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WARNING!
USE THIS UNIT ONLY AS AN AID TO NA VIGA TION. A CAREFUL NA VIGATOR NEVER RELIES ON ONLY ONE METHOD TO OBTAIN POSITION INFORMA TION.
Never use this product while operating a vehicle.
CAUTION
When showing navigation data to a position (wa ypoint), this unit will show
the shortest, most direct path to the waypoint. It provides na vigation data
to the waypoint regardless of obstructions. Therefore, the prudent navigator will not only take advantage of all av ailable navigation tools when tr avelling to a waypoint, but will also visually check to make certain a clear,
safe path to the wa ypoint is alw a ys a v ailab le .
The storage temperature for your unit is from -4 deg rees to +167 degrees
Fahrenheit (-20 to +75 degrees Celsius). Extended storage temper atures
higher or lower than specified will cause the liquid crystal display to fail.
Neither this type of failure nor its consequences are cov ered b y the w arranty . F or more inf ormation, consult the factory customer service department.
All features and specifications subject to change without notice.
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regulations, and special offers at any time. We reserve the right to do so
without notice.
HOW TO OBTAIN SERVICE - INTERNATIONAL ...........................INSIDE BACK COVER
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Congratulations!
You have purchased one of the finest 12-channel GPS receivers Eagle™
has ever made. With its large LCD screen, easy to use menus, and outstanding performance, we think you’ll be happy with your Eagle View™
for many years .
GPS works from satellites that transmit information to the world at very
high frequencies. One disadvantage to this frequency is that it’s “line-ofsight”. In other words, the signals don’t bounce around like your local
radio or television. If you don’t have a clear view of the sky, or if you’re
inside a metal boat dock or garage, the unit probab ly won’t be able to pick
up the signals from the satellites. This is common among all GPS receivers.
Like most GPS receivers, your Eagle View doesn’t have a compass or
any other navigation aid built into it. It relies solely on the signals from the
satellites to determine its position. Speed, direction of tra vel, and distance
are all calculated from position information. Therefore, in order for it to
determine the direction you’re travelling, you must be moving, and the
faster - the better . This is not to say the unit w on’t work at walking speeds
- it will. But the faster you travel, the easier it is for the unit to determine
your direction.
Another factor that influences the GPS’ position and navigation capabilities is called selective av ailability or S/A. This is small errors purposefully
injected into the transmitted signal from the satellites. The government
does this to degrade the system’ s accuracy to civilian and f oreign users.
Even with S/A, GPS is the most accurate navigation system e ver in vented
on such a large scale. The Government’s accuracy specification is 100
meters horizontally and 150 meters vertically 95% of the time. In other
words, the position shown on your Eagle View could be up to 100 meters
in any direction from your actual position, and the altitude could be plus or
minus 150 meters from what’ s shown on the screen, 95% of the time .
There are two ways around the S/A problem. One is to have the government simply turn it off. In fact, there is growing pressure on them to do
that, but it’s not likely to happen anytime soon. The other method is to
purchase a DGPS receiver and connect it to your Eagle View. A DGPS
receiver (commonly called a beacon receiver), picks up correction signals broadcast from ground stations. The Eagle View tak es these corrections and applies them to the position and altitude screens, giving you
much better accuracy.
Even with S/A on, and without a DGPS receiver, your Eagle View gives
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you outstanding position and navigation information. Most people are
amazed when they actually use a GPS receiv er and see what it does.
Please sit down with the unit and this manual and f amiliarize yourself with
them before using the Eagle View in the “real w orld”. A simulator is b uilt in,
which lets you practice.
INSTALLATION
INSTALLATION - Bracket
You can install the Eagle View on the top of a dash or from an overhead
with the supplied bracket. It can also be installed in the dash with an
optional IDA-3 mounting kit. A swivel bracket is included that converts the
Eagle View's gimbal bracket to a swivel mount. You can mount the Eagle
View in any convenient location, provided there is clearance when it’s tilted
for the best viewing angle.
