Lowrance HDS-7m Gen2 Quick Start Guide

Function keys

HDS-5/5m & HDS-7/7m

Quick Start Guide

Arrow

Keypad

PAGES

WPT

FIND

Activates cursor on Chart page. Press up, down, left or right to move the cursor.

ZOUT

ENTER

Press to select the page (screen) to display or to access utilities such as the waypoints list and celestial table. Press and hold to switch control between the panels and combo (split screen) pages.

Press to save a waypoint at your current GPS position. Press and hold to search for waypoints and other points of interest (POI's) or quickly access waypoints, routes and trails..

Zooms out the Radar, Sonar and Chart pages.

Zooms in the Radar, Sonar and Chart pages.

ZIN

Press to return to a previous screen, clear data and

EXIT

close menus. Pressing Exit on the Chart page will quickly switch between displaying the boat symbol and the last cursor position.

Press to save data, change values and accept menu commands; also acts as a short cut key for important functions such as saving a waypoint at the cursor position on the Chart page.

Accesses the features available on each page.

LIGHT

POWER

Press to turn the unit on, adjust the backlight or place the unit in low power (standby) mode. Press and hold to turn the unit off.

Creating a Man Overboard (MOB) position:

Press the ZOUT and ZIN keys at the same time to create a MOB waypoint with a line to your boat position.

To view a page:

Pages screen

1. From any screen press PAGES to access the Pages screen.

Select the desired page display. 2.

To adjust Panel sizes on a Combo page:

1. From the Pages screen, select the desired Combo page and press

the MENU key. Selecting Sonar + Chart will display a Sonar-Chart combo page.

Select 2. Adjust panel sizes. Use the on-screen button to adjust the panel size.

NOTE: Hold down the PAGES key to switch active panels

when viewing a combo page.

To add a Data overlay to a page:

1. To add/edit data overlay, select the

desired page from the pages screen and press MENU.

Select 2. Edit data overlay and press

ENTER.

When the page appears press 3. ENTER to select data or MENU to access the edit overlay menu.

+ 4 hidden pages