE UNIT IF-8000

CONTROL UNIT/MONITOR UNIT CH-302/MU-100C

Navigator

Control Unit

MONITOR UNIT
MU-100C
Display
Unit
VGA Ext.
Monitor

Remote
Controller
CH-256
TRANSCEIVER UNIT CONTROL UNIT CH-302
CH-303

SPEAKER

Satellite
Speaker Compass 12-24 VDC

Motion Sensor

12-24 VDC
HULL UNIT
Note 1: MU-100C is the standard supply CH-304
monitor unit. An external monitor CH-305
may be connected via the
interface unit (option). The drawing
above shows the system configuration
with the MU-100C.
Note 2: For blackbox type, MU-100C is
not supplied. Connect external
monitor (user supply) and control
unit to the interface unit.
When Monitor MU-151C is connected,
this interface is not necessary.

System configuration

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1.1 Control Description
Selects center bearing of training sector.
Selects detection range.

Selects training speed (horizontal mode)/

train center (vertical scan)/picture
advancement speed (echo sounder).
Turns the power on/off.
Reverses scanning direction.
Raises the transducer.
Adjusts receiver Controls tilt angle.
sensitivity. Selects center direction of
the vertical scanning sector.
Selects width of
Adjusts display brilliance.
training sector.
Omnipad
Shifts cursor.
Selects menu items, options.

XDR

GAIN(PUSH) SECTOR TRAIN RANGE TILT

LF MAIN FULL FAST

MIX REVERSE TARGET BRILL MENU
POWER HF SUB HALF SCAN

R/B EVENT

DISPLAY MODE CUSTOM MODE

Provide short-cut
Lowers the transducer.
key or one-touch
setup. Opens/closes
Turns target lock on/off menu.
(default) or reverses
scanning direction Inscribes/erases event
(menu setting required). markers.
Inscribes/erases range
Switches training sector to and bearing markers.
360° (horizontal mode),
or 180° (vertical scan mode).

Turns mix display on/off. Horizontal Mode Vertical Scan

Low freq/High freq selection Switches control
between main and BOW
Horizontal Combination* sub windows.
Tilt
LF MAIN
MIX
HF SUB
Sounding
beam
DISPLAY MODE Echo Sounder
Horizontal Echo Sounder
Horizontal Expansion Vertical Scan
* Horizontal/History, Horizontal/Vertical scan,
Horizontal/Vertical zoom, Horizontal/Video plotter

Control unit

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1.2 Remote Controller

The Remote Controller CH-256 (option) provides armchair control over range, tilt, target
lock and sounding range.

Choose tilt angle.

Choose display range.

Chooses sounding area:

Full circle 360° (horizontal mode)
Half circle 180° (vertical scan mode).
Turns target lock on/off (default)
or reverses scanning direction
(menu setting required).

Remote controller

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1.3 Turning the Power On/Off

1.3.1 Power on
This sonar has a demonstration mode which provides simulated operation without the
transducer. For further details see page 5-20.

Press the POWER switch on the control unit till you hear a “click.” A beep sounds, the lamp
above the switch lights and the startup display appears. Four seconds later the last-used
display appears.

MODEL: CH-300 **/***kHz

**: Frequency

Startup display
Note 1: Wait at least five seconds before reapplying the power.

Note 2: If the language selection window appears, see paragraph 5.4.8.

1.3.2 Power off

1. Check that the speed is under 15 knots*, and then press the [↑] switch on the control
panel to retract the transducer. The lamp above the switch blinks while the transducer is
being raised and lights steadily when it is fully raised. *The transducer may be damaged
if it is raised when the speed is more than 15 kts.
Transducer status indicator
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• Up arrow: Filled when transducer is fully retracted into the tank.
• Down arrow: Filled when transducer is fully lowered.
• Appropriate arrow flashes during raising/lowering of transducer.
25
Note: When the transducer is being raised automatically (auto raise feature),
the arrows are filled and the up arrow flashes. When the transducer is
fully retracted, the up arrow lights and the down arrow becomes hollow.

Transducer status indicator

2. Confirm that the lamp above the [↑] switch lights steadily (meaning the transducer is
fully retracted) and then press the POWER switch.

Note 1: The transducer is automatically retracted into the tank even if the equipment is
turned off before retracting the transducer. However, for safety purposes, make it a habit to
retract the transducer before turning off the power.

Note 2: After changing settings, wait at least one minute before turning off the power to
allow the equipment to memorize settings (and start up with them at the next power up). No
harm will result to the equipment if this is not done.

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1.4 Raising, Lowering the Transducer

1.4.1 Lowering the transducer

CAUTION
Do not exceed 20 knots when operating
the equipment and do not exceed 15
knots when lowering or raising the
transducer.

The transducer may become damaged.

With the boat at the fishing ground, press the [↓] switch to lower the transducer. The lamp
above the switch blinks while the transducer is being lowered and lights when it is
completely lowered. The down arrow of the transducer status indicator is filled when the
transducer is completely lowered.

1.4.2 Raising the transducer

Press the [↑] switch to raise the transducer. The lamp above the switch blinks while the
transducer is being raised and lights steadily when it is fully raised. The up arrow of the
transducer status indicator is filled when the transducer is fully retracted.

Note 1: The automatic transducer retraction feature, which requires speed input, raises the
transducer when the ship’s speed exceeds the operator-set speed (between 5 and 15
knots). If speed data is erroneous the transducer may be raised at a speed different from
the speed specified. For further details about the automatic transducer retraction, see AUTO
RETRACTION on page 5-13.

Note 2: An audio alarm may sound when the ship’s speed exceeds the speed specified.
For further details, see SPEED ALARM/MESSAGE on page 5-13.

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1.5 Adjusting Screen Brilliance, Panel Dimmer

Screen brilliance can be adjusted in 10 steps and panel dimmer (backlighting) in five.

1. Press the BRILL key to open the dialog box for screen brilliance and panel dimmer
adjustment. Do the next step within four seconds, otherwise the dialog box will be
erased.

BRILL:3

DIMMER:3

Brilliance, panel dimmer dialog box

2. Press ◄ or ► as appropriate to adjust screen brilliance (0 is the lowest brilliance; 9 the
highest). Note that continuous pressing of the BRILL key also changes the brilliance
level.
3. Press ◄ or ► as appropriate to adjust the panel dimmer (0 is the lowest level; 4 is the
highest).
4. Press the MENU key to register settings and close the dialog box. Note that the dialog
box is automatically erased if there is no control operation within about four seconds.

Note 1: The brilliance of a commercial monitor cannot be adjusted with the BRILL key. Use
the associated control on the monitor.

Note 2: For the supplied monitor unit, if you turn off the power with the brilliance set at
minimum the screen will show nothing at next power-up. In this case press the BRILL key
several times to raise the brilliance.

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1.6 Choosing a Display

12 displays are provided; choose the one which best suits your current needs. For a
description of each display, see Chapter 2.

Single-frequency displays

Key Display Key Display

NAV NAV
DATA DATA

HORIZONTAL EXPANDED HORIZONTAL

This mode provides 360 degree coverage. Expanded horizontal picture appears over
Useful for general search. (Chapter 2) the entire screen. (Chapter 2)

NAV NAV
DATA DATA
or
A-SCOPE
DISPLAY
Water temp/depth

VERTICAL SCAN ECHO SOUNDER

Vertical section of underwater conditions Using a fixed spot beam this display
appears on the entire screen. (Chapter 3) shows fish echoes below or around the
vessel. (Chapter 4)

Single-frequency displays

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Dual-frequency displays

Key Display Key Display

x2 x2

DUAL-FREQ HORIZONTAL DUAL-FREQ. HORIZ. EXPANSION

360° dual-freq. display of fish echoes, Expansion of dual-freq. horizontal

etc. (Chapter 2) display. (Chapter 2)

NAV
NAV DATA
DATA or
A-SCOPE
x2 x2
Depth/Temp. Display

DUAL-FREQ. VERTICAL SCAN DUAL-FREQ. ECHO SOUNDER

Dual-freq. display of vertical section of Dual-freq. display of fish echoes

fish echoes. Useful for judging depth below vessel. (Chapter 4)
and center position of fish school.
(Chapter 3)

Dual-frequency displays

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Combination displays

Key Display Key Display

NAV DATA NAV DATA

+ +
Choose Choose

HORIZONTAL/HISTORY HORIZONTAL/VIDEO PLOTTER

The horizontal picture appears in the main The horizontal picture appears in the main
window; the history picture in the sub window and the video plotter picture, which
window. Useful for showing history of fish traces ship's track, in the sub window.
movement, distribution. (Chapter 2) (Chapter 2)

NAV DATA

+ + NAV DATA
Choose Choose

HORIZONTAL/VERTICAL SCAN HORIZONTAL/VERTICAL ZOOM

The horizontal picture appears in the main The horizontal picture appears in the main
window; the vertical fan picture in the sub window; vertical zoom picture in the sub
window. (Chapter 3) window. (Chapter 3)

Combination displays

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1.7 Choosing a Frequency

You may choose low frequency or high frequency, with the LF/HF key. The display shows HI
or LO at the top of the screen depending on your selection. Use the table below to
determine which frequency to use.

Item Low frequency High frequency

Long-range detection PREFERABLE NOT RECOMMENDED
Attenuation loss is small on low Attenuation loss is great on high
frequency. frequency.
Use in shallow waters NOT RECOMMENDED PREFERABLE
Bottom echo is prominent Bottom echo is less prominent
because of wide beam width so because of narrow beam width
fish echoes are hidden. so fish echoes are easy to find.
Detection range PREFERABLE NOT RECOMMENDED
(detection “leaks”) Detection area is wide (beam Detection area is narrow (beam
width is wide). width is narrow).
Detection of bottom NOT RECOMMENDED PREFERABLE
fish Fish echo and bottom echo Fish echo and bottom echo are
overlap. displayed separately.
(Wide beam width) (Narrow beam width)
Detection of bait fish NOT RECOMMENDED PREFERABLE
Not suited for this purpose. Well suited for this purpose.
(Bait fish are not easily detected (Bait fish are more easily
with low frequency.) detected with high frequency.)
Affected by air NOT RECOMMENDED PREFERABLE
bubbles from other Low frequency is easily interfered High frequency is not easily
vessels by cavitation from other vessels. interfered by cavitation from other
vessels.
The dual-frequency display is useful for comparing the picture from one frequency against
the other to overcome deficiencies in both. Use the single-frequency for objective-specific
fishing.

High frequency
Low frequency

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Frequency selection and mode

Single-frequency display or combination display (other than vertical scan
combination): The LF/HF key chooses low frequency or high frequency alternately.

Dual-frequency display (mix mode OFF): The LF/HF key switches the frequency of the
high-and low-frequency displays alternately.

Dual-frequency display (mix mode ON): The LF/HF key changes the frequency of the
left-hand display* (top display in dual-frequency vertical scan display) from low to high
alternately.

* Dual-frequency horizontal display, Dual-frequency horizontal expansion display,

Dual-frequency echo sounder display.

LOW-FREQ. MIX LF/HF key HIGH-FREQ. MIX

DISPLAY DISPLAY DISPLAY DISPLAY

Frequency switching in dual-frequency combination display, mix display ON

Combination display (vertical scan combination):
Main window is active: The LF/HF key changes the frequency of the main window from low
to high alternately.
Sub window is active: The LF/HF key changes the frequency of the sub window from low to
high alternately.

To switch between main and sub windows use the MAIN/SUB key.

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1.8 Mix Display

The mix display compares echo intensity between low and high frequencies, and displays
echoes from tiny fish in discriminative colors. This is done by utilizing the fact that tiny fish
return a stronger echo against a high frequency rather than a low frequency. The equipment
accomplishes this as follows:

• If a high frequency echo is stronger than the corresponding echo on the low frequency,
the high frequency echo is displayed.
• If the low frequency echo is stronger than or equal to the high frequency echo, it is less
likely to be a tiny fish and therefore is displayed in blue.

In other words, the echoes displayed in orange thru light-blue may be considered to be tiny
fish such as whitebait. When the mix display is active the indication MX appears at the top
of the display.

High-frequency HI MX Mix
display display

GAIN (HI) GAIN (LO)

How the mix display works

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To use the mix display effectively, it is important that the gain for both the low and high
frequencies is set properly. When searching for young fish such as whitebait, follow the
procedure below. For detailed information about gain adjustment, see the next section.

Gain adjustment
1. Adjust the high-frequency gain while observing targeted fish.
2. While observing the mix display, set the low-frequency gain to 0 and gradually raise it
just until echoes from adult fish disappear from the mix display.
3. While observing the echoes from young fish on the mix display, readjust the
low-frequency gain in order to distinguish young fish. When the echoes from young fish
are weak, lower the low-frequency gain. If adult fish appear, raise the low-frequency
gain. (Rule of thumb: For whitebait, low-frequency gain is set 3-4 steps lower than
high-frequency gain.)

To activate the mix mode, press the MIX key. How to display the mix display depends on the
display mode in use.

Single-frequency display or combination display (other than vertical scan

combination): Use the MIX key to switch between the mix display and the single-frequency
display alternately.

Dual-frequency display: Use the MIX key to switch between the mix display and the
dual-frequency display alternately.

HIGH-FREQ. MIX
LOW-FREQ. HIGH-FREQ. MIX key DISPLAY DISPLAY
DISPLAY DISPLAY

How the MIX key works in dual-frequency mode

Combination display (vertical scan combination:

Main window is active: The MIX key changes the frequency of the main window from low to
high alternately.
Sub window is active: The MIX key changes the frequency of the sub window from low to
high alternately.
To switch between main and sub windows use the MAIN/SUB key.

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1.9 Adjusting the Gain

The GAIN control adjusts the sensitivity of the receiver. Normally, the control is adjusted so
that the bottom echo is displayed in reddish-brown mixed with red. Initially set the gain
between “4” and “6” and then fine tune according to fishing ground, etc.

Too Low Proper Too High

How to adjust the gain

Single-frequency or combination display
When using both high and low frequency in the horizontal/vertical scan display, refer to the
procedure on the next page.

1. Push the GAIN control.

HIGH FREQ GAIN: 5.0 (0-10)

2. Turn the GAIN control to adjust the gain (range: 0-10).

GAIN 5.3 Gain setting

Location of gain setting indication

3. Press the MENU key to close the gain setting window. Note that it is not necessary to
press the MENU key – the window will automatically if no operation is detected for four
seconds.

Note 1: Step 1 is not necessary if the menu item GAIN SETTING PROTECT (SYSTEM
SETTING 2 menu) is set for OFF.

Note 2: You can switch control between the main and sub windows in the horizontal/vertical
scan display with the MAIN/SUB key.

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Dual-frequency display
1. Push the GAIN control.

HIGH FREQ GAIN : 5.0 (0-10)

LOW FREQ GAIN : 5.0 (0-10)

PUSH GAIN KNOB TO SPECIFY THE FREQ

ROTATE GAIN KNOB TO CHANGE THE FREQ

2. Push the GAIN control to choose the frequency for which you want to adjust the gain.
3. Rotate the GAIN control to adjust the gain (range: 0-10).

GAIN(HI) 5.0 GAIN(LO) 5.3

Gain setting high and low frequencies

Location of gain setting indications on dual-frequency display

4. Press the MENU key to close the gain setting window.

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1.10 Menu Overview

The menu, consisting of six menus, mostly contains items which once preset do not require
frequent adjustment. Below is the procedure for basic menu operation.

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.

Note: Either PRESET (default setting) or SHORT-CUT appears between ES and SYS at the
top of the screen depending on the setting of CUSTOM KEY on the SYSTEM SETTING 1
menu, and they set the function of the custom keys [1], [2], [3]. For further details see pages
5-3 through 5-7.)

MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

DELETING TRACK NO
MIX MODE STANDARD
WHITE MARKER OFF
SIG LEVEL OFF
COLOR 16
BKGD COLOR 2

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

COM2 menu
2. The last-used menu is displayed. To choose a different menu, press ▲ to choose
MENU and then press ◄ or ► to choose menu desired.
3. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose menu item desired. At the bottom of the screen menu help is
provided.
4. Press ► to open the corresponding dialog box. The example below shows the dialog
box for DELETING TRACK, which is in the COM2 menu.
DELETING TRACK

NO YES

Dialog box for deleting track

5. Press ◄ or ► to choose option desired. If the option requires input of numeric data, use
◄ or ► to lower or raise the figure, respectively.
6. Press ▲ or ▼ to return to the menu, or press the MENU key to register your selection
and close the menu.

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2.1 Operational Overview
The figure below shows the typical horizontal mode operating sequence.

7. Set center bearing of train sector.

6(a). Set sector bearing
range. 8. Set tilt angle.
5. Set range.
1. Turn on the power.
11. Adjust menu settings
9. Adjust gain. (ex. TVG) as required.