Bracket Installation - No Swivel
Holes in the bracket’s base allow wood screw or through bolt mounting. It
may be necessary to place a piece of plywood on the back side of thin
panels to reinforce the panel. Make certain there is enough room behind
the unit to attach the power and antenna cables.
Drill a hole in the dash for the power and antenna cables. The best location
for this hole is immediately under the gimbal bracket. This way, the bracket
covers the hole. The smallest hole the power and antenna cable connector
can pass through is 3/4". Route the cables to the unit by passing them
through the hole from under the dash. Slide the bracket over the hole, then
route the cables out the slot in the back of the bracket. Finally, fasten the
bracket to the dash.
Bracket Installation - With Swivel
1. Place the swivel bracket on the dash or console in the desired mounting
location. Make certain there is enough room for the unit to rotate. Using
the swivel bracket’s base as a template, mark the four mounting holes
for drilling. Remove the bracket and drill the holes in the mounting
surface for the #10 mounting screws.
2. Install the large locknut into the bottom of the swivel bracket. Place the
swivel bracket onto the mounting surface and attach it using the four
supplied #10 screws.
3. Pass the large screw through the gimbal bracket and the swivel bracket.
Thread it into the large locknut and tighten it. Don't tighten it too tight,
or the gimbal bracket won't swivel.
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Attach the Eagle View to the gimbal bracket using the supplied gimbal
knobs and washers as shown below.
Eagle View
Gimbal Bracket
Washer
Gimbal Knob
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POWER
The Eagle Vie w will operate from a 12-volt DC system. (9 to 15 volts DC.)
You can connect the power cable to an accessory buss under the dash,
however, to keep electrical noise interference to a minimum, we recommend you wire the power cable directly to the battery through the supplied 2-amp fuse.
CAUTION!
Do not connect this product to a power source without using a fuse!
Failure to use the fuse can cause damage to y our unit and will void the
warranty.
Follow the wiring diagram below. If the wires on the power cable are not
long enough to reach the battery , use 18 gauge wire to lengthen the power
cable.
The power cable’s green wire is used to receive data from a DGPS receiver . The white wire is used to transmit data to a DGPS receiv er or other
electronic equipment. If y ou are not connecting the Eagle Vie w to another
device, tape the ends of these wires and secure them where the y will not
short to one another. See the NMEA/DGPS section in this manual for
more information.
(Note: If y our power cab le has six wires, tape and secure the e xtra wires ,
also. The y are not used on this product.)
TO
EAGLE VIEW
EAGLE VIEW
RECEIVE
(NMEA)
EAGLE VIEW
TRANSMIT
(NMEA)
WHITE
12-VOL T
BA TTER Y
GREEN
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BLACK
RED
2-AMP
FUSE
ANTENNA
The Eagle View’s antenna can be mounted on an y flat surf ace , provided
you hav e access behind the surface f or the mounting screws. A magnet is
also supplied that can be epoxied to the bottom of the antenna, allowing it
to be used on off-road vehicles. A pole mount adapter lets y ou mount the
antenna on a pole or swivel mount.
ANTENNA INSTALLATION
Surface Mount
The Eagle Vie w’ s antenna can be easily installed on an y flat surf ace that
is at least 90 mm (3 1/2”) wide. Make certain that a clear view of the sky is
available at the selected location. Since the GPS signals travel “line-ofsight”, nearly anything blocking the antenna can potentially obstruct the
unit from finding a satellite.
Once you’ve determined the mounting location, use the template on page
51 in this manual to drill the holes for the screws. The screws, supplied
with the Eagle Vie w, are 4mm x 30mm. (about 1 1/8” long). Drill 4.75 mm
(3/16”) holes for the mounting screws . If you route the cable through the
mounting surface, you’ll need to drill a 25 mm (1”) hole for the cable.
There is a notch in the antenna housing that allows the cable to pass
through to the outside, instead of routing it through the mounting surface.
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After drilling the holes, pass the o-ring over the antenna cable and press
it into the groove on the bottom of the antenna housing. Now attach the
antenna to the mounting surface, using 4mm screws and the supplied
lock washers. Route the cab le to the Eagle Vie w and the antenna installation is finished.
