General page

The General page in the Display Options dialog box controls the location of the menu. You can select which navigational information to be shown on the top bar. You can also choose to see Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) at the bottom of the presentation.

How to open

This page is located in the Display Options dialog box. The Display Options dialog box is located on the Display menu.

Description

The General page offers a range of "on/off switches". You use them to enable or disable the relevant functions.

Note

The information shown on the top bar must not be used for vessel navigation.

Details

Use icons on the main menu

Select this function to use icons instead of text on the Main menu.

Menu on the Right Side

Select this option to place the menu system on the right side of the display presentation.

Top Bar

The top bar is located at the top of the display presentation and stretches from the far left to the far right. By means of these check boxes, you can select which elements to be shown at the top of the presentation.

For each option, the text in brackets is the identification used on the top bar. The text used to identify the depth option reflects the information you added as Custom Name when you installed the transducer on the Transducer Installation page in the Installation dialog box.

Navigation

Select this check box to see the vessel’s current geographical position on the top bar. The position information must be provided by an external navigation system connected to the EK80 system.

Heading

Select this check box to see the vessel's current heading on the top bar. The heading information must be provided by an external positioning system, or by a heading sensor or gyro compass connected to the EK80 system.

Speed

Select this check box to see the vessel's current speed on the top bar. The information must be provided by an external speed log or a navigation system connected to the EK80 system.

Temperature

Select this check box to see the current temperature on the top bar. The information must be provided by an external temperature sensor connected to the EK80 system.

Salinity

Select this check box to see the water salinity on the top bar. The information about the salinity must be provided by an external sensor connected to the EK80 system.

Distance

Select this check box to see the vessel's sailed distance on the top bar. The distance information must be provided by an external navigation system connected to the EK80 system.

Roll

Select this check box to see the vessel's current roll movements on the top bar. The information must be provided by an external motion sensor (motion reference unit) connected to the EK80 system.

Pitch

Select this check box to see the vessel's current pitch movements on the top bar. The information must be provided by an external motion sensor (motion reference unit) connected to the EK80 system.

Heave

Select this check box to see the vessel's current heave movements on the top bar. The information must be provided by an external motion sensor (motion reference unit) connected to the EK80 system.

Depth

Select this check box to see the current water depth on the top bar. The information is taken from the chosen transducer. The text used to identify the depth option reflects the information you added as Custom Name when you installed the transducer on the Transducer Installation page in the Installation dialog box.

Bottom Bar

Check the box to use Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time is shown on the bottom bar at the bottom of the display presentation. When disabled, the EK80 system uses local time.

Note

To enable UTC time, your EK80 system must be set up to accept the NMEA ZDA datagram. The NMEA ZDA datagram contains the universal time code (UTC), day, month, year and local time zone.

Coordinated Universal Time (French: Temps Universel Coordonné, UTC) is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is one of several closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For most purposes, UTC is used interchangeably with GMT, but GMT is no longer precisely defined by the scientific community. [...]

The current version of UTC is defined by International Telecommunications Union Recommendation (ITU-R TF.460-6), Standard-frequency and time-signal emissions and is based on International Atomic Time (TAI) with leap seconds added at irregular intervals to compensate for the slowing of Earth's rotation. Leap seconds keep UTC within 0.9 seconds of universal time, UT1.

Wikipedia, Copied June 2014