XDR

GAIN(PUSH) SECTOR TRAIN RANGE TILT

LF MAIN FULL FAST

MIX REVERSE TARGET BRILL MENU
POWER HF SUB HALF SCAN

R/B EVENT

DISPLAY MODE CUSTOM MODE

4. Select appropriate 3. Adjust screen

2. Lower the horizontal mode. brilliance.
10. Measure range and
transducer. bearing to target with cursor.

6(b). Change sector bearing

range to 360°.

Control panel

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2.2 Typical Horizontal Mode Display

Press the (horizontal mode) key. Each press chooses the single frequency or dual-
frequency horizontal mode display alternately.

NAV
DATA

Single-freq. Display Dual-freq. Display

Switching between single-frequency horizontal and dual-frequency horizontal displays

Tilt angle indicator

* Depth marker (Indicates transducer tilt angle.)
When depth data is input from Horizontal max. range 30
external equipment, the depth Range and bearing markers
marker shifts according to depth
data. If the depth data is greater
than the horizontal range, the
Vertical max. 25
depth marker shifts to lowest position.
depth
Frequency
Depth marker*
Tilt angle
Demonstration Sector marker Tilt angle (See note at
mode left.)
Interference
Cursor data Train indicator Range rejector

(DEMO)
Transducer status indicator
→16 R 40 m 30
Filled arrow: Respective action
↓ 13 N T 40° completed
25
B208° HI Blinking arrow: Action in progress
Bottom echo +

Target lock indicator

Bearing marker
34° 12. 343' N
Fish echo Position in latitude*,
134° 34. 213' W
longitude*
ETA marker CSE 357°
SPD 9.9 kt Course*, speed*
Own ship marker E
W
Range marker DEP 35.1 m Depth,
TMP 12.3°C water temperature*
Event marker CUR 11.0° Tide direction*,
CUR 11.0˚
2.0 kt tide speed*
2.0 kt
GAIN 5.3 Gain setting
Cursor
TVG LEVEL 4.0 TVG level,
DISTANCE 200 m
→16 →9 distance settings
COLOR
B234° S ↓8
B7° Color bar

* Requires appropriate
Event marker data Ship's Range and bearing sensor.
track* markers data
Current vector*
North mark*

Sweep indicator
(Shows train position
in horizontal mode.)

Single-frequency horizontal display

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2.3 Choosing a Range

The RANGE control chooses the detection (display) range. Choose the range according to
either the fish species being searched or the depth desired. 15 ranges are available and
minimum and maximum ranges depend on the transducer used.

SEA SURFACE
SEA SURFACE
Range indicated
onRange
the screen.
indicated
BOTTOM
on the screen.
BOTTOM

Range description

Default horizontal mode range settings

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
m 20 40 60 80 100 120 160 200 250 300 400 500 600 800 1200
ft 50 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 1000 1200 1500 2000 3000 4000

Normally the range is set so that the bottom is traced at the lower part of the screen (like an
echo sounder). Each time the RANGE control is operated the newly selected range briefly
appears in large characters at the screen top. Range is always displayed at the right-hand
corner of the screen.

Note 1: Unit of range measurement may be chosen from among meters, feet, fathoms,
passi/braza or Hiro (Japanese) with UNIT on the SYSTEM SETTING 1 menu. For details
see page 5-11.

Note 2: Ranges may be freely preset as desired. For details see page 5-14.

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2.4 Choosing Sector Width

You may set the width of the scanned sector.

Display sector
96° (shown: 96˚)

Sector width
The SECTOR control chooses the width of the scanned sector among the sixteen positions
shown in the table below. Clockwise rotation of the control increases the sector width;
counterclockwise rotation decreases it.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Sector
width 6 24 48 72 96 120 144 168 192 216 240 264 288 312 336 360
(°)

In the full-circle mode (360°) the direction of training is clockwise; in the half-circle mode the
direction is clockwise to counterclockwise alternately.

One-touch selection of 360° sector

Each pressing of the FULL/HALF key alternately chooses 360° sector (full circle) or 168°
sector (half circle). If the SECTOR control is operated following the selection of the full-circle
display, the next pressing of the FULL/HALF key presents the full-circle display.
Sector set with
SECTOR control Full circle Half circle
FULL/HALF
FULL/HALF key
key 168°

How the FULL/HALF key works

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2.5 Choosing Train Center

The TRAIN control chooses the center direction of the detection range. The range of
adjustment is 0° to 354° in increments of 6°. The selected bearing is shown with a filled
circle, the train indicator, on the bearing scale.

0° (360°) → 6° → 12° → 18° → ... 354°

Train indicator

Sector

Train center

2.6 Choosing a Tilt Angle

The tilt angle shown the direction to which the sound wave is emitted. When the sound
wave is emitted horizontally, the tilt angle is said to be 0° and when emitted vertically, 90°.

To set a tilt angle, operate the TILT control. Watch the tilt angle indication and tilt angle
indicator at the top right corner of the screen. The tilt angle can be set in increments of 1°
from 0° to +5° (upward) to 0° to 90° (downward). Choose tilt angle depending on target fish.
For surface fish choose a narrow angle (about 5°) and for bottom fish, a wide angle (about
40°).
Soundome

+5°

0° Horizontal direction

Transducer Tilt angle setting range

90° Vertical direction

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2.6.1 Tilt angle for surface fish

Sound emitted from the sonar transducer forms an oval-shaped beam with a width of
approximately 10° (–3 dB, full scan, vertical beam width on 85 kHz) in the vertical direction
(vertical beam width). The tilt angle is indicated by the angle between the center line is
parallel with the sea surface and one half of the emitted sound goes upward, toward the sea
surface. This causes one half of the emitted sound to be reflected toward the transducer
and displayed on the screen as sea surface reflections. When the sea is calm, since the
sound is reflected just like reflections become negligible.

However if the sea is not calm enough, they will become dominant and interfere with
observation of wanted echoes. To minimize these sea surface reflections and to search fish
schools effectively, the tilt angle is usually set between 5° and 7° so the upper portion of the
beam becomes almost parallel with the sea surface. When the sea is rough, the tilt angle is
slightly increased to lessen the affect of sea surface reflections.
Sea surface

Tilt angle 0° 10°

Sea surface

Tilt angle 5-7°

10°

Tilt angle

2.6.2 Distinguishing fish echo from bottom echo in coastal waters

In coastal operations the bottom reflection is prominent so it is important to be able to
distinguish fish echoes from the bottom echo. The information below will help you to do this.

Tilt angle and bottom echo

Case 1 - Tilt angle 30° to 40°: The bottom echo, captured by the vertical beam width (10°
at -3dB full circle, 85kHz), is displayed “ring-shaped” and in strong colors.

Case 2 - Tilt angle 10° to 20°: The bottom echo is displayed wider and in weak colors as
the distance to the bottom increases.

Case 3 - Tilt angle 0° to 5°: The bottom echo is either weak or is not displayed even if the
vertical beam width captures the bottom echo, because the distance to the bottom is too far.

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How to discriminate fish echoes from the bottom

The figure at the bottom of the page illustrates how two fish schools “a” and “b” are
displayed on the screen using three different tilt angles.

Case 1 Case 2 Case 3

(Case 1, 2 and 3 are relative to the bottom pictured above.)

Detecting beam and fish position

Using the above three cases, fish schools will be displayed as below.

Fish school "a"

Fish school "a"

Bottom
Bottom
Bottom
Fish school "b"
Bottom Fish school "a" Fish school "b"
Fish school "b"
Case 1 Case 2 Case 3

Fish echo and tilt angle

Case 1(Tilt angle 30° to 40°): Fish school “a” and “b” are just above the bottom echo.
Case 2(Tilt angle 10° to 20°): Fish school “b” is clearly seen. Fish school “a” is behind
the bottom echo therefore it is difficult to discern.
Case 3(Tilt angle 0° to 5°): Bottom echo is weak so fish school “b” is easily seen.
Fish school “a” is masked by the bottom echo so it is
difficult to discern. However, larger fish schools may
appear in this condition.

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2.6.3 Suitable tilt angle

The figure below illustrates the relationship among tilt angle (0, 5, 10 and 15 degrees),
depth and detection range. Refer to it to find out the suitable tilt angle for a given
depth/detection range.
Tilt angle and beam coverage (frequency 85 kHz, vertical beamwidth 10° at -3 dB)
Range (m)
100 200 300 400 0°
(200) (400) (600) (800)

20(40)
5°
40(80)
60(120)
10°
80(160)

100(200) 15°
Depth (m)

200(400)

300 m
Vertical width of sonar beam 200 m
100 m

10 ° 17 m 34 m 51 m

Tilt angle and beam coverage

Frequency and detection range

Frequency Vertical beam width 100 m 200 m 300 m

85 kHz 10° -3 dB 17 m 34 m 51 m
60 kHz 14° -3 dB 24 m 48 m 72 m
153 kHz 5° -3 dB 9m 18 m 27 m
215 kHz 4° -3 dB 7m 14 m 21 m

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2.7 Choosing Training Speed

The training speed chooses how fast the transducer scans the sounding sector. Two
choices are available, normal speed (default setting) and high speed, and one may be
selected with the FAST SCAN key. Each time the key is pressed “NORM” (normal speed) or
“FAST” (high speed) momentarily appears at the screen top.

Normal (6°) : 60 transmissions required to complete full 360° picture (default setting).
High (12°) : On ranges higher than 160 m, 30 transmissions required to complete the full
360° picture.
The time necessary to train a full circle depends on frequency, range and mode. The table
below shows the time required to complete one full circle in the horizontal mode.

Single frequency

Range (m) 20 40 60 80 100 120 160 200 250 300 400 500 600 800 1200
Time NS* 9 9 9 9 9 11 14 17 21 25 33 41 49 65 97
(sec) HS* 9 9 9 9 9 11 12 14 16 18 22 26 30 38 54

Dual frequency

Range (m) 20 40 60 80 100 120 160 200 250 300 400 500 600 800 1200
Time NS* 11 11 11 11 11 12 15 18 22 26 34 42 50 66 98
(sec) HS* 11 11 11 11 11 12 14 15 17 19 23 27 31 39 55
* NS, Normal Speed, HS, High Speed

2.8 Changing Training Direction

The training direction may be reversed to reconfirm fish echoes. Press the REVERSE key
to reverse training direction between counterclockwise and clockwise alternately.
“REVERSE” appears at the top of the screen for three seconds when training direction is
reversed.

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2.9 Finding Echo Position with the Cursor

The cursor measures horizontal range, depth and bearing. Operate the Omnipad to place
the cursor where desired. Cursor position data appears at the top left-hand corner on the
screen.
Cursor position data

→: Horizontal range
↓: Depth
B: Bearing

NAV
DATA

Cursor

Location of cursor position data

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2.10 Event Marker

The event marker functions to mark important locations on the horizontal mode display, and
five event markers may be inscribed. Press the EVENT key to inscribe the event marker.
Each time the key is pressed the “latest event marker” (⊕) is inscribed at the cursor location
and all previously entered event markers are shown by the “previous event marker” (+).
Five event markers may be entered and when the capacity for event markers is reached the
eldest event marker is erased from the screen to make room for the latest.

Note 1: Event markers cannot be entered from the history or video plotter display (other
display in horizontal combination displays). Event markers may only be entered from the
horizontal display.
Note 2: The tilt angle must be less than 75-degrees. Correct event marker position data is
not possible with the tilt angle higher than 75-degrees.
Note 3: Event marker position may be output to external equipment. See paragraph 5.4.2
Note 4: Event markers are only erased from the currently used display (horizontal, vertical,
echo sounder).

Entering an event mark

1. Operate the Omnipad to place the cursor on the location desired for an event marker.
2. Press the EVENT key to inscribe the event marker. Event marker data appears at the
bottom left-hand corner.
"Latest event
marker"

Display area

"Previous event marker"

NAV
DATA

To delete all event markers,

Event marker data place the cursor outside the
→: Horizontal range display area and press the
B: Bearing EVENT key.

How to use the event marker

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Deleting all event markers from the horizontal display

To delete all event markers inscribed on the horizontal mode display, do the following:

1. Operate the Omnipad to place the cursor outside the display area.
2. Press the EVENT key to show the following dialog box. Do the next step within four
seconds, otherwise the dialog box will be erased.
DELETE EVENT MARK?

NO YES

3. Press ► to choose YES and then press the MENU key.

2.11 Depth and Horizontal Range Markers

The horizontal range, depth and bearing to a fish school can be measured by using the
range and bearing markers.

Note: Range and bearing markers cannot be inscribed on the history display or video
plotter display.

1. Operate the Omnipad to place the cursor on the location desired.

2. Press the R/B key to display the range and bearing markers. Horizontal range, depth
and bearing to the cursor location are shown at the bottom right-hand corner of the
screen.
3. To erase the range and bearing markers, place the cursor outside the display area and
press the R/B key, or place the cursor on the range or bearing marker and press the R/B
key.

Dashed lines
show horizontal
range and depth
NAV of range marker.
DATA
Bearing marker

Range marker
Range and bearing
markers data
→: Horizontal range
↓: Depth
B: Bearing from ship's bow

Range and bearing markers

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2.12 Adjusting the Picture

2.12.1 Suppressing bottom and surface reflections
In shallow fishing grounds, excessive sea surface and bottom reflections often interfere with
wanted fish echoes and they cannot be eliminated sufficiently with the TVG controls. In
such cases, try to reduce the output power, without turning down the gain. The picture
becomes clearer when output power is reduces rather than when the gain is decreased.

Maximum TX power Minimum TX power

Sonar image and TX power setting

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.

2. Press ▲ to choose MENU and then press ◄ to choose the COM1 menu.

MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

TX POWER MAX
PULSELENGTH LONG
TX RATE 10
INT REJECT OFF
AGC OFF
AUDIO LEVEL 0

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

COM1 menu
3. Press ▲ to choose TX POWER and then press ►. The following dialog box appears.
TX POWER

MAX MIN

4. Press ► to choose MIN. (For long-range detection be sure to return the setting to MAX.)
5. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.

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2.12.2 Suppressing bottom tail

As described earlier, fish schools near the bottom are sometimes difficult to detect because
you have to discriminate fish echoes from the bottom reflections. To discriminate fish
echoes near the bottom, choose the short Tx pulselength on the COM1 menu to decrease
the tail of bottom reflections.

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.

2. Press ▲ to choose MENU and then press ◄ to choose the COM1 menu.
3. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose PULSELENGTH and then press ►. The following dialog box
appears.
PULSELENGTH

LONG SHORT

4. Press ► to choose SHORT.

5. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.

2.12.3 Displaying weak echoes clearly

Echoes from targets (such as the bottom or a fish) return to the transducer in order of the
distance to them, and when their intensities are compared at the transducer face, those
from nearer targets are generally stronger when their reflecting properties are nearly equal.
The sonar operator will be quite inconvenienced if these echoes are directly displayed on
the screen, since he won’t be able to judge the actual size of the target from the size of
echoes displayed on the screen. To overcome this inconvenience, use the TVG function. It
compensates for propagation loss of sound in water: amplification of echoes on short range
is suppressed and gradually increased as range increases, so that similar targets are
displayed in similar intensities irrespective of the ranges to them.

The TVG also functions to suppress unwanted echoes and noise which appears in a certain
range area on the screen.

Without TVG Nearer target Proper TVG setting

echoes appear Reduce
in larger size. gain for Echoes of equal
nearby size targets are
Noise caused by areas, presented in the
strong reflection using same color and size.
of surface TVG. Noise is rejected.
turbulence.

How TVG works

Note: Excessive TVG may eliminate short-range echoes.

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To adjust TVG:
1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press ▲ to choose MENU and then press ◄ or ► to choose HORZ.

MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

TVG LEVEL 4.0

TVG DISTANCE 4.0
RES. COLOR LOG
CLUTTER 0
TARGET KEY ECHO
LOCK MODE AUTO
AUTO TILT OFF

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

HORZ menu
3. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose TVG DISTANCE and press ►. The following dialog box
appears.
TVG DISTANCE 4.0

Hi

Lo
200m

4. Press ◄ or ► to adjust TVG distance between 3.0 and 5.0 (130-320 m). As a general
rule, use a higher setting for low-frequency transducer; a lower setting for high frequency
transducer. The larger the figure the greater the distance at which TVG works. When you
open the TVG dialog box the TVG line changes from solid to dashed and a solid line
denotes current TVG setting.
TVG Distance
0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 .... 10.0
Setting
Meters 3 8 20 40 60 100 130 160 200 250 320 .... 1000
Feet 10 30 70 130 210 330 410 520 660 820 1040 3280
Passi/braza 2 5 10 20 40 60 80 100 120 150 180 600
Hiro 2 5 10 20 40 60 80 100 130 170 210 .... 660

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5. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.
6. To suppress reflections by the sea surface or plankton, choose TVG LEVEL and press
►.
7. Press ◄ or ► to adjust TVG LEVEL, considering sea conditions. A setting between 2.0
and 5.0 should provide satisfactory results. The higher the figure the less the gain over
distance.
8. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.
9. Watch a distant fish echo which is approaching own ship, adjusting the tilt angle so the
fish echo is within the sounding beam. Observe color of fish echo. If the color and size of
the echo stay the same as the echo approaches own ship, the TVG setting is proper. If
the echo suddenly becomes smaller, the TVG level may be too high.