Magnet Mount
A magnet lets you temporarily mount the antenna on any ferrous metal
surface. (such as a car) To use the magnet, simply epoxy it to the bottom
of the antenna, using the epoxy supplied with your Eagle View. Carefully
follow the instructions on the epoxy package and apply it to the magnet.
Then carefully press the magnet to the bottom of the antenna housing.
After the epoxy cures (in about 30 minutes), the antenna is ready f or use.
MAGNET
Pole Mount
The Eagle View’s antenna attaches to the
pole mount adapter with the supplied 4 mm
screws. You can route the antenna cable
through the slot in the side of the antenna,
or pass it down through the pole mount
adapter. A slot next to the threads in the
pole mount adapter places the cable next
to the pole where it can be easily routed
down the pole to the Eagle View. The
threads on the pole mount adapter accept
a standard marine antenna mount.
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POLE MOUNT
KEYBOARD
The keyboard has twelve keys. The arrow keys are tied to most of the
features, letting you easily mo ve the plotter’ s cursor , navigate through the
menus, make selections from menus , and other tasks.
Z-IN
Z-OUT
MODE
MENU
WPT
EXIT
ENT
PWR
The WPT k ey lets y ou create, sav e, and recall wa ypoints and routes. The
MODE key switches the unit betw een the three major displays: windows,
navigation, and plotter . To select different features, or to modify functions ,
press the MENU key. The Z-IN and Z-OUT keys zoom-in and zoom-out
your view on the plotter screen. The ENT and EXIT k e ys let y ou enter or
erase selections. The PWR key turns the Eagle View on and off.
Note: To prevent an accidental po w er shutdown, y ou must hold the PWR
key down for a few seconds in order to turn the unit off.
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OPERATION
Turning Po wer On
To turn the Eagle Vie w on, simply press
the PWR key . A screen similar to the one
at right appears. Read the message on
the screen, then press the EXIT key to
erase it. The Eagle View is now ready f or
use.
MENUS
Most of the Eagle Vie w’s adjustments and f eatures are found on “menus”.
Pressing the MENU key lets you view the menus. Different menus items
are added to the basic list, depending
on which mode (plotter, navigation, or
windows) the unit is in. This gives you
the features that are specific to the mode
you are in, but also has items that are
used on all modes.
Using the arrow keys moves the black
box to highlight different menus on the
list. Pressing the right arro w ke y selects
the menu.
To erase a menu, press the EXIT key.
Finding Y our Position
Cold Start
When the Eagle View is turned on for the very first time, it doesn’t know
where it is, nor what the local time or date is. If you tell it your position,
time, and date, the unit will take much less time to loc k-on to the satellites
and give you a fix or position.
However, if you don’t want to push buttons at this time, that’s fine. The
Eagle Vie w will lock onto the satellites and give y ou a position without any
input from you. This is called a “cold-start”. It simply means that the unit is
searching without help for the satellites that are in orbit. A cold-start can
take up to 2 minutes to acquire enough satellite data to determine your
position, although it typically takes less time than that.
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Once the Eagle View locks on to the satellites and finds your position, it
stores the satellite data in its memory. The next time you use the unit, it
should take much less time to lock on.
To use your Eagle View, first make certain you have a clear view of the
sky, free from any obstructions such as trees, carport, or a covered boat
dock.
Press the PWR key. Read the message
on the screen, then press the EXIT key
to erase the message. A screen similar
to the one at right appears.
This is windows group “A”. Your track
(TRK), or direction of travel is shown in
the upper right corner of this screen.
Bearing to a waypoint (BRG), Course
over ground (CRS), and cross track error (XTK) are all shown on this screen. You must recall a waypoint to use
the bearing, course, and cross track error windows. As you wait for the
Eagle View to find your position, you’ll see numbers flashing on the display. Anytime you see flashing numbers, it means the Eagle View does
not have a position! Do not rely on any data that is flashing! When the
numbers stop flashing, the unit has locked on to the satellites and the
position is good.
That’s all y ou have to do to find y our position. All time displays may not be
correct when the cold start method is used. See the initialization section
for details on changing the time.
Finding Y our Position
Initialization
A cold-start as described above can take up to 15 minutes to find your
position. A faster method is to initialize
the Eagle Vie w manually. To do this, first
press the PWR key. Ne xt, read the messages on the screen and press the EXIT
key to erase them. Now press the MENU
key .
Press the up or down arrow keys until
the “GPS SETUP” menu is highlighted
as shown at right. Now press the right
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arrow ke y . The screen sho wn at right appears.
Using the down arrow key, highlight the
“Initialize GPS Receiver” menu, then
press the right arrow key. The screen
shown below appears.
This is the GPS initialization screen. The
position, altitude, time, and date the
Eagle View is currently using to find the
satellites is shown at the bottom of this
screen. Changing these values to your
local position and time will speed the position lock.
To change the position, press the right
arrow key while the “EDIT LA T/LON” box
is highlighted. The screen shown at right
appears.
If your latitude is south, press the up or
down arrow ke y to change it. If it is north,
press the right arrow key to move the
change box to the first number in the latitude. Now press the up arro w key
to increase the number or the down arrow key to decrease it. Once the
first number in the latitude is set, press
the right arrow key once to move to the
next number in the latitude.
Keep pressing the arrow keys until the
latitude and longitude are set to your local position. (Note: This position does not
have to be very accurate. If you can get
it within one degree of your actual position, that will be fine.) When it’ s set, press
the ENT key. The Eagle View accepts
your entry and returns to the GPS setup menu.
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Now change the local time and date if
they’re incorrect on this screen. (Don’t
worry about altitude.) When everything
is acceptable, press the EXIT ke y repeatedly to return to a mode screen. The
Eagle Vie w will instantly use the data you
entered to find the satellites in the sky.
(The unit knows which satellites will be
available at the position, date, and time
you entered. Therefore, it will only look
for those satellites, making the search time much shorter than a cold start
which looks for all of the satellites until it finds three.)
Once the Eagle Vie w finds and loc ks on to three satellites , it stops flashing the numbers on the display. (Note: Altitude will still flash until the unit
locks on to the fourth satellite. It takes four satellites to determine altitude.)
IMPORTANT!
If the data shown in digital numbers on any screen is flashing, it
means that data is invalid. DO NOT RELY ON ANY NUMBERS THA T
ARE FLASHING! Usually, this happens when the Eagle View has
lost its lock on the satellites. The data that is flashing was the last
known when the unit lost its navigational capability.
DO NOT NAVIGATE WITH THIS UNIT UNTIL THE DATA STOPS
FLASHING!
POSITION/NA VIGA TION DISPLAYS
The Eagle Vie w has navigation, plotter , and windows group modes. These
screens were designed to show data that
is used most often.
The three default displays are sho wn on
the next page. To change displays, simply press the MODE key. A screen similar to the one at right appears. Now press
the up or down arrow keys to change
modes. (The windows display is shown
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NAV-1PLOT-1
GROUP A
as "GRP" (groups). For example, Group A is the first windows group on
the MODE menu.) Press the right arrow ke y to see more screens on each
mode. When the desired screen appears , press the EXIT key to clear the
menu.
Note: F or a list of abbre viations used on the displays, see the bac k of this
manual.
Navigation Screens
There are two navigation screens. Nav screen number one sho ws a graphical view of your trip , the other screen shows all navigation details in large
digital numbers. You can customize the navigation screens to show diff erent data than the ones chosen by Eagle. See the “Customize Screen”
section for more details.
Nav Screen #1
This screen is dominated by a compass rose (See the screen at the top of
the next page.) Your position is in the center of the circle, designated by
an arrow that always points straight up. Your track (direction of travel) is
indicated by an arrow pointing down tow ard the compass rose at the top
center of the screen. Your track in digital numbers is also shown to the
right of the arrow. On the screen at the top of the next page, the track is
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348°. The line extending behind the arrow in the center shows your track history , or path y ou’ve tr a v elled.
Your speed over ground or Ground
Speed (GS) shows in the digital box to
the right of the circle.