2.12.4 Erasing weak echoes

Weak echoes such as interference can be erased from the screen, using the “signal level”
feature. This is useful when you want to observe a fish school echo.

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.

2. Press ▲ to choose MENU.
3. Press ◄ to choose COM2.
4. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose SIG LEVEL.
5. Press ► to open the dialog box.
SIG LEVEL OFF
OFF 1 14
8-color display: OFF, 1-6
(OFF, 1-14) 16-color display: OFF, 1-14
6. Press ◄ or ► to choose echo color to erase. Pressing ► erases echoes from weak to
strong in ascending order of strength. You can also see which echo color is erased by
watching the color bar.
7. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.

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2.12.5 Suppressing interference from marine life

If you are fishing in an area where there are a lot of fishing vessels, you may receive
interference from other vessels’ sonar or echo sounder. Further, electrical interference
onboard own ship may generate interference. To suppress this type of interference use the
interference rejector.

(A) Inteference from (B) Interference from

other sonars (yours marine life
or other's)

Interference from other sonars, marine life

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.

2. Press ▲ to choose MENU and then press ◄ to choose the COM1 menu.
3. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose INT REJECT and then press ►. The following dialog box
appears.
INT REJECT

OFF LoFREQ HiFREQ BOTH

4. Press ◄ or ► to choose the frequency where you want to suppress interference. When
the interference suppressor is turned on appears at the top of the screen.
5. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.

Note that the interference rejector cannot be turned on/off independently for each frequency
in case of the dual-frequency display.

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2.12.6 Enlarging fish echoes (horizontal expansion display)

Fish echoes may be enlarged 1.5 times by using the horizontal expansion display. Press the
key to activate the horizontal expansion display (single frequency). Then, the horizontal
display is expanded at the center of training direction, bow direction.

Train center direction Position after expansion Remarks

318° –42° Moves to screen bottom For viewing forward
48° –123° Moves to left side of screen For viewing starboard side
138° –222° Moves to screen top For viewing aft
228° -312° Moves to right side of screen For viewing port side

You can switch between the single-frequency horizontal expansion display and the
dual-frequency horizontal expansion display alternately with the key as shown below.

NAV
DATA

Single-freq. Display Dual-freq. Display

Switching between single-frequency horizontal expansion and dual-frequency horizontal expansion displays

Frequency
Sector marker
Tilt angle

Train indicator Range

Cursor position data

→14 R 40 m 30
↓ 12 T 40°
B46° HI
+ 25

Train
34° 12. 343' N
position
134° 34. 213' W
CSE 357°
SPD 9.9 kt

DEP 35 m
TMP 12.3˚C

Own ship CUR 11.0˚

CUR 11.0°
2.0 kt
2.0 kt
marker
GAIN 5.3

TVG LEVEL 4.0

DISTANCE 200 m
COLOR

Cursor

Horizontal expansion display

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2.13 Target Lock

Three types of target lock modes are available.

Manual reverse: The transducer train direction is reversed manually. Available in the
horizontal and vertical fan modes.
Position: Tracks stationary position (such as a reef) using position data from a
navigator. Available in the horizontal mode only.
Echo: Tracks fish echo either manually or automatically. Available in the
horizontal mode only. (Default setting)

2.13.1 Choosing a target lock mode

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press▲ to choose MENU.
3. Press ◄ or ► to choose the HORZ menu.
4. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose TARGET KEY.
5. Press ◄ or ► to show following dialog box.
TARGET KEY

POS ECHO REVERSE

6. Press ◄ or ► to choose option desired.

7. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.

2.13.2 Manual reverse mode

The transducer train direction is reversed manually, thereby emphasizing possible fish
echoes.

Note: This function is inoperative in the echo sounder mode. In the vertical fan mode the
manual reverse mode is automatically selected regardless of the setting in paragraph
2.13.1.

To activate the manual reverse mode:

1. Select REVERSE following the procedure in paragraph 2.13.1.
2. Press the TARGET key to reverse the transducer train direction when a fish school
appears. “REVERSE” momentarily appears at the screen top when the key is pressed
and then the transducer train direction is reversed.

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2.13.3 Position mode

This mode tracks a stationary position (such as a reef) using position data fed from a
navigator.

Note 1: This function is inoperative in the echo sounder mode.

Note 2: This mode requires position data. When there is no position data the message “NO
POSITION DATA.” appears for four seconds and tracking is automatically cancelled. Check
the navigator.

Note 3: The tilt angle must be less than 75 degrees to use this feature.

1. Use the Omnipad to choose the location to track.

2. Press the TARGET key.

The message “POS LOCK” appears momentarily at the screen top, the target lock
marker is displayed at the cursor position and the target lock indicator appears at the top
right-hand corner of the screen while tracking (with position data from external
equipment) is occurring. SECTOR, TILT and FULL/HALF controls are inoperative since
their functions are inoperative during position mode target lock.

The detection area is fixed at 48-degrees. Tilt angle and train are automatically adjusted
to track the target even if your vessel is moving.
Target lock indicator

Target lock marker

Target lock indicator

3. To turn off the target lock, press the TARGET key again. The message “LOCK END”
momentarily appears, the target lock marker and the target lock indicator disappear and
previously used sector, train and tilt settings are restored. Also, latitude and longitude
indication returns to normal.

Note 1: Target lock is automatically canceled if position data is lost.

Note 2: When target lock is activated in the vertical scan combination display, the vertical
bearing cursor automatically shows target direction. When target lock is canceled the
vertical bearing cursor is returned to its previous position. The vertical scan display operates
like the vertical search features when the target lock is active. For further details about the
vertical search feature, see page 5-8.

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2.13.4 Echo mode

The echo mode tracks a fish school either automatically or manually. The default setting is
automatic, and you can choose automatic or manual with “LOCK MODE” in the HORZ
menu. Note that this mode is not available in the vertical scan or echo sounder mode

Automatic tracking
The automatic echo target lock function automatically tracks a fish school appearing in the
operator-chosen target lock zone. I

1. Press the TARGET key.

The dialog box below appears at the screen center, the message “ECHO LOCK”
appears for three seconds at the top of the screen, the target lock area appears in the
current train area and the target lock indicator appears at the right-hand side of the
screen.
TARGET LOCK AREA.
: INSIDE
: OUTSIDE

2. Use the Omnipad to set the detection area: ▲ of ▼ to set the outer boundary; ◄ or ► to
set the inner boundary. Use the SECTOR and TRAIN controls to adjust the detection
area. Do not include bottom echoes in the zone, so that target lock will not be activated
by bottom echoes.
Outer boundary

Detection area
Target lock
indicator
NAV
DATA
Inner boundary

Target lock area

When a target of red or reddish-brown color is detected in the zone, the target lock
indicator blinks, the buzzer sounds and the detection area disappears. When a tracked
target is lost, the operation shown below is repeated.

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Tilt changed to search [(A + 10°) → (A - 10°) →A]

Detection area displayed once again and target

lock indicator lights.

A: Tilt angle at start of target lock

3. If the target does not appear even though the tilt angle is changed, adjust the SECTOR
and TRAIN controls to change the detection area.
4. To turn off the target lock, press the TARGET key again. The message “LOCK END”
appears for three seconds at the screen top, the target lock indicator disappears and
operation continues with current train and tilt settings.

Manual tracking
1. Set LOCK MODE to MANUAL on the HORZ menu.
2. Press the TARGET key when a wanted target echo appears.
The message “ECHO LOCK” appears along with the target lock indicator. Then, the
transducer train direction is reversed
and searching starts with the current 1. Tilt angle is changed by +10° (A+10°).
tilt angle. When a target echo (A is the tilt angle used when tracking began.)
appears the transducer train
2. Tilt angle is changed by -10° (A-10°).
direction is again reversed
automatically, the buzzer sounds and 3. If the echo could not be found, tracking is
the target lock indicator blinks. cancelled and tilt angle A is restored.
If the fish echo is lost the tilt angle
is automatically changed to
continue tracking as shown right.
3. To quit the target lock, press the TARGET key again. The message “LOCK END”
appears momentarily.

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2.14 Horizontal Menu Overview

This section presents an overview of the items on the HORZ menu.

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.

2. Press ▲ to choose MENU and then press ◄ or ► to choose the HORZ menu.

MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

TVG LEVEL 4.0

TVG DISTANCE 4.0
RES. COLOR LOG
CLUTTER 0
TARGET KEY ECHO
LOCK MODE AUTO
AUTO TILT OFF

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

HORZ menu
3. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose item desired.
4. Press ► to show corresponding dialog box.
5. Press ◄ or ► to choose option desired.
6. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.

2.14.1 Horizontal menu description

TVG LEVEL: Compensates for propagation loss of sound in water. Default setting is 4.0.
For further details, see paragraph 2.12.3.

TVG DISTANCE: As above. Default setting is 4.0.

RES. COLOR: Sets transfer characteristics of input signal level versus display echo level.
Echo strength is emphasized in order of CUBE, SQUARE, LINEAR, LOG, and you can
observe the characteristics of each by watching the color bar as you change the setting.
LOG: Displays weak to strong echoes in their respective levels. This is the default
setting,
and is suitable for general use.
LINEAR: Downplays the weak echoes when compared with LOG. Effective for suppressing
weak echoes such as plankton.
SQUARE: Strong echoes are emphasized more than in LINEAR.
CUBE: Strong echoes are emphasized even more than in SQUARE.

CLUTTER: Low intensity echoes, often caused by sediments in water, are painted on the
screen as a large number or random dots. This noise can be suppressed. The higher the
number (setting) the weaker the echoes which are erased.

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TARGET KEY: Chooses target lock function between position and echo. Default setting is
ECHO. For further details see paragraph 2.13.

LOCK MODE: Chooses how to track fish echo in ”echo” target lock; automatically or
manually. Default setting is AUTO. For further details see paragraph 2.13.

AUTO TILT: Turns automatic tilt on or off, and the default setting is OFF. The choices are
±2°, ±4°, ±6°, and ±10°. Automatic tilt adjusts the tilt angle in the following sequence:
B → (B-A) → B → (B+A) → B → (B-A) → B → (B+A)…
B: Current tilt angle
A: Auto tilt setting

For example, the tilt angle is 30° and the automatic tilt setting is 4°. Then, the tilt angle is
changed in the following sequence: 30° → 26° → 30° → 34° → 30°→ 26° → 30° → 34°…

Note: The TILT control is inoperative when automatic tilt is active.

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2.15 Interpreting the Horizontal Display

This section provides information necessary for interpreting the horizontal display.

2.15.1 How the horizontal mode picture is painted

The wide sounding beam is emitted from the soundome at a certain tilt angle (see hatched
area in the figure below). The information (target echoes) obtained by this beam is
displayed in sectors of increments of 12° of the screen. Thus, all directions around the boat
are sounded in 30 times of transmissions.

Note: When the “FAST SCAN” is switched off, the equipment operates in a narrow
sounding beam. Then, the echoes appear on a 6° sector in each transmission, so 60
transmissions are required to complete the full 360° picture (6°x 60=360°). This means that
training speed is slower. However, since transmission power is concentrated into the narrow
sounding beam, a superior detection range is obtained. Furthermore, since the bottom
contour is painted distinctly, bottom fish may be more easily detected.

Sounding Beam Screen Display

Tilt: θ Train: 6°*

Tilt: θ

Sounding
Beam

When the narrow sounding beam (6°)

is selected 60 transmissions are required *12° When high speed training is
to complete the full circle. selected.

How the horizontal mode picture is painted

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2.15.2 Sample displays

This section provides various examples of horizontal mode displays. The appearance of
actual fish echoes will vary according to factors such as transmission frequency, gain and
TVG settings, and bottom composition and contour.

Bottom echoes
When the tilt angle is changed, the bottom echo illustrated below will appear on the display.
When the tilt is decrease (toward 0°), the bottom trace becomes winder and weaker. By
observing the bottom condition on the display, the skipper can prevent net damage.
(A) Flat bottom
Tilt angle: 10° to 15° Decreased tilt angle
Only half of
vertical beam width
captures the bottom.

(B) Flat bottom

Tilt angle: 20° or more

Bottom is displayed
narrower and in
stronger colors when
compared to (A).
(C) Sloping bottom
Tilt angle: 20° or more

Shallow bottom
is displayed in
a strong color
and with a
short tail.

Bottom

The deeper, sloping

bottom echo is displayed
in a weak color and
with a long tail.

Bottom echoes

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Fish schools
A fish school appears as a mass of echoes on the screen. The color of the mass shows the
density of fish schools on the sonar beam. To find distribution and center point of a fish
school, try several different tilt angles.
(A) Sea surface fish
Tilt angle: 0° to 10°

Bottom echo not

Fish displayed because
school of decreased tilt angle.
Sea surface
reflections are
present.

Sea surface
reflections

(B) Midwater, bottom fish Tilt angle: 30° or more

Fish echo which appears before bottom can be detected.

Bottom

Fish
school
Large midwater
fish school is
Tilt angle: 0° to 20° present.
Fish echo which appears together with
or after bottom can be detected.

Fish
school
Bottom

When the tilt angle is shallow,

the reflection echo from bottom
is weak and the fish echo
which appears from bottom
is easy to find.

Fish schools

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Sea surface reflections

To reduce sea surface reflections, set the tilt angle to 5° or higher, so the upper edge of the
sonar beam does not hit the sea surface, or adjust TVG. When a decreased tilt angle is
used, sea surface reflections cover a large area as illustrated below.

Sea surface Tilt angle

indication
10°

Sea surface
Sea surface reflections

10°

Sea surface reflections

Wake
A wake produced by own ship or another ship can be a strong reflecting object when a
decreased tilt angle is used. As the wake appears as a thick continuous line, it can be easily
distinguishes from a fish school. A wake contains many air bubbles which attenuate
ultrasonic energy, making it difficult to sound beyond the wake.
Other
ship

Own
ship
Own ship's
screw noise

Wake produced
by other ship
Own ship's wake
Own ship's (produced when
screw noise own ship turned)

Wake

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Sidelobe echo (false echo)

An ultrasonic wave is emitted only in the direction set by the TILT control, however there are
some emissions outside the main beam. These are called sidelobes. The energy of the
sidelobe is fairly weak but when the water is comparatively shallow and the bottom is rocky
and hard, strong signals are detected by the sidelobe. These are represented on the display
as a false echo as shown below.

Mainlobe echo

Sidelobe Sidelobe echo

Mainlobe
The bottom echo
detected by sidelobe
appears at a certain
tilt angle when the
sidelobe points ver-
tically. Also, poor
soundome projection
may result in a similar
false echo.

Sidelobe echoes
Noise
When the fishing ground is crowded with many fishing boats, the sonar is subject to
interference from ultrasonic equipment (echo sounder or sonar) on other boats as well as
those on own ship.

For instance, interference from the sonar operated on other boats will show itself on the
display as in the figure below. This interference can be suppressed by changing the Tx rate
on the COM1 menu.

Interference from sonars

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2.15.3 Combination display examples

How to choose a combination display
1. Press the key to show the combination display selection window.

HORZ/HISTORY

HORZ/VERT

HORZ/VERT ZOOM

HORZ/PLOTTER

2. Use ▲ or ▼ to choose the combination display desired. You may also use the key
to choose a display.
3. Press the MENU key to close the selection window, or wait four seconds for it to close
automatically.

Note 1: Combination displays may be disabled on the SYSTEM SETTING 2 menu. Only
those displays which are turned on appear in the combination display selection window.

Note 2: If all combination displays are turned off the vertical scan combination display is
automatically shown.

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Horizontal/history display
The horizontal display appears in the main window; the history display in the sub window.
The length of the picture displayed in the history display is equal to about four full circle
pictures. Thus the history display enables you to observe the history of fish movement and
distribution. It is also useful for detecting bottom fish, reefs and sunken vessels.

The history display cannot be adjusted.

Frequency

Tilt angle

Cursor position Range Tilt angle indicator

data

→17 R 40 m 30
↓ 14 T 40° Interference rej. ON
B148° HI Target lock indicator
+ 25
Transducer status
indicator
Own ship
marker 34° 12. 343' N Position in latitude*,
Train 134° 34. 213' W longitude*
position CSE 357° SPD 9.9 kt Course*, speed*

Fish echo

Bottom echo

Cursor * Requires appropriate

sensor.