The screen looks like this when you’re
not navigating to a waypoint. (See page
35 for information on waypoint navigation.) If you navigate to a waypoint, the
screen looks like the one below.
The bearing to the destination waypoint
is shown in the upper left corner of the
screen. Bearing is also shown by the
large arrow pointing up to the compass.
The lines on either side of the present
position arrow show the cross track error range. In other words, (using the
screen above as an example) if the arrow crosses the line on either side, you
are .10 miles to the left or right of the
desired course.
A circle depicting your destination appears on the screen as you approach the
waypoint.
The digital boxes on the screen’s r ight
side show (from top to bottom) your distance to go to the destination (DIS), ground speed (GS), estimated time
en route (ETE), and course (CRS).
Course (CRS) is the bearing from your starting location to your destination. (Remember, course has nothing to do with your present position,
except for y our starting location.) It’s shown as a dotted line on the NA V 1
display. This is shown as a reminder so that if you de viate from your original course, you can easily return to it. (A “course” is a proposed path over
the ground. A “track” is your actual path over ground.)
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Nav Screen #2
The navigation screen shows navigation
information in large digital numbers. To
view this screen, press the MODE key,
then press the up arrow key until the
black box surrounds the “NAV 1” label.
Now press the right arrow key. A screen
similar to the one at right appears. Press
the EXIT key to erase the mode menu.
This screen is composed of eight digital display bo xes, showing your track
(TRK), and ground speed (GS). The other boxes show navigation data
when a waypoint is recalled, including bearing to the waypoint (BRG),
course (CRS), Altitude (ALT), distance to waypoint (DIS), velocity made
good (VMG), and cross track error (XTK).
Plotter
The plotter lets you see your course and track from a “birds-eye” view. If
you’ve recalled a wa ypoint, the plotter show your staring location, present
position, and destination. Howe ver , y ou don’t ha ve to recall a w aypoint to
use the plotter.
To use the plotter, simply press the
MODE key, then press the up or down
arrow keys until the “Plot” label is
higlighted. Press the EXIT key to erase
the mode menu. A screen similar to the
one at right appears. This is plot-1. The
diamond flashing in the center of the
screen is your present position. The solid
line extending from the diamond is your
track, or path you’ve travelled. The
plotter’s range is shown in the lower left corner of the screen. In this example, the plotter’ s range is two miles from the left edge of the screen to
the right.
There are two different plotter screens
available. Map screen number 1 shows
by default. Your current position displays
at the center of the screen by a cross
surrounded by a flashing diamond.
To view the other plotter screen, press
the MODE key. Press the up or down ar-
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row key to move the black box to the "PLOT" label. Now press the right
arrow or left arrow key to select plot 2. This screen (as shown at the
bottom of the previous page) has navigation data displayed on the right
side of the screen in digital numbers. This data is active whene v er you’v e
recalled a waypoint. Press the EXIT key to erase the mode menu.
This screen shows ground speed (GS), track (TRK), course (CRS), and
cross track error (XTK).
Use the Z-IN and Z-OUT keys to enlarge or reduce the plotter area. This
changes the plotter’s range . The available ranges are: 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, 0.3,
Pressing an arrow key while the plotter
is on shows two dotted lines that intersect at your present position. These dotted lines are called a “cursor” and have a
variety of uses.
You can move the cursor around the display by pressing the arrow keys in the
direction you want it to move. This lets
you view different areas of the plotter,
away from your present position. When
it’s turned on, the zoom-in and zoom-out keys work from the cursor’s
position - not the present position, so you can zoom in on any detail,
anywhere while navigating. The latitude/longitude of the cursor shows in
the box at the top of the plot-1 screen whenever the cursor is activated.
The cursor is also used to place and erase icons and waypoints .
Press the EXIT key to erase the cursor.
PLOTTER OPTIONS
The Eagle View lets you customize the
plotter using the “plotter options” menu.
To use this menu, first press the MENU
key, then use the up or down arrow keys
to highlight the “Plotter Opts” label. Finally, press the right arrow key. The
screen shown at right appears.
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