Horizontal Display HIstory Display

Horizontal/history display

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Horizontal/video plotter display

The horizontal display appears in the main window; the video plotter display, which traces
ship’s track on the display, in the sub window. Compared to the horizontal display the video
plotter’s range is much longer. For example, an event marker entered on the horizontal
display disappears from that display when it goes out of the current range. However, when
entered on the video plotter display it remains on the video plotter display for a much longer
time when a long range scale is used. This can be useful when you want to return to the
location denoted with an event marker. Like with the horizontal display you can inscribed
five event markers on the video plotter display.

To display track on the horizontal display, the tilt angle must be less than 75 degrees.

You may switch control between the horizontal display and the video plotter display with the
MAIN/SUB key. The message MAIN WINDOW CONTROLLABLE or SUB WINDOW
CONTROLLABLE appears with each pressing of the key. A red rectangle circumscribes the
sub window when it is chosen. With the video plotter display selected you may change its
range with the RANGE control.

Note: Controls other than RANGE may only be operated from the main window. When you
attempt to operate them when the sub window is chosen the message SELECT MAIN
WINDOW appears.

Frequency
Tilt angle

Cursor position Range Tilt angle indicator

data

→18 R 40 m 30
↓ 15 T 40° Interference rej. ON
B154° Target lock indicator
HI
+ 25
Transducer status
indicator
Own ship
marker 34° 12. 343' N Position in latitude*,
134° 34. 213' W longitude*
Train
position CSE 357° SPD 9.9 kt Course*, speed*

Track* Sonar range marker

(Radius changes with
video plotter range.)

Event marker Event marker

(Entered from
Cursor horizontal mode)

→15
500 Scale
B 195°
* Requires appropriate
Event marker data sensor. Track*

Horizontal Display Video Plotter Display

Horizontal/Video Plotter display

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3.1 Operational Overview
The figure below shows the typical vertical scan mode operating sequence.

6. Set train bearing.

8. Set tilt angle.

7(a). Set scanning sector. 5. Set range.
1. Turn on the power.
11. Adjust menu settings
9. Adjust gain. (ex. TVG) as required.

XDR

GAIN(PUSH) SECTOR TRAIN RANGE TILT

LF MAIN FULL FAST

MIX REVERSE TARGET BRILL MENU
POWER HF SUB HALF SCAN

R/B EVENT

DISPLAY MODE CUSTOM MODE

2. Lower the transducer. 4. Select appropriate 3. Adjust screen

vertical scan mode. brilliance.
10. Measure range and
bearing to target with cursor.

7(b). Select training sector 180°.

Control panel

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3.2 Typical Vertical Scan Mode Display

Press the key to show the vertical scan display. You can switch between the
single-frequency vertical scan display and the dual-frequency vertical scan display
alternately with the key as shown below.

NAV NAV
DATA DATA

Single-freq. Display Dual-freq. Display

Switching between single-frequency vertical scan and dual-frequency vertical scan displays

Bearing indicator
(Shows training direction.)
FORE
Own
ship
PORT STARBOARD
Vertical range

Training indicator Horizontal range

AFT
Interference Transducer status indicator
rejector ON Filled arrow: Respective action completed
Blinking arrow: Action in progress
Heading*
Cursor position Horizontal range scale
data
+→6 R → 60 m
↓ 145 HI Frequency
340° ↓ 100 m
60 FORE AFT 60
34° 12. 343' N Position in latitude*,
Fish echo 134° 34. 213' W longitude*
CSE 357°
Cursor SPD 9.9 kt Course*, speed*

Horizontal
range DEP Depth
35.1 m
Bottom
20 TMP
echo Water temperature*
12.3°C
Depth 56 CUR 11.0° Tide direction*,
2.0 kt tide speed*
GAIN 5.3 Gain setting
TVG LEVEL 4.0 TVG level,
DISTANCE 200 m distance settings
Horizontal COLOR
100 Color bar
marker

* Requires appropriate
Sector center Vertical range scale sensor.
indicator
Event marker Horizontal range marker
Sweep indicator
(Shows tilt angle
in vertical fan mode.)

Single-frequency vertical scan display

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3.3 Choosing a Range

The RANGE control chooses the detection (display) range, in 15 settings. Choose the
range according to either the fish species being searched or the depth desired. Each time
the control is operated the newly chosen range briefly appears in large characters at the
screen top. Range is permanently displayed at the top right-hand corner of the screen.
Normally the range is set so that the bottom is traced at the lower part of the screen (like an
echo sounder).

Surface

RANGE m

Bottom

Range concept

Default vertical scan mode range settings

Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Meters 10 20 30 40 60 80 100 120 160 200 250 300 400 500 600
Feet 30 60 90 120 150 200 250 300 400 500 600 800 1000 1500 2000

Note 1: Unit of range measurement may be chosen from among meters, feet, fathoms,
passi/braza or Hiro (Japanese) with UNIT on the SYSTEM SETTING 1 menu. For details
see page 5-11.

Note 2: Ranges may be freely preset as desired. For details see page 5-15.

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3.4 Choosing Train Center

The TRAIN control determines the bearing of the vertical scan beam, from 0° to 180°.
Bearing of beam position can be found with the train indicator.

0° (360°) → 6° → 12° → 18° → ... 180°

Train Indicator Train of Vertical Fan Beam

Train indicator Bow

TRAIN

Train indicator

Train 0° Train 90° Train 180°

FORE STBD AFT

Train indicator and display

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3.5 Choosing Display Sector

Sector means the width of the transducer training, from 6° to 180°.

24° Sector (Shown: 24°)

Sector
The SECTOR control chooses the training area among the sixteen positions shown in the
table below. Clockwise rotation of the control increases the sector width; counterclockwise
rotation decreases it.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Sector
width 6 12 24 36 48 60 72 84 96 108 120 132 144 156 168 180
(°)

One-touch selection of 180° sector

1. Press the FULL/HALF key. A half-circle display of 180° is presented.
2. Press the FULL/HALF key again, and a 120°-sector display is presented.

Note: Operating the SECTOR control between steps 1 and 2 in the procedure above
displays the 180° sector at the next pressing of the FULL/HALF key.
Sector set with
SECTOR control Half circle
FULL/HALF
180° 0° 180° 0°
FULL/HALF key
key 180°
120°
24°

How the FULL/HALF key works

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3.6 Choosing Sector Center

The center direction of the sounding beam in the vertical direction can be changed with the
TILT control. The setting range is 0° to 180° in increments of 6°. Choose the setting which
places the sector center in the middle of the detection range.
Sector center angle
set with TILT control In the example display at left, the sector
center indicator is starboard, and the
PORT STBD width of the sector is 48°.
Sector 0˚
range
180°

Sector center
indicator
Sector of 48° set with
SECTOR control

Sector center
Automatic shifting of own ship position
Own ship position on the screen is automatically shifted either rightward or leftward
according to the direction of the sector center and display sector width.
The figure below shows the own ship position has been shifted rightward on the screen to
provide the wider view at the port side.
Sector center 0° to 60°: Own ship position shifted to port side
Sector center 66° to 114°: Own ship position shifted to center
Sector center 120° to 180°: Own ship position shifted starboard

Display sector

Sector center

How automatic shifting works

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3.7 Choosing Training Speed

The training speed chooses how fast the transducer scans the display sector. Two choices
are available, 3° (normal speed, default setting) and 6° (high speed), and one may be
selected with the FAST SCAN key. Each time the key is pressed the display momentarily
shows “NORM” (normal speed) or “FAST” (high speed).

Normal: 60 transmissions for half circle in increments of 3°.

High: 30 transmissions for half circle in increments of 6°.

3.8 Finding Echo Position with the Cursor

The cursor measures horizontal range and depth. Operate the Omnipad to place the cursor
where desired. Cursor data appears at the top left-hand corner on the screen.

Cursor data

+→ : Horizontal range
↓: Depth

NAV
DATA

Cursor

Location of cursor position data

3.9 Changing Training Direction

The training direction may be reversed to reconfirm fish echoes. Press the REVERSE key
to reverse training direction between counterclockwise and clockwise alternately.
“REVERSE” appears at the top of the screen for three seconds when training direction is
reversed.

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3.10 Event Marker

The event marker functions to mark important locations on the vertical scan display, and five
event markers may be inscribed. Each time the EVENT key is pressed the “latest event
marker” (⊕) is inscribed at the cursor location and all previously entered event markers are
shown by the “previous event marker” (+). When the capacity for event markers is reached
the eldest event marker is erased from the screen to make room for the latest. Note that the
marker cannot be inscribed from the vertical scan display in the horizontal/vertical scan
display.

1. Operate the Omnipad to place the cursor on the location desired for an event marker.
2. Press the EVENT key to inscribe the event marker. The event marker is inscribed on the
vertical scan display, as well as the horizontal and video plotter displays.
Display area
"Previous event
marker"

NAV
DATA

"Latest event marker"

To delete all event markers,
place cursor outside
display area and press the
MENU key.

How to inscribe, delete the event markers

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3.10.1 Deleting all event markers from the vertical scan display
All event markers inscribed on the vertical scan display may be deleted as follows:

1. Operate the Omnipad to place the cursor outside the display area.
2. Press the EVENT key to show the following dialog box. Do the next step within four
seconds, otherwise the dialog box will be erased.

DELETE EVENT MARK?

NO YES

3. Press ► to choose YES and press the MENU key.

3.11 Depth and Horizontal Range Markers

The depth and horizontal range markers function to measure the horizontal range and depth
to a desired echo.

Note: Depth and horizontal range markers cannot be inscribed from the vertical scan
display when it is in the sub window (Horizontal/vertical scan display). Inscribe the markers
from the horizontal display to show it in the vertical scan display.

1. Operate the Omnipad to place the cursor on the location desired.

2. Press the R/B key to display the depth and horizontal range markers. Horizontal range
and depth appear on the screen.
3. To erase the depth and horizontal range markers, press the R/B key again, or place the
cursor on the depth or horizontal range marker and press the R/B key.

Horizontal range
NAV marker
Horizontal range 94 DATA

105

Depth
Depth marker

Depth and horizontal range markers

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3.12 Adjusting the Picture

3.12.1 Displaying weak echoes clearly
Echoes from targets (such as the bottom or a fish) return to the transducer in order of the
distance to them, and when their intensities are compared at the transducer face, those
from nearer targets are generally stronger when their reflecting properties are nearly equal.
The sonar operator will be quite inconvenienced if these echoes are directly displayed on
the screen, since he won’t be able to judge the actual size of the target from the size of
echoes displayed on the screen. To overcome this inconvenience, use the TVG function. It
compensates for propagation loss of sound in water: amplification of echoes on short range
is suppressed and gradually increased as range increases, so that similar targets are
displayed in similar intensities irrespective of the ranges to them.
The TVG also functions to suppress unwanted echoes and noise which appears in a certain
range area on the screen.

To adjust TVG:
1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press ▲ to choose MENU and then press ◄ or ► to choose the VERT menu.

MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

TVG LEVEL 4.0

TVG DISTANCE 4.0
RES. COLOR LOG
CLUTTER 0
HORZ SCAN RATE 1
VERT SCAN RATE 1
HORZ RANGE x1

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

VERT menu

3. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose TVG DISTANCE and then press ► to show the following dialog
box.

TVG DISTANCE 4.0

Hi

Lo
200

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4. Press ◄ or ► to adjust TVG distance, considering sea conditions. The larger the figure
the greater the distance at which the TVG works.
TVG Distance
0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 .... 10.0
Setting
Meters 3 8 20 40 60 100 130 160 200 250 320 .... 1000
Feet 10 30 70 130 210 330 410 520 660 820 1040 3280
Passi/braza 2 5 10 20 40 60 80 100 120 150 180 600
Hiro 2 5 10 20 40 60 80 100 130 170 210 .... 660

5. Press or to close the dialog box and return to the VERT menu.
6. To suppress reflections by the sea surface or plankton, choose TVG LEVEL and press
►.
7. Press ◄ or ► to adjust TVG LEVEL, considering sea conditions. The larger the figure
the less the gain over distance.
8. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.

Wrong Correct Level too high Distance too high

Examples of proper and improper TVG

3.12.2 Suppressing noise and interference

You may encounter occasional noise or intermittent interference as shown below. This is
mostly caused by electrical equipment, engine, propeller noise from own ship, or noise from
other sonars being operated nearby. If interference appears, turn on the interference
rejector in the COM1 menu to suppress it. Note that the interference rejector cannot be
turned on/off independently for each frequency in case of the dual-frequency display.
Interference rejector ON

Interference
(In this display,
interference shows
itself every 6°.)

Appearance of interference

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3.13 Vertical Menu Overview

This section presents an overview of the items on the VERT menu.
1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press ▲ to choose MENU and then press ◄ or ► to choose the VERT menu.

MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

TVG LEVEL 4.0

TVG DISTANCE 4.0
RES. COLOR LOG
CLUTTER 0
HORZ SCAN RATE 1
VERT SCAN RATE 1
HORZ RANGE x1

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

VERT menu

3. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose item desired.

4. Press ► to show corresponding dialog box.
5. Press ◄ or ► or to choose option desired.
6. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.

3.13.1 Vertical menu description

TVG LEVEL: Compensates for propagation loss of sound in water. The default setting is
4.0.

TVG DISTANCE: As above. Default setting is 4.0.

RES. COLOR: Sets transfer characteristics of input signal level versus display echo level.
Echo strength is emphasized in order of CUBE, SQUARE, LINEAR, LOG. You can see the
characteristics of each by watching the color bar as you change the setting. Default setting
is LOG.
LOG: Displays weak to strong echoes in their respective levels. This setting is suitable
for general use.
LINEAR: Downplays the weak echoes when compared with LOG. Effective for suppressing
weak echoes such as plankton.
SQUARE: Strong echoes are emphasized more than in LINEAR.
CUBE: Strong echoes are emphasized even more than in SQUARE.

CLUTTER: Low intensity echoes, often caused by sediments in water, are painted on the
screen as a large number of random dots. The higher the number (setting) the weaker the
echoes which are erased.

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HORZ SCAN RATE: Sets the scan rate (1, 2, 3, 4) for the horizontal display in the
horizontal/vertical scan combination display. For example, if the scan for the horizontal
display is “4” and the scan rate for the vertical scan display is “2”, then for every four scans
at the horizontal display two scans are produced at the vertical scan display. Raise the
figure to give importance to the horizontal display.

VERT SCAN RATE: Sets the scan rate (1, 2, 3, 4) for the vertical scan display in the
horizontal/vertical scan combination display. Raise the figure to give importance to the
vertical display.

HORZ RANGE: You may choose the horizontal range expansion factor for the horizontal
expansion display from x1 or x2. Note that this feature cannot be adjusted when the vertical
search mode or target lock is active.

3.14 Interpreting the Vertical Scan Display

This section provides information necessary for interpreting the vertical scan display.

3.14.1 How the vertical scan mode picture is painted

The sounding beam is emitted and the information (target echoes) obtained by the beam
appears in the corresponding sector as it appears on the sonar mode. The difference is that
the training is performed only in vertical direction. It forms a sounding area of a half-circle
(like a slice of watermelon) to observe a vertical section of underwater conditions.
The bearing of the vertical sounding beam can be chosen manually or automatically.

Sounding Beam Screen Display

(1) Bearing of the Freq: 60 kHz

(1) Bearing of the
sounding beam
0° sounding beam
Bow

180° 180° 0°
Sector center 90°.
Display range
Tilting direction 24°.

(2) Sector center

(3) Display area
(2) Sector center,
(3) Display area
Select the bearing of the sounding beam (1) by TRAIN
control, the sounding sector center (2) by the TILT control
and the display area (3) by the SECTOR control.

How the vertical scan mode picture is painted

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3.14.2 Sample displays

Port-starboard picture (bottom)
You can see fish echoes at the center-right of the screen. The bottom is displayed wider as
the distance from the ship’s position increases. Therefore, it may be difficult to discriminate
bottom fish.

Own ship

PORT STBD

Fish
school

Bottom

Port-starboard picture
When ship passes over fish schools
The sounding beam is directed fore-aft and the display is off-centered* to present a wider
view of the area forward of the ship. You can clearly see fish schools approaching from the
bow of the ship.
*: Automatically shifted.

Forward Own ship

FORE AFT
Fish
school

FORE AFT
Fish
school

Picture appearance when passing over fish schools

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Display of net hauling

This is an example of net hauling display. The location of the net is indicated clearly.
Own ship Aft
FORE AFT
Net

Net hauling and sonar picture

False echo
In shallow water (depth less than 100 m) detection, unwanted echoes shown in the figure
may appear. This phenomenon is caused by the false echo from the previous transmission.
Reducing the Tx rate (on the COM1 menu) or lowering the range may lessen this effect.

PORT STBD

False echo
Bottom Fish

Range

False echoes

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3.14.3 Horizontal/vertical scan port-starboard, Horizontal/vertical

scan upward-downward display
Frequency

Tilt angle
Vertical scan
Cursor data bearing cursor Range Tilt angle indicator

→17 R 40 m 30
↓ 14 T 40°
B156° HI Interference rejector
+ 25 ON
Target lock indicator

Own ship Transducer status indicator

marker 34° 12. 343' N Position in latitude*,
134° 34. 213' W longitude*
Train
CSE 357° SPD 9.9 KT Course*, speed*
position
AFT FORE HI
50 50
Frequency

Sweep indicator
Cursor (tilt angle)

100

* Requires appropriate
Horizontal Display Vertical Scan Display
sensor.
(main window) (sub window)

Horizontal/vertical scan display (port-starboard direction)

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→16 R 60 m 30
↓ 13 T 40°
B 288°
LO
+
Horizontal 25
Display /////
(main /////

window) 34° 12. 343' N

134° 34. 213' W
CSE 357°
SPD 9.9 kt
100 AFT FORE 100 HI
DEP 35.1 m
TMP 12.3°C
Vertical
Scan
Display
(sub
window)

100

Horizontal/vertical scan display (upward-downward direction)

Press the key to choose and display the horizontal/vertical scan display. The horizontal
display appears in the main window; the vertical scan display in the sub window.

The displays are independent of each other so you can adjust them as desired. Press the
MAIN/SUB key to choose the window to adjust. Each pressing of the key momentarily
displays MAIN WINDOW CONTROLLABLE or SUB WINDOW CONTROLLABLE at the top
of the screen. A red cursor appears in the sub window when it can be controlled. The
following controls are operative on either window: SECTOR, TRAIN, RANGE, TILT, FAST
LF/HF, MIX, SCAN, FULL/HALF and CUSTOM MODE.

Note: R/B, EVENT or TARGET controls may only be operated from the main window.
When you attempt to operate them from the sub window the message SELECT MAIN
WINDOW appears.

TRAIN control
For horizontal display: Sets training center direction.
For vertical scan display: Sets direction of bearing cursor shown on the horizontal mode
display.

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SECTOR control
For the vertical scan display: When the display sector is 6° (minimum) the tilt angle of the
horizontal and vertical scan modes are interlocked and each transmission on the horizontal
display is reflected on the vertical scan display. The message TILT ANGLE MONITOR
WINDOW momentarily appears on the screen and the vertical bearing cursor disappears.

Note: Only the SECTOR control may be operated in this condition.

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4.1 Operational Overview
The figure below shows the typical echo sounder mode operating sequence.

7. Set sector.

8. Set train bearing.

9. Set tilt angle.
5. Set range.
1. Turn on the power. 12. Adjust menu settings
(turn on A-scope
6. Adjust gain. display, etc.).

XDR

GAIN(PUSH) SECTOR TRAIN RANGE TILT

LF MAIN FULL FAST

MIX REVERSE TARGET BRILL MENU
POWER HF SUB HALF SCAN

R/B EVENT

DISPLAY MODE CUSTOM MODE

2. Lower the transducer. 4. Select echo 3. Adjust screen

sounder mode. brilliance.
11. Measure range to fish
school with cursor.

10. Set picture advance speed.

Control panel

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4.2 Typical Echo Sounder Display

Press the key to display the echo sounder picture. You can switch between the
single-frequency echo sounder display and the dual-frequency echo sounder display
alternately with the key as shown below.

NAV NAV
DATA DATA
or or
A-SCOPE A-SCOPE

Depth/Temp. Display Depth/Temp. Display

Single-freq. Display Dual-freq. Display
Switching between single-frequency echo sounder and dual-frequency echo sounder displays

Bearing Tilt angle indicator

indicator (Shows tilt angle of transducer.)
Interference (Shows train
direction.) Tilt angle
rejector ON
Heading Range
Transducer status indication
Cursor
position R 10 m
T 60° HI Frequency
+ 4 340°
↓

Minute marker
34° 12. 343' N
134° 34. 213' W Position in latitude*,
Fish echo
longitude*
CSE 357°
Cursor SPD 9.9 kt Course*, speed*

CUR 11.0°
Tide direction*,
2.0 kt
5 tide speed*
Range 5
GAIN 5.3 Gain setting
Bottom echo
TVG LEVEL 4.0 TVG level,
DISTANCE 200 m distance settings

Color bar
10
DEP TMP
6.5 m 12. 3°C * Requires appropriate
sensor.

Depth Water
(When the tilt angle Range marker
temperature*
is 90 deg., the depth Range scale
measured by this
sonar is displayed Event marker
inside a rectangle.)

Single-frequency echo sounder display

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4.3 Choosing a Range

The RANGE control chooses the detection (display) range, in 15 settings. Choose the
range according to either the fish species being searched or the depth desired. Each time
the control is operated the newly chosen range briefly appears in large characters at the
screen top. Range is permanently displayed at the top right-hand corner.

Normally the range is set so that the bottom is traced at the lower part of the screen.

Surface

RANGE m

Bottom

Range concept

Default echo sounder mode range settings

Unit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
Meters 10 20 30 40 60 80 100 120 160 200 250 300 400 500 600
Feet 30 60 90 120 150 200 250 300 400 500 600 800 1000 1500 2000

Note 1: Unit of range measurement may be selected for meters, feet, fathoms, passi/braza
or Hiro (Japanese). For details see UNIT on page 5-11.

Note 2: Ranges may be freely preset as desired. For details see page 5-16.

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4.4 Train Direction

The sounding beam may be directed toward fore, aft, port or starboard. Operate the TRAIN
control to choose sounding beam direction. Each setting on the control is an increment of 6°.
The train indicator at the top of the screen shows training direction: 0°, fore direction; 90°,
starboard direction; 180°, aft direction, and 270°, port direction.
0° (360°) → 6° → 12° → 18° → ... 354°

Train 0° Train 90° Train 180° Train 270°

Train indicator and display

4.5 Choosing a Tilt Angle

The transducer can pointed directly toward the bottom or forward of the ship. Operate the
TILT control to choose an appropriate tilt angle. The available tilt angle is 0° (horizontal
direction) to 90° (vertical) in increments of 1°. Chosen tilt angle appears at the top of the
display to the right of “T”.

4.6 Choosing a Picture Advance Speed

The picture advance speed determines how quickly the vertical scan lines run across the
screen, from right to left. When choosing a picture speed, keep in mind that a fast advance
speed will expand a fish school horizontally on the screen and a slow one will contract it.

1. Press the FAST SCAN key to show the following dialog box.
ADVANCE
1/8 1/4 1/2 1/1 2/1

2. Press ◄ or ► (FAST SCAN key may also be used) to select a speed. The fractions in
dialog box correspond to the number of scan lines produced per transmission. For
example, “2/1” means two scan lines are produced per transmission.
3. Press the MENU key to close the dialog box. Note that the dialog box is automatically
closed if there is no control operation for about four seconds.

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4.7 Measuring Range by Cursor

Use the cursor to display the range from own ship to the cursor location. Use the Omnipad
to place the cursor where desired. The range to the cursor appears at the upper left-hand
corner of the screen.
Range to cursor

: Range

↓
NAV
DATA
or
A-SCOPE
DISPLAY
Depth, Water Temp. Display

Cursor

How to measure range with the cursor

4.8 Event Marker

The event marker functions to mark important locations on the echo sounder display, and
five event markers may be inscribed. Each time the EVENT key is pressed the “latest event
marker” (⊕) is inscribed at the cursor location and all previously entered event markers are
shown by the “previous event marker” (+). When the capacity for event markers is reached
the eldest event marker is erased from the screen to make room for the latest.

Note 1: The event marker inscribed on the echo sounder display will also be inscribed on
the horizontal and video plotter displays, at own ship position always.

Note 2: Event marker position can be output to external equipment. For details see
TARGET L/L on page 5-10.

Note 3: Event markers are automatically erased as they move off the screen with picture
advancement.

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4.8.1 Inscribing the event marker

1. Operate the Omnipad to place the cursor on the location desired for an event marker.
2. Press the EVENT key to inscribe the event marker.
Display area
"Previous event marker"

NAV
DATA
or
A-SCOPE
DISPLAY
Depth, Water Temp. Display

"Latest event marker"

To delete all event markers
on the echo sounder dislay,
place the cursor outside
the display area and
press the EVENT key.

How to inscribe, delete the event markers

4.8.2 Deleting all event markers from echo sounder display

Event markers inscribed on the echo sounder display may be erased collectively as follows:

1. Operate the Omnipad to place the cursor outside the display area.
2. Press the EVENT key to show the following dialog box. Do the next step within four
seconds, otherwise the dialog box will be erased.
DELETE EVENT MARK?

NO YES

3. Press ► to choose YES and press the MENU key.

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4.9 Range Marker

The range marker functions to measure the range to a target echo (fish school, bottom, etc.)

1. Operate the Omnipad to place the cursor on the location desired.

2. Press the R/B key to display the range marker. The range marker appears along with
range indication.
3. To erase the range marker, press the R/B key again, or place the cursor on the range
marker and press the R/B key.
Range marker

NAV
DATA
Range 67
or
A-SCOPE
DISPLAY
Depth, Water Temp. Display

Range marker

4.10 Adjusting the Picture

4.10.1 Displaying weak echoes clearly
Echoes from targets (such as the bottom or a fish) return to the transducer in order of the
distance to them, and when their intensities are compared at the transducer face, those
from nearer targets are generally stronger when their reflecting properties are nearly equal.
The sonar operator will be quite inconvenienced if these echoes are directly displayed on
the screen, since he won’t be able to judge the actual size of the target from the size of
echoes displayed on the screen. To overcome this inconvenience, use the TVG function. It
compensates for propagation loss of sound in water: amplification of echoes on short range
is suppressed and gradually increased as range increases, so that similar targets are
displayed in similar intensities irrespective of the ranges to them.
The TVG also functions to suppress unwanted echoes and noise which appears in a certain
range area on the screen.

To adjust TVG:
1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press ▲ to choose MENU and then press ◄ or ► to choose the ES menu.

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MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

TVG LEVEL 4.0
TVG DISTANCE 4.0
RES. COLOR LOG
CLUTTER 0
A-SCOPE OFF

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

ES menu
3. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose TVG DISTANCE and press ►. The following dialog box
appears.

TVG DISTANCE 4.0

Hi

Lo
200m

4. Press ◄ or ►or to adjust TVG distance.

TVG Distance
0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 .... 10.0
Setting
Meters 3 8 20 40 60 100 130 160 200 250 320 .... 1000
Feet 10 30 70 130 210 330 410 520 660 820 1040 3280
Passi/braza 2 5 10 20 40 60 80 100 120 150 180 600
Hiro 2 5 10 20 40 60 80 100 130 170 210 .... 660

5. Press ▲ or ▼ to close the dialog box and return the ES menu.

6. To suppress reflections by the sea surface or plankton, choose TVG LEVEL and press
►.
7. Press ◄ or ► to adjust TVG LEVEL.
8. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.

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4.10.2 Finding echo strength (A-scope display)

The A-scope display shows echoes at each transmission with amplitudes and tone
proportional to their intensities on the right 1/4 of the screen. It is useful for estimating the
kind of fish school and bottom composition.

1. Press the MENU key.

2. Press ▲ to choose MENU.
3. Press ◄ or ► or to choose ES.
4. Press ▼ to choose A-SCOPE.
5. Press ◄ or ► to open the dialog box.
A-SCOPE

OFF ON

6. Press ► to choose ON.

7. Press the MENU key to close the dialog box.
Echo sounder picture

A-scope display

Depth, Water Temp. Display

A-scope display

4.10.3 Suppressing interference and noise

You may encounter occasional noise or intermittent interference on the display. This is
mostly caused by electrical equipment, engine, propeller noise from own ship, or noise from
other sonars being operated nearby. If interference appears, turn on the interference
rejector in the COM1 menu to suppress it. Note that the interference rejector cannot be
turned on/off independently for each frequency in case of the dual-frequency display.

Interference Interference
from other Electrical
from other interference
sounder sonar

Interference

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4.11 Echo Sounder Menu Overview

This section presents an overview of the items on the ES menu.
1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press ▲ to choose MENU and then press ◄ or ► or to choose the ES menu.

MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

TVG LEVEL 4.0
TVG DISTANCE 4.0
RES. COLOR LOG
CLUTTER 0
A-SCOPE OFF

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

ES menu
3. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose item desired.
4. Press ► to show corresponding dialog box.
5. Press ◄ or ► to choose option desired.
6. Press the MENU key to register your selection and close the menu.

4.11.1 Echo sounder menu description

TVG LEVEL: Compensates for propagation loss of sound in water. See paragraph 4.10.1.
Default setting is 4.0.

TVG DISTANCE: As above. Default setting is 4.0.

RES. COLOR: Sets transfer characteristics of input signal level versus display echo level.
Echo strength is emphasized in order of CUBE, SQUARE, LINEAR, LOG. You can see the
characteristics of each by watching the color bar as you change the setting. The default
setting is LOG.
LOG: Displays weak to strong echoes in their respective levels. This setting is suitable for
general use.
LINEAR: Downplays the weak echoes when compared with LOG. Effective for suppressing
weak echoes such as plankton.
SQUARE: Strong echoes are emphasized more than in LINEAR.
CUBE: Strong echoes are emphasized even more than in SQUARE.

CLUTTER: Low intensity echoes, often caused by sediments in water, are painted on the
screen as a large number of random dots. The higher the number (setting) the weaker the
echoes which are erased.

A- SCOPE: Turns the A-scope display on/off. Default setting is OFF. See paragraph 4.10.2.

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This chapter provides menu operating information on menus not previously discussed:
COM1, COM2, PRESET (or SHORT-CUT, depending on the setting of CUSTOM KEY on
the SYSTEM SETTING 1 menu) and SYS (System) menu.

5.1 COM1 Menu

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press ▲ to choose MENU, and then press ◄ to choose COM1.

MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

TX POWER MAX
PULSELENGTH LONG
TX RATE 10
INT REJECT OFF
AGC OFF
AUDIO LEVEL 0

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

COM1 menu
3. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose item; ◄ or ► to open associated dialog box.
4. Press ◄ or ► to choose option desired.
5. Press ▲ or ▼ to return to the COM1 menu, or press the MENU key to register your
selection and close the menu.

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5.1.1 COM1 menu description

TX POWER: Chooses transmitter output power to maximum or minimum. The default
setting is "maximum." For further details see paragraph 2.12.1.

PULSELENGTH: Chooses pulselength to short or long (default setting). For details see
paragraph 2.12.2.

TX RATE: The Tx rate may be set between 1-10 (default setting: 10) in the case of the
internal transmitter, or an external synchronous signal may be used. The higher the number
the greater the number of transmissions. For operation in shallow waters, choose the Tx
rate which displays the second reflection from the bottom between the sea surface and
bottom. For use of an external video sounder or sonar, choose EXT.

INT REJECT: Turns the interference rejector on (high freq, low freq or both low and high
freq) or off (default setting). When turned on appears at the top of the screen. Note
that the interference rejector cannot be turned on/off independently for each frequency in
case of the dual-frequency display. For further details about interference rejection, see
paragraph 2.12.5 (horizontal display) and 3.12.2 (vertical scan display).

AGC: Automatically lowers sensitivity against strong echoes such as those from the bottom
and large fish schools to emphasize weak echoes such as those from fish close to the
bottom. The default setting is OFF.

AUDIO LEVEL: Adjusts the audio level (0-10) of the external loudspeaker (option).
Sometimes you may be preoccupied with other tasks and unable to concentrate on
watching the sonar picture. In such cases it would be a good choice to use the audio
function. This function enables you to monitor echoes from fish schools and seabed through
the built-in speaker. After you’ve become accustomed to monitoring fish aurally, you should
be able to detect a fish school from a range longer than you can detect it on the screen. In
addition you may judge whether the fish school is approaching or going away; the tone
becomes higher when the school is approaching and lowers when the school is going away.

Note: If a dual-frequency display is active, the frequency sound from the left-side display*
(for the dual-frequency vertical scan display the top display) is output.

*: Dual-frequency horizontal display, dual-frequency horizontal expansion, dual frequency

echo sounder

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5.2 COM2 Menu

5.2.1 Displaying the COM2 menu
1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press ▲ to choose MENU, and then press ◄ or ► to choose COM2.

MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

DELETING TRACK NO
MIX MODE STANDARD
WHITE MARKER OFF
SIG LEVEL OFF
COLOR 16
BKGD COLOR 2
BEARING READOUT RELATIVE

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

COM2 menu

5.2.2 COM2 menu description

DELETING TRACK: Choose ON to delete all ship’s track (from horizontal and
horizontal/video plotter displays).

MIX MODE: Choose how to process the mix display. “STANDARD” displays high frequency
level when high frequency signal is larger than low frequency signal, which is useful for
finding absolute echo level. “EMPHASIS” displays difference in level when high frequency
signal is larger than low frequency signal, which is useful for finding difference in echo level
between low and high frequencies. Default setting is STANDARD.

WHITE MARKER: Displays desired echo in white. It is useful for discriminating bottom fish
from the bottom echo. The setting range for the 8-color display is OFF, 1-7, and for the
16-color display, OFF, 1-15.

SIG LEVEL: Refer to page 2-16.

COLOR: Chooses 8- or 16-color display.

BKGD COLOR: Chooses color of background, text and menu. Three choices are available
and these are shown in the table below.

BKGD COLOR Background Text Menu

1 Black Gray Dark-blue
2 Dark-blue White Medium blue
3 White Black Gray

BEARING READOUT: Chooses how to display bearing of markers (cursor, event marker,
bearing marker), in Relative or True bearing. True bearing requires heading data.

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5.3 Short-cut Menu, Preset Menu

These menus program the CUSTOM MODE keys [1], [2] and [3], and one of the menus
appears according to the setting of CUSTOM KEY on the SYSTEM SETTING 1 menu.
Short-cut key: One-touch activation of corresponding dialog box. This is the default setting.
Preset key: One-touch setup of mode, sector, train, range, tilt and speed controls. Below
are the default settings for PRESET.

CUSTOM Display Mode Frequency Sector Train Range (m)* Tilt

MODE key
Key 1 Horizontal expansion LO 240° 0° 200 30°
Key 2 Horizontal HI 360° 0° 200 30°
Key 3 Vertical scan LO 180° 90° 120 90°

5.3.1 Choosing short-cut or preset

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press ▲ to choose MENU, and then press ► to choose SYS.
MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS
GO TO SYS MENU YES NO

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

Display for opening system menu

3. Press ▼ to choose GO TO SYS MENU.
4. Press ◄ to choose YES.

** SYSTEM MENU **
SYSTEM SETTING:
RANGE-SONAR MODE
RANGE-VERTICAL MODE
RANGE-E/S MODE
RANGE-TRACK MODE
COLOR PALETTE
LANGUAGE
SYSTEM BACKUP
LOAD BACKUP DATA
HEADING OFFSET, DRAFT OFFSET
ADJ MOTION SENSOR
TX FREQ ADJUST
TEST
TEST PATTERN
DEMO MODE
DEFAULT

: SELECT : MENU DISPLAY MENU: END

System menu

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5. Press ► to open the SYSTEM SETTING menu.

** SYSTEM SETTING 1 **

MENU 1 2
POSITION : SHIP'S L/L SHIP'S LOP CURSOR L/L
TRACK : OFF ON
CURRENT DATA : OFF FLOW FROM FLOW TO
HEADING INDICATION : TRUE AZ
NORTH MARK : OFF ON
CSE DATA : NAV GYRO
NAV DATA : GPS LoranC LoranA DR DECCA OTHERS
NAV2 BAUDRATE : 4800 9600 19200 38400
TVG CORRECTION : OFF 1/2 1/1
UNIT : m ft fa HIRO P/B
TEMP : C F
TARGET L/L : OFF ON
CUSTOM KEY : PRESET KEY SHORT-CUT KEY
ETA MARK : OFF 10sec 30sec 1min 3min 6min

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

System setting 1 menu

6. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose CUSTOM KEY.
7. Press ◄ or ► to choose PRESET KEY or SHORT-CUT KEY as desired.
8. Press the MENU key twice to register your selection and close the menu.

5.3.2 Preset key

1. Choose PRESET KEY following the procedure in paragraph 5.2.1.
2. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
3. Press ▲ to choose MENU, and then press ◄ or ► to choose PRESET.
MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES PRESET SYS

MODE FREQ. SECTOR TRAIN RANGE TILT

PRESENT HI 360° 0° 200 30°

CUSTOM1 LO 240° 0° 200 30°

CUSTOM2 HI 360° 0° 200 30°

CUSTOM3 HI 180° 90° 200 90°

ADJUST THE KNOBS AND FUNCTION KEYS TO THE DESIRED SETTING,

THEN PRESS A CUSTOM MODE KEY TO SAVE THE SETTING.
FUNCTION KEY: ENTRY MENU: END

PRESET menu

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4. Set the MODE, HI/LO, SECTOR, TRAIN, RANGE and TILT controls according to target
fish or fishing area.
5. Press the CUSTOM MODE keys [1], [2] or [3] to program. You are asked if you want to
save the settings to the custom key pressed. (In the example, the custom key [1] was
pressed.)

SAVE THE SETTING TO CUSTOM1 KEY?

NO YES

: CHANGE MENU: END

6. Press ► to choose YES.

7. Press the MENU key. The message “PRGM SET” appears at the screen top.
8. Press the MENU key to finish.

Activating the custom mode

1. Press appropriate CUSTOM MODE key. The indication CUSTOM1, CUSTOM2 or
CUSTOM3 appears at the top of the screen depending on key pressed.
2. To escape from the custom mode operation, operate any of the controls among MODE,
SECTOR, TRAIN, RANGE, TILT and FAST SCAN.

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5.3.3 Short-cut key

The default settings are key [1], interference rejector; key [2], signal level, and key [3],
background color. The operator may change their functions as desired.

Note: In the combination modes the short-cut key operation is only possible from the main
window.

1. Choose SHORT-CUT following the procedure in paragraph 5.2.1.

2. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
3. Press ▲ to choose MENU, and then press ◄ or ► to choose SHORT-CUT.

MENU COM1 COM2 HORZ VERT ES SHORT-CUT SYS

VER SEARCH VOLUME DEL TRACK AUTO TILT BKGD

KEY 1 SIG LEVEL CLUTTER RES. COLOR WHITE MARKER
VER SEARCH VOLUME DEL TRACK AUTO TILT BKGD
KEY 2 SIG LEVEL CLUTTER RES. COLOR WHITE MARKER
VER SEARCH VOLUME DEL TRACK AUTO TILT BKGD
KEY 3
SIG LEVEL CLUTTER RES. COLOR WHITE MARKER

SELECT FUNCTION TO BE ALLOCATED TO EACH CUSTOM KEY.

CUSTOM KEY MAY BE USED AS A PRESET KEY.
: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

SHORT-CUT menu
4. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose key to preset. For example choose KEY 1.
5. Press ◄ or ► to choose item.
6. Press the MENU key to finish.

Activating a short-cut key

1. Press a CUSTOM MODE key, and the dialog box programmed for the custom key
pressed appears. For example, the dialog box below is for CLUTTER (HORZ).
CLUTTER (HORZ): 0 1 2 3

2. Press ◄ or ► to choose option desired.

3. Press the MENU key to close the dialog box.

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VERTICAL SEARCH FUNCTION

When you find a target of interest on the horizontal display, simply press the
function key programmed for VER. SEARCH to get a cross-sectional view of
the vertical plane. This mode is useful for evaluating fish school concentration
and location of the targeted fish school or for assistance in navigation.

HI

Fish
School

The vertical search picture is drawn using the following specifications:

- Horizontal range: Same as set on horizontal mode

- Vertical range: Same as set on horizontal mode
- Train marker: Train angle at the moment function key is turned on
- Vertical scan display range: 0-90 degrees (own ship position shifted leftward)

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5.4 SYSTEM Menu

This menu provides items which may be set according to operator’s preference. A
demonstration mode is provided to acquaint you with the many functions of this equipment,
and it may be used without connection of the transducer.

5.4.1 How to open the SYSTEM menu

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press ▲ to choose MENU, and then press ► to choose SYS.
3. Press ▼ to choose GO TO SYS MENU.
4. Press ◄ to choose YES.

** SYSTEM MENU **
SYSTEM SETTING:
RANGE-SONAR MODE
RANGE-VERTICAL MODE
RANGE-E/S MODE
RANGE-TRACK MODE
COLOR PALETTE
LANGUAGE
SYSTEM BACKUP
LOAD BACKUP DATA
HEADING OFFSET, DRAFT OFFSET
Adjusted at installation.
ADJ MOTION SENSOR
See installation manual.
TX FREQ ADJUST
TEST
See Chapter 6.
TEST PATTERN
DEMO MODE
DEFAULT

: SELECT : MENU DISPLAY MENU: END

System menu
5. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose item desired.
6. Press ◄ or ► to open corresponding dialog box.
7. Press ◄ or ► to choose option.
8. Press the MENU key twice to register your selection and close the menu.

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5.4.2 System setting menus

SYSTEM SETTING 1 menu
1. Display the SYSTEM menu and press ▲ or ▼ to choose SYSTEM SETTING.
2. Press ►.
3. Press ▲ to MENU.
4. Press ◄ to choose “1.”
** SYSTEM SETTING 1 **

MENU 1 2
POSITION : SHIP'S L/L SHIP'S LOP CURSOR L/L
TRACK : OFF ON
CURRENT DATA : OFF FLOW FROM FLOW TO
HEADING INDICATION : TRUE AZ
NORTH MARK : OFF ON
CSE DATA : NAV GYRO
NAV DATA : GPS LoranC LoranA DR DECCA OTHERS
NAV2 BAUDRATE : 4800 9600 19200 38400
TVG CORRECTION : OFF 1/2 1/1
UNIT : m ft fa HIRO P/B
TEMP : C F
TARGET L/L : OFF ON
CUSTOM KEY : PRESET KEY SHORT-CUT KEY
ETA MARK : OFF 10sec 30sec 1min 3min 6min

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

System setting 1 menu

SYSTEM SETTING 1 menu description

POSITION: Chooses how to displays ship’s position; latitude and longitude, Decca/Loran C
LOP or Cursor L/L. (The connected navigator must be capable of displaying L/L or LOP.)
The default setting is latitude and longitude. Position data required.

TRACK: Turns the track display on or off on the horizontal display. The track is always
shown on the video plotter display regardless of this setting.

CURRENT DATA: Turns current data (tide), shown by vector, on or off. FLOW FROM
shows from what direction the current is flowing; FLOW TO shows the direction the current
is heading. The default setting is OFF. Requires a current indicator.

Current Vector

FLOW FROM FLOW TO

Current vector

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HEADING INDICATION: Chooses heading indication format, true (default setting) or

azimuth, for the echo sounder and vertical scan modes. The default setting is TRUE.
Requires heading data.

NORTH MARK: Turns the north marker on or off (default setting). Requires heading data.

CSE DATA: Chooses heading data source, navigator or gyrocompass, to draw ship’s track.
The default setting is navigator. For heading sensor or gyrocompass connection, choose
gyrocompass.

NAV DATA: Chooses source of position data, GPS, Loran C, Loran A, DR (Dead
Reckoning), Decca or Others (for equipment not shown, receives talker only). Default
setting is GPS.

NAV2 BAUDRATE: Sets the baud rate of the NMEA port on transceiver unit. Default setting
is 4800 bps. For connection with satellite compass, choose 38400 bps.

TVG CORRECTION: This feature raises long-range sensitivity without disturbing short-
range sensitivity, and it is particularly effective on high frequency. For dual frequency use,
particularly when you feel that sensitivity on the high frequency is low compared to that on
the low frequency, adjust TVG correction for the high frequency. The settings available are
OFF, 1/2 and 1/1, in ascending order of strength. If the setting is too strong, noise will result.
Watch the display while changing this setting.
If noise exists on short range or if the echo strength of like size fish from long and short
ranges is different use the TVG feature. For further details, see 2.12.3, 3.12.1 and 4.10.1.

UNIT: Chooses unit of depth measurement: meters (default setting), feet, fathoms,
passi/braza, Hiro.

TEMP: Chooses unit of water temperature measurement: °C (default setting), °F.

TARGET L/L: Turn on to output event marker position to external equipment. Requires
heading and latitude and longitude data from external equipment. Default setting is OFF.

CUSTOM KEY: Chooses function of custom mode keys: preset (default setting) or short-cut.
For details see paragraph 5.2.

ETA MARK: A vector line extends from the own ship marker in direction of ship’s bow on
the horizontal mode display. The tip of the line shows the estimated time of arrival after the
selected ETA time elapses, using the current ship’s speed. ETA is calculated every second
considering tilt and detection range. This function requires speed input.

ETA mark

ETA marker

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SYSTEM SETTING 2 menu description

** SYSTEM SETTING 2 **

MENU : 1 2
GAIN SETTING PROTECT : OFF ON
HORZ/HISTORY : OFF ON

HORZ/VERT : OFF ON
HORZ/VERT ZOOM : OFF ON
HORZ/PLOTTER : OFF ON
EMPHASIS MODE : OFF NORMAL RED

STABILIZER : OFF MOTION SENSOR SAT. COMPASS

AUTO RETRACTION : OFF (OFF, 5-15 kt)
SPEED ALARM/MESSAGE: OFF ON
SWEEP INDICATOR : DOT LINE
DEFAULT SETTING : NO YES
MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE SPEED IS 15 KNOTS WHILE SOUNDOME IS BEING
RETRACTED. IF VESSEL HAS RAPID ACCELERATION CAPABILITIES,
AUTO RETRACTION SETTINGS OF 10-12 KNOTS ARE MANDATORY TO
AVOID CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE TO SOUNDOME ASSY. ANY PHYSICAL
DAMAGE TO THE SOUNDOME ASSY. IS CONSIDERED ABUSE AND
IS NOT A WARRANTY ISSUE.

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

System setting 2 menu

GAIN SETTING PROTECT: Prevents accidental adjustment of the gain. When ON the gain
cannot be adjusted unless the GAIN control is first pushed. Default setting is ON. This
feature is effective on the single-frequency displays and combination displays (mix display
OFF).

HORZ/HISTORY: Enables/disables the horizontal/history display. Default setting is ON.

HORZ/VERT: Enables/disables the horizontal/vertical scan display. Default setting is ON.

HORZ/VERT ZOOM: Enables/disables the horizontal/vertical zoom display. Default setting

is ON.

HORZ/PLOTTER: Enables/disables the horizontal/plotter display. Default setting is ON.

EMPHASIS MODE: Choose method of picture interpolation. OFF: Interpolation close to raw
signal. NORMAL: Clarifies picture. EMPHASIS: Emphasizes strong signals.

STABILIZER: Choose the sensor to use to compensate for effects of ship’s pitching and
rolling. The choices are Motion Sensor MS-100, Clinometer BS-704 and Satellite Compass
(SC-50/SC-110).

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AUTO RETRACTION: Turn on to automatically retract the transducer when ship’s speed
exceeds the speed set here. The ship’s speed range for automatic retraction is from 5 to 15
knots. The default setting is OFF (no automatic retraction). The transducer may be retracted
at a speed other than the intended one when ship’s speed data is erroneous.

SPEED ALARM/MESSAGE: Turn on (default setting) to display speed alarm message and
sound the audio alarm when ship’s speed exceeds allowable speed for a given transducer
operation. The audio alarm can be silenced with the R/B key.

[↓] pressed to lower transducer

Message 1 appears. Reduce speed below 15 kts to restore
Speed above 15 kts
normal operation.
Transducer being lowered
Speed over 15 kts Message 1 appears and lowering continues.
Transducer lowered
Message 2 appears accompanied with the aural alarm. Reduce
Speed above 20 kts
the speed below 20 kts to restore normal operation.
[↑] pressed to raise transducer
Message 1 appears accompanied with the aural alarm.
Transducer is not raised. Reduce the speed below 15 kts to
Speed above 15 kts
erase the message and restore normal operation. Then, press [↑]
again to raise the transducer.
Transducer being raised
Message 1 appears and raising continues. Reduce the speed
Speed above 15 kts
below 15 kts to erase the message and restore normal operation.

SHIPS SPEED
TRANSDUCER REMAINS
EXCEEDS 15 kt.
LOWERED.
(SLOW DOWN UNDER 15 kt WHEN
(REDUCE SHIP'S SPEED AND PRESS
MOVING TRANSDUCER UNIT.)
↑ TO RETRACT IT.)

PRESS R/B KEY TO SILENCE ALARM.

PRESS R/B KEY TO SILENCE ALARM.

Message 1 Message 2
SWEEP INDICATOR: Shows train position in the horizontal mode and tilt angle in the
vertical scan mode, with a line or a dot. (See the illustration on page 2-2 and 3-2.)

DEFAULT SETTING: Choose YES and press the MENU key to restore all default system
menu settings. Several beeps sound while default settings are being restored and then
normal operation is restored.

** FACTORY SETTING **

ARE YOU SURE? : NO YES

NOTE! ALL THE SYSTEM SETTING WILL BE CHANGED

TO FACTORY SETTING.

: CHANGE MENU: END

FACTORY SETTING dialog box

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5.4.3 Sonar (horizontal) mode range settings

The user may preset horizontal mode ranges as desired.

1. Choose RANGE-SONAR MODE at the SYS menu and then press ►.

** RANGE-SONAR MODE **
1 : 20 (10-1600m)
2 : 40
3 : 60
4 : 80
5 : 100
6 : 120
7 : 160
8 : 200
9 : 250
10 : 300
11 : 400
12 : 500
13 : 600
14 : 800
15 : 1200

DEFAULT SETTING : NO YES

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

Range-sonar mode dialog box

2. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose range number desired.
3. Press ◄ or ► to set range.
4. To restore default horizontal mode range settings, choose DEFAULT SETTING, press ►
to choose YES and press the MENU key.
5. Press the MENU key to register settings and close the menu.

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5.4.4 Vertical scan mode range settings

As with the horizontal mode, the user may preset the vertical scan mode’s ranges.

1. Choose RANGE-VERTICAL MODE at the SYS menu and then press ►.

** RANGE-VERT MODE **
1 : 10 (10-600m)
2 : 20
3 : 30
4 : 40
5 : 60
6 : 80
7 : 100
8 : 120
9 : 160
10 : 200
11 : 250
12 : 300
13 : 400
14 : 500
15 : 600

DEFAULT SETTING : NO YES

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

Range-vert mode dialog box

2. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose range number desired.
3. Press ◄ or ► to set range.
4. To restore default vertical scan mode range settings, choose DEFAULT SETTING, press
► to choose YES and press the MENU key.
5. Press the MENU key to register settings and close the menu.

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5.4.5 Echo sounder mode range settings

As with the horizontal and vertical scan modes, the user may preset the echo sounder
mode’s ranges.

1. Choose RANGE-E/S MODE at the SYS menu and then press ►.

** RANGE-E/S MODE **
1 : 10 (10-600m)
2 : 20
3 : 30
4 : 40
5 : 60
6 : 80
7 : 100
8 : 120
9 : 160
10 : 200
11 : 250
12 : 300
13 : 400
14 : 500
15 : 600

DEFAULT SETTING : NO YES

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

Range-E/S mode dialog box

2. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose range number desired.
3. Press ◄ or ► to set range. The setting range depends on the transducer used.
4. To restore default echo sounder mode range settings, choose DEFAULT SETTING,
press ► to choose YES and press the MENU key.
5. Press the MENU key to register settings and close the menu.

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5.4.6 Track range settings

You may choose the video plotter display scale range as follows.

1. Choose RANGE-TRACK at the SYS menu and then press ►.

** RANGE-TRACK MODE **
1 : 500 (100-10000m)
2 : 1000
3 : 2000
4 : 4000
5 : 8000

DEFAULT SETTING : NO YES

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

Range-track mode dialog box

2. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose range number desired.
3. Press ◄ or ► to set.
4. Press the MENU key to register settings and close the menu.

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5.4.7 Color palette

The color palette lets the user change the color of echoes, background, text and menu as
desired.
Cursor

** COLOR PALETTE **
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
ECHO
Arrow
BKGD TEXT MENU BKGD TEXT MENU BKGD TEXT MENU
BKGD1 BKGD2 BKGD3

COLOR : ECHO 1
R : 3
G : 6
B : 13

DEFAULT SETTING : NO YES (ECHO & BKGD COLORS WILL BE CHANGED)

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

Color palette dialog box

1. Press ◄ or ► to place the cursor and arrow on the item to change. Pressing ► shifts
the arrow and cursor from left to right and top to bottom.
2. Press ▲ or ▼ to choose R(red), G(green) or B(blue) as appropriate.
3. Press ◄ or ► to adjust color.
4. Press the MENU key to register your settings and close the menu.

Note: To restore default color settings, choose DEFAULT SETTING, press ► to choose
YES, and press the MENU key. A few beeps sound while the default colors are being
restored and then normal operation is restored.

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5.4.8 Language
Menu language can chosen from among the languages shown in the Language dialog box
and the default language is English.

** LANGUAGE **

LANGUAGE: JAPANESE ENGLISH FRANCAIS ESPANOL

ITALIANO PORTUGUES DANSK NORSK
SVENSK THAI

: CHANGE MENU: END

Language dialog box

5.4.9 System backup

User settings can be backed up with the menu item SYSTEM BACKUP.

** SYSTEM BACKUP **

ARE YOU SURE? : NO YES

NOTE: OVERWRITES PREVIOUS BACKUP DATA.

: CHANGE MENU: END

System backup dialog box

5.4.10 Loading backup data

System data may be loaded from the LOAD BACKUP DATA dialog box.

** LOAD BACKUP DATA **

ARE YOU SURE? : NO YES

NOTE: OVERWRITES CURRENT SETTINGS.

: CHANGE MENU: END

Load backup data dialog box

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5.4.11 Transducer frequency adjustment

If the CH-300 is receiving interference from a video sounder or other sonar on board your
ship, adjust the frequency of the CH-300’s transducer to reduce the interference.

** TX FREQ ADJUST **

FREQ SHIFT (L) : 85.0 kHz (85-95 kHz)

FREQ SHIFT (H) : 215.0 kHz (205-225 kHz)

: SELECT : CHANGE MENU: END

TX frequency adjustment dialog box

5.4.12 Demonstration mode

The demonstration mode provides a simulated sonar picture which helps you become
acquainted with how your sonar works. Connection of the transducer is not required. All
controls are operational.
1. Display the SYS menu.
2. Choose DEMO MODE.
3. Press ► to open the menu.

** DEMO MODE **

DEMO MODE : OFF ON

: CHANGE MENU: END

Demo mode dialog box

4. Choose OFF or ON as appropriate and press the MENU key. (DEMO) appears at the
top of the screen when the demonstration mode is active.

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5.4.13 Restoring all default settings

The item DEFAULT lets you restore all default menu settings. Choose YES and press the
MENU key to restore all default settings. Note that SOUNDOME SER. NO (SYSTEM
SETTING2 menu) and the contents stored by using the SYSTEM BACKUP feature
(paragraph 5.4.9) are not disturbed.

** DEFAULT **

ARE YOU SURE? : NO YES

NOTE! RESET ALL THE SETTINGS INCLUDED IN SYSTEM MENU

TO DEFAULT.

: CHANGE MENU: END

Default menu

CAUTION
All default settings will be restored.
If necessary jot down settings which
must be restored.

Note: The following appears after the power-up following the restoration of default settings.

Please set language.

([S/T]: Select, [MENU]: Enter)

... For Japanese Customer

In Japanese)

(Japanese)
English
Francais

Language selection screen

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TROUBLESHOOTING

This chapter provides information necessary for keeping the equipment in good working
order.

WARNING
ELECTRICAL SHOCK HAZARD
Do not open the equipment.

Only qualified personnel

should work inside the
equipment.

6.1 Preventive Maintenance

Check the following points monthly.
• Check all cables. If damaged, replace.
• Check connectors at rear of each unit. Clean if necessary.
• Check earth of each unit. Clean if necessary.
• Check voltage of ship’s mains to be sure it is within the equipment’s power rating.

6.2 Cleaning the Equipment

Dust or dirt can be removed from the equipment with a soft, dry cloth. Do not use chemical
cleaners to clean the equipment – they can remove paint and markings. The LCD will, in
time, accumulate a coating of dust which tends to dim the picture. Wipe LCD lightly with soft
cloth to remove dust.

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6.3 Hull Unit Maintenance

6.3.1 Lubrication
Grease the raise/lower screw shaft once a year. Also, grease the raise/lower main shaft
(upper part of the grease cotton retainer) twice a year. These parts can be accessed by
removing the raise/lower drive assembly cover.

6.3.2 Manually raising, lowering transducer

WARNING
Turn off the power at the ship's mains
switchboard before conducting the
procedure below.

Rotating motor can cause bodily injury.

1. Turn off the breaker on the hull unit.

2. Turn nut with 19 mm ratchet wrench.
3. Check that the transducer raises and lowers smoothly, from the upper to the lower limit
positions. If the transducer cannot be raised smoothly, do not use excessive force; the
shaft may bend, causing damage to other components.
4. Check soundome and tank. Remove marine life with fine sandpaper or piece of wood.

Attach ratchet
wrench here.

Hull unit

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6.4 Transducer Maintenance

When the ship is dry-docked remove marine growth from the transducer with fine
sandpaper or a piece of wood. Coat the transducer face with anti-fouling paint (Chugoku
MarineStar 20 Red or the equivalent)

NOTICE
Do not paint the transducer face.

Loss of sensitivity will result.

Do not use plastic solvents to clean the

transducer.

They can damage the transducer.

6.5 Fuse Replacement

The fuse in the hull and transceiver units protect them from overvoltage, equipment fault
and reverse polarity of the ship’s mains. If the power cannot be applied first check that the
power cable between the transceiver unit and the monitor unit is firmly connected. If the
power still cannot be applied, the fuse in the transceiver unit may have blown. Have a
suitably qualified technician check the fuse.

Unit Type Code No.

Transceiver Unit FGMB 10A AC125V 000-104-815
Hull Unit FGMB 7A 125V 000-105-868
Monitor Unit FGMB 3A 125V 000-104-909
Interface Unit FGMB 0.2A 125V 000-121-723

WARNING
Use the proper fuse.

Use of a wrong fuse can cause fire or

damage the equipment.

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6.6 Troubleshooting
The table below provides common symptoms of equipment troubles and the means to
rectify them.

Symptom Check, Remedy

Cannot turn on the • Check cable between transceiver unit and monitor unit.
power. • Check ship’s mains.
• Have a suitably qualified technician check the fuse in the
transceiver unit.
Bottom echo • Rough seas. Distance to the bottom changes due to rolling and
becomes irregular. pitching.
• Long range selected. Transmission period is longer so ship’s
pitching and rolling are apt to affect detection of echo.
Weak echo • Output power set to minimum. Set to maximum, on the COM1
menu.
• Excessive TVG. Readjust TVG on the appropriate menu (HORZ,
VERT, ES). Note that readjustment of TVG is necessary when gain
is adjusted.
Somewhat strange • Brilliance setting too low. Increase brightness with BRILL key
color (supplied monitor) or brilliance control on commercial monitor.
Picture contains • Equipment not grounded properly. Check equipment ground.
noise. • Power cable is too close to the signal cable. Relocate power cable
or signal cable.
• Debris may be on sea surface. Reject unwanted noise with the
interference rejector on the COM1 menu.
Picture does not • Problem in tilt mechanism or control line. Contact a FURUNO agent
change when tilt or dealer for advice.
angle is changed.
(Bottom is not
displayed in vertical
scan picture when
bottom is flat.)

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6.7 Error Messages

The table below shows the error messages which may appear on the display. All error
messages are accompanied by an audio alarm, which you may silence with the R/B key.

Message Meaning, Remedy

Hull Unit
HULL UNIT Hull unit is not powered. Silence the audio
POWER OFF alarm with the R/B key, and then turn on the
(CHECK BREAKER AND FUSE.) hull unit to erase the message and restore
PRESS R/B KEY TO SILENCE ALARM. normal operation.
RAISE/LOWER FUNCTION HAS NOT BEEN You attempted to raise or lower the
COMPLETED. transducer when the ship’s speed is above
CHECK IF THE BREAKER AT THE HULL UNIT 15 knots or the breaker on the hull unit
HAS BEEN ACTIVATED. tripped. Check the breaker and lower the
MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE SPEED IS 15 KNOTS ship’s speed below 15 knots to execute
WHILE SOUNDOME IS BEING RETRACTED. function desired.
PRESS R/B KEY TO SILENCE ALARM.
Frequency Code Error
FREQUENCY CODE ERROR CPU does not receive frequency flag from
(CHECK TRANSCEIVER UNIT.) transducer. Silence the audio alarm with the
PRESS R/B KEY TO SILENCE ALARM. R/B key, and then check the transceiver
unit.
Train Error
TRAIN NG CPU does not receive heading signal.
Check source of heading signal.
Excessive Speed
SHIPS SPEED EXCEEDS 15 kt. See page 5-13 for details.
(SLOW DOWN UNDER 15 kt WHEN MOVING
TRANSDUCER.)
PRESS R/B KEY TO SILENCE ALARM.
TRANSDUCER REMAINS LOWERED.
(REDUCE SHIP'S SPEED AND PRESS ↑ TO
RETRACT IT.)
PRESS R/B KEY TO SILENCE ALARM.

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6.8 Diagnostics
1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.
2. Press ▲ to choose MENU, and then press ► to choose SYS.
3. Press ▼ to choose GO TO SYS MENU.
4. Press ◄ to choose YES.
5. Choose TEST and press ► to start the test. The lamps above the XDR switches light
alternately for one second while the test is being conducted. In a few moments the
results of the test appear.

MAIN PROGRAM NO. : 0650111-XX.XX

PANEL PROGRAM NO. : 0650112-XX.XX
ROM : OK
RAM : OK
VRAM : OK
NMEA1 :*
NMEA2 :*
TX FREQUENCY : 85/215 kHz†
ROLL MS : 10 SC: - - -
PITCH MS : 10 SC: - - -
PULSES NG
TRAIN 359 0
TEST COUNT= : 10
REMOTE CONTROL
PANEL

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 EXIT
0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0

* Requires special test connector to test. Nothing displayed when plug is not connected.
† Or 60/153 kHz
XX.XX = Program Version No.
Test results
Interpreting the test results display
• The program numbers of the MAIN and PANEL programs appear at the top of the display.
• The ROM, RAM, VRAM, NMEA1, NMEA2 and PANEL CPU are checked for proper
operation and the results displayed as OK or NG (No Good). For NG contact a FURUNO
agent or dealer for advice. The NMEA1/NMEA2 test checks the NMEA (monitor unit) /
NMEA (transceiver unit) ports.
• The TX FREQUENCY of the transducer is measured and displayed.
• ROLL and PITCH values change with ship’s pitching and rolling (range: -30° to +30°).

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• TRAIN shows a figure between 355-359 if normal. NG appears in case of train error.
• TEST COUNT shows the number of times the test has been consecutively executed.
• At the bottom of the screen there are two major groups of zeroes (0), and they represent
the keys and controls on the control panel and remote controller. Press a key and its
on-screen location shows “1” while the key is pressed and “0” when it is released.
Operate a control and its on-screen indication changes from 0-19. When the BRILL
control is operated the panel dimmer increases or decreases with adjustment of the
control.
To quit the test, press the MENU key three times.

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6.9 Test Pattern

A test pattern can be displayed to check for proper display of colors.

1. Press the MENU key to open the menu.

2. Press ▲ to choose MENU, and then press ► to choose SYS.
3. Press ▼ to choose GO TO SYS MENU.
4. Press ◄ to choose YES.
5. Choose TEST PATTERN and press ► to display the test pattern. Press ► again to
change the test pattern. The pattern changes in the sequence shown below with each
press of ►.

16 tones 16 tones 16 tones

of RED of GREEN of BLUE WHITE

RED

BLACK BLUE GREEN

Test pattern
To quit the test pattern, press the MENU key.

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[MENU] key

COM1 menu TX POWER (MAX, MIN)

PULSELENGTH (LONG, SHORT)
TX RATE (EXTERNAL, 1-10; 10)
INT REJECT (OFF, ON)
AGC (OFF, ON) DEFAULT SETTINGS
AUDIO LEVEL (0-10) SHOWN IN BOLD ITALIC.

COM2 menu DELETING TRACK (NO, YES)

MIX MODE (STANDARD, EMPHASIS)
WHITE MARKER (8-color: OFF, 1-7; 16-color: OFF, 1-15)
SIG LEVEL (8-color: OFF, 1-6; 16-color: OFF, 1-14)
COLOR (16, 8)
BKGD COLOR (1, 2, 3)
BEARING READOUT (RELATIVE, TRUE)

HORZ menu TVG LEVEL (0-10, 4.0)

TVG DISTANCE (0-10, 4.0)
RES. COLOR (LOG, LINEAR, SQUARE, CUBE)
CLUTTER (0, 1, 2, 3)
TARGET KEY (POSITION, ECHO, REVERSE)
LOCK MODE (AUTO, MANUAL)
AUTO TILT (OFF, ±2°, ±4°, ±6°, ±10°)

VERT menu TVG LEVEL (0-10, 4.0)

TVG DISTANCE (0-10, 4.0)
RES. COLOR (LOG, LINEAR, SQUARE, CUBE)
CLUTTER (0, 1, 2, 3)
HORZ SCAN RATE (1, 2, 3, 4)
VERT SCAN RATE (1, 2, 3, 4)
HORZ RANGE (x1, x2)

ES menu TVG LEVEL (0-10, 4.0)

TVG DISTANCE (0-10, 4.0)
RES. COLOR (LOG, LINEAR, SQUARE, CUBE)
CLUTTER (0, 1, 2, 3)
A-SCOPE (OFF, ON)

(When SHORT-CUT KEY is selected at SYSTEM SETTING 1 menu.)

SHORT-CUT menu KEY1 (VER SEARCH, VOLUME, DEL TRACK, AUTO TILT, BKGD
SIG LEVEL, CLUTTER, RES. COLOR, WHITE MARKER)
KEY2 (Same choices as KEY1. Default setting: VOLUME)
KEY3 (Same choices as KEY1. Default setting: DEL TRACK)

PRESET menu CUSTOM1 (MODE: HORIZONTAL EXPANSION, FREQ: HI, SECTOR: 240°,
(Default setting)
TRAIN: 0°, RANGE (m): 200, TILT: 30°)
CUSTOM2 (MODE: HORIZONTAL, FREQ: HIGH, SECTOR: 360° ,
TRAIN: 0°, RANGE (m): 200, TILT: 30°)
CUSTOM3 (MODE: VERTICAL, FREQ: HIGH, SECTOR: 180°,
TRAIN: 90°, RANGE (m): 200, TILT: 90°)

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SYSTEM menu SYSTEM SETTING (See below.)

RANGE-SONAR MODE (all default ranges)

m: 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 160, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800, 1200
ft: 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000, 3000, 4000
fa: 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 700
P/B, Hiro: 10, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 160, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800
RANGE-VER MODE (all default ranges)
m: 10, 20, 30, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 160, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600
ft: 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800, 1000, 1500, 2000
fa, P/B, Hiro: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200, 250, 300, 400
RANGE-E/S MODE (all default ranges)
m: 10, 20, 30, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 160, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600
ft: 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800, 1000, 1500, 2000
fa, P/B, Hiro: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 80, 100, 120, 140, 160, 200, 250, 300, 400
RANGE-TRACK MODE (all default ranges)
m: 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000
ft: 1000, 2000, 5000, 10,000, 20,000
fa, P/B, Hiro: 200, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000
COLOR PALETTE (Adjusts color of echoes, text and background.)
LANGUAGE (JAPANESE, ENGLISH, FRANCAIS, ESPANOL, ITALIANO, PORTUGUES
DANSK, NORSK, SVENSK, THAI, )
SYSTEM BACKUP (NO, YES)
LOAD BACKUP DATA (NO, YES)
HEADING OFFSET. DRAFT OFFSET (-180°, +180°, 0; 0 - 60 (m), 0)
ADJ MOTION SENSOR (ROLL ANGLE: -10° - +10°, 0; PITCH ANGLE: -10° - +10°, 0)
TX FREQ ADJUST
FREQ SHIFT(L) 60 kHz, 57-63; 60 or 85 kHz: 85-95; 85
FREQ SHIFT(H) 153 kHz: 147-163; 153 or 215 kHz: 205-225; 215
TEST (Checks equipment for proper operation.)
TEST PATTERN (Displays series of test patterns.)
DEMO MODE (OFF, ON)
DEFAULT (NO, YES)

SYSTEM SETTING 1 SYSTEM SETTING 2

POSITION (SHIP'S L/L, SHIP'S LOP, CURSOR L/L) GAIN SETTING PROTECT (OFF, ON)

TRACK (OFF, ON) HORZ/HISTORY (OFF, ON)

CURRENT DATA (OFF, FLOW FROM, FLOW TO) HORZ/VERT (OFF, ON)
HEADING INDICATION (TRUE, AZ) HORZ/VERT ZOOM (OFF, ON)
NORTH MARK (OFF, ON) HORZ/PLOTTER (OFF, ON)
CSE DATA (NAV, GYRO) EMPHASIS MODE (OFF, NORMAL, RED)
NAV BAUDRATE (4800, 9600, 19200, 38400 (bps)) STABILIZER (OFF, MOTION SENSOR, SAT COMPASS)
NAV DATA (GPS, LoranC, LoranA, DR, DECCA, OTHERS) AUTO RETRACTION (OFF, 5-15kt(ON))
TVG CORRECTION (OFF, 1/2, 1/1) SPEED ALARM/MESSAGE (OFF, ON)
UNIT (m, ft, fa, HIRO, P/B) SWEEP INDICATOR (DOT, LINE)
TEMP (°C, °F) DEFAULT SETTING (NO, YES)
TARGET L/L (OFF, ON)
CUSTOM KEY (PRESET KEY, SHORT-CUT KEY)
ETA MARK (OFF, 10sec, 30sec, 1min, 3min, 6min)

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DUAL-FREQUENCY SEARCHLIGHT SONAR

CH-300

1. GENERAL
1.1 Display System 10.4-inch color TFT LCD (or external monitor)
1.2 Transmit Frequency Dual frequency, 60/153 kHz or 85/215 kHz
1.3 Output Power 1.0 kW
1.4 Range (default setting)
Meter Feet Fathom P/B Hiro
Rng
Horz Vert ES Horz Vert ES Horz Vert ES Horz Vert ES Horz Vert ES
1 20 10 10 50 30 30 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10
2 40 20 20 100 60 60 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20
3 60 30 30 200 90 90 40 30 30 40 30 30 40 30 30
4 80 40 40 300 120 120 60 40 40 60 40 40 60 40 40
5 100 60 60 400 150 150 80 50 50 80 50 50 80 50 50
6 120 80 80 500 200 200 100 60 60 100 60 60 100 60 60
7 160 100 100 600 250 250 120 80 80 120 80 80 120 80 80
8 200 120 120 700 300 300 140 100 100 160 100 100 160 100 100
9 250 160 160 800 400 400 160 120 120 200 120 120 200 120 120
10 300 200 200 1000 500 500 200 140 140 250 140 140 250 140 140
11 400 250 250 1200 600 600 250 160 160 300 160 160 300 160 160
12 500 300 300 1500 800 800 300 200 200 400 200 200 400 200 200
13 600 400 400 2000 1000 1000 400 250 250 500 250 250 500 250 250
14 800 500 500 3000 1500 1500 500 300 300 600 300 300 600 300 300
15 1200 600 600 4000 2000 2000 700 400 400 800 400 400 800 400 400
1.5 Minimum and maximum ranges
Horizontal mode
Meter Feet Fathom P/B Hiro
Min. range 10 30 5 5 5
Max. range 1600 5000 800 1000 1000

Vertical scan mode, echo sounder mode

Meter Feet Fathom P/B Hiro
Min. range 10 30 5 5 5
Max. range 600 2000 400 400 400

2. MONITOR/CONTROL UNIT
2.1 Display VGA (640x480)
2.2 Brilliance 350cd/m2 TYP
2.3 Display Colors 16 or 8 colors, Background: 3 colors, selectable (user setting
available)

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2.4 Display Mode Horizontal1, Horizontal expansion1, Vertical scan1, Echo

sounder1, Horizontal2, Horizontal expansion2, Vertical scan2,
Echo sounder2, Combination (vertical scan port/starboard,
vertical scan upward/downward, Strata, History)
2.5 Alphanumerical Indication Range, Tilt angle, Sensitivity, TVG, Interference rejection,
Frequency (high, low), Transducer status, Tracking, Color
2.6 Data Indication L/L (Own ship or cursor), Depth, Bearing, Speed, Water
temperature, Tide, Ship’s track, North mark, Tide vector, ETA
marker (External IEC-61162 data required, not shown on some
displays),
2.7 Other Markers Offcenter, Signal level, White marker, Emphasis, Cursor, VRM,
Event marker (5 pts.), Target lock, Clutter
2.8 Indication Unit Meter, Feet, Fathom, P/B, Hiro
2.9 Audio Monitor 2 W output (4 ohms), Freq. 1.0 kHz (external speaker required)
2.10 Language English and other languages

3. TRANSCEIVER UNIT
3.1 Transmission Dual frequency Tx/Rx, single frequency
3.2 Pulse Length 0.24 ms to 20.0 ms, according to range (up to 10 ms for each
frequency in dual-frequency transmission)
3.3 TVG Level: 100 dB max. , Distance: 1000 m

4. HULL UNIT
4.1 Transducer Travel 400 mm or 250 mm
4.2 Raise/lower Time 30 s (400 mm travel)
4.3 Ship’s Bow Adjustment ±180° offset on menu, set during installation
4.4 Horizontal Mode Control
Scanning angle: 6° to 360°, 24° step
Scanning center: 6° steps, 360° setting available
Scanning step angle: Normal: 6°, High speed: 12°
Elevation angle: +5° to 90°, 1° step
Auto tilt setting: ±2° to ±10°
4.5 Time to Train Full Circle (* NS, Normal Speed, HS, High Speed)
Single frequency, horizontal mode

Range (m) 20 40 60 80 100 120 160 200 250 300 400 500 600 800 1200
Time NS* 9 9 9 9 9 11 14 17 21 25 33 41 49 65 97
(sec) HS* 9 9 9 9 9 11 12 14 16 18 22 26 30 38 54

Dual frequency, horizontal mode

Range (m) 20 40 60 80 100 120 160 200 250 300 400 500 600 800 1200
Time NS* 11 11 11 11 11 12 15 18 22 26 34 42 50 66 98
(sec) HS* 11 11 11 11 11 12 14 15 17 19 23 27 31 39 55

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4.6 Vertical Scan Mode Control

Scanning angle: 6° to 180°, 12° step
Scanning center: 0° to 180°, 6° step
Scanning step angle: Normal: 3°, High speed: 6°
Time to train: 360°, 6° step
4.7 Transceiver Beam Width Frequency Horizontal Vertical
60 kHz: 16°/22° 14°/20°
85 kHz: 11°/15° 10°/14°
153 kHz: 7°/9° 5°/8°
215 kHz: 5°/6° 4°/6°
4.8 Allowable Ship’s Speed 20 knot or less (15 knot during raise/lower operation)
4.9 Stabilization Within 30°, optional motion sensor required

5. I/O INTERFACE
5.1 Data Format IEC61162-1 (NMEA0183 Ver 1.5/2.0)
5.2 Input DBS, DBT, DPT, GGA, GLL, HDG, HDM, HDT, MDA, MTW,
RMA, RMC, VDR, VHW, VTG, att (P sentence)
5.3 Output SSTLL

6. POWER SUPPLY
6.1 MU-100C/Control Unit, Transceiver Unit
12-24 VDC: 7.0-3.5A
6.2 Control Unit, Transceiver Unit
12-24 VDC: 5.0-2.5A
6.3 Hull Unit 12/24 VDC: 4.7/2.3A (16.7/8.2-A, during raising and lowering)

7. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
7.1 Ambient Temperature -15°C to +55°C (Soundome: 0°C to +35°C)
7.2 Relative Humidity Less than 95%
7.3 Waterproofing Control unit: IPX5
Transceiver unit: IPX0
Hull unit: IPX2
MU-100C: IPX5
7.4 Vibration 2 Hz-5Hz to 13.2 Hz: Amplitude: ±1 mm ±10%
13.2 Hz to 100 Hz: Max. acceleration 7m/s2, fixed

8. COATING COLOR
8.1 Control Unit Panel: N3.0, Chassis: 2.5GY5/1.5
8.2 Transceiver Unit 2.5GY5/1.5
8.3 MU-100C Panel: N3.0 Newtone No.5, Chassis: 2.5GY5/1.5

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INDEX
A ES menu ................................................... 4-10
AGC .............................................................5-2 ETA marker ............................................... 5-11
A-scope display ...........................................4-9 EVENT key
Automatic tilt ..............................................2-23 echo sounder mode ................................ 4-5
horizontal mode..................................... 2-11
B vertical scan mode .................................. 3-8
Background color.........................................5-2 Event marker
Backup data deleting from echo sounder display........ 4-6
loading ...................................................5-19 deleting from horizontal display ............ 2-12
saving ....................................................5-19 deleting from vertical scan display.......... 3-9
BRILL control ...............................................1-5 inscribing from echo sounder display ..... 4-6
C inscribing from horizontal display.......... 2-11
Clutter inscribing from vertical scan display ....... 3-8
echosounder mode................................4-10 output on/off .......................................... 5-11
horizontal mode .....................................2-22 F
vertical scan mode ................................3-12 FAST SCAN key
Color palette ..............................................5-18 echo sounder mode ................................ 4-4
Colors horizontal mode....................................... 2-9
background..............................................5-3 vertical scan mode .................................. 3-7
display......................................................5-3 Frequency selection.................................... 1-9
COM1 menu ................................................5-1 FULL/HALF key
COM2 menu ................................................5-3 horizontal mode....................................... 2-4
Control description.......................................1-1 vertical scan mode .................................. 3-5
Course data ...............................................5-11 Fuse replacement ....................................... 6-3
Current (tide) data .....................................5-10
Cursor data G
echo sounder mode.................................4-5 GAIN control.............................................. 1-13
horizontal mode .....................................2-10 Gain setting protection .............................. 5-12
vertical scan mode ..................................3-7
H
Custom key................................................5-11
Heading indication .................................... 5-11
CUSTOM MODE keys
Horizontal range (vertical scan mode)...... 3-13
preset function .........................................5-5
Horizontal range marker
selection of function.................................5-4
(vertical scan mode)............................ 3-9
short-cut function.....................................5-7
Horizontal/history display .......................... 2-30
D Horizontal/video plotter display................. 2-31
Default settings..........................................5-21 HORZ menu .............................................. 2-22
Demonstration mode .................................5-20 Hull unit maintenance ................................. 6-2
Depth marker (horizontal mode) ...............2-12
I
Depth marker (vertical scan mode) .............3-9
Interference rejector
Diagnostics ..................................................6-6
echo sounder mode ................................ 4-9
Display modes
horizontal mode..................................... 2-17
combination .............................................1-8
vertical scan mode ................................ 3-11
dual frequency .........................................1-7
single frequency ......................................1-6 L
Language .................................................. 5-19
E
LF/HF key.................................................... 1-9
Emphasis...................................................5-12
Emphasis mode.........................................5-11
Error messages ...........................................6-5

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M
S
MAIN/SUB key................................. 2-31, 3-17
SECTOR control
Maintenance
horizontal mode ...................................... 2-4
hull unit ....................................................6-2
vertical scan mode .................................. 3-5
preventive ................................................6-1
SHORT-CUT menu ..................................... 5-7
replacement of fuse.................................6-3
Signal level.................................................. 5-3
transducer................................................6-3
Signal level................................................ 2-16
MENU key .................................................1-15
Speed alarm.............................................. 5-13
Menu tree .......................................................1
Stabilizer.................................................... 5-12
Mix display................................................. 1-11
Sweep indicator ........................................ 5-13
MIX key...................................................... 1-11
SYSTEM menu ........................................... 5-9
N SYSTEM SETTING 1 menu ..................... 5-10
Navigation data.......................................... 5-11 SYSTEM SETTING 2 menu ..................... 5-12
North marker.............................................. 5-11
T
P TARGET key ....................................2-19, 2-20
Position display format ..............................5-10 Target lock
POWER switch ............................................1-3 echo mode ............................................ 2-20
PRESET menu ............................................5-5 manual position mode........................... 2-19
Pulselength................................................2-14 selection of mode.................................. 2-19
Test pattern ................................................. 6-8
R TILT control
R/B key echo sounder mode ................................ 4-4
echo sounder mode.................................4-7 vertical scan mode .................................. 3-6
horizontal mode .....................................2-12 Track
vertical scan mode ..................................3-9 deleting.................................................... 5-3
Range on/off ..................................................... 5-10
echo sounder mode.................................4-3 range preset.......................................... 5-17
horizontal mode .......................................2-3 TRAIN control
presetting for echo sounder mode ........5-16 echo sounder mode ................................ 4-4
presetting for horizontal mode...............5-14 horizontal mode ...................................... 2-5
presetting for vertical scan mode ..........5-15 vertical scan mode .................................. 3-4
track range preset .................................5-17 Transducer
vertical scan mode ..................................3-3 automatic retraction .............................. 5-13
RANGE control maintenance ........................................... 6-3
echo sounder mode.................................4-3 Transducer (XDR) switches ........................ 1-3
horizontal mode .......................................2-3 Transmitter output power .......................... 2-13
vertical scan mode ..................................3-3 Troubleshooting .......................................... 6-4
Range marker TVG
echo sounder mode.................................4-7 echo sounder mode ................................ 4-7
Remote controller ........................................1-2 horizontal mode .................................... 2-14
Resolution color vertical scan mode ................................ 3-10
echosounder mode................................4-10 TVG curve ................................................. 5-11
horizontal mode .....................................2-23
vertical scan mode ................................3-12 U
REVERSE key..................................... 2-9, 3-7 Unit of measurement
depth ..................................................... 5-11
water temperature................................. 5-11
V
VERT menu............................................... 3-12
W
White marker............................................... 5-3

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