Simrad NSO-II Operator's Manual

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Preface

As Navico is continuously improving this product, we retain the right to make changes to the product at any time which may not be reected in this version of the manual. Please contact your nearest distributor if you require any further assistance.

It is the owner’s sole responsibility to install and use the instrument and transducers in a manner that will not cause accidents, personal injury or property damage. The user of this product is solely responsible for observing safe boating practices.

NAVICO HOLDING AS AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES, BRANCHES AND AFFILIATES DISCLAIM ALL LIABILITY FOR ANY USE OF THIS PRODUCT IN A WAY THAT MAY CAUSE ACCIDENTS, DAMAGE OR THAT MAY VIOLATE THE LAW.

Governing Language: This statement, any instruction manuals, user guides and other information relating to the product (Documentation) may be translated to, or has been translated from, another language (Translation). In the event of any conict between any Translation of the Documentation, the English language version of the Documentation will be the ocial version of the Documentation.

This manual represents the product as at the time of printing. Navico Holding AS and its subsidiaries, branches and aliates reserve the right to make changes to specications without notice.

Warranty

The warranty card is supplied as a separate document.

In case of any queries, refer to the brand website of your display or system:

www.simrad-yachting.com

Declarations and conformance

This equipment is intended for use in international waters as well as coastal sea areas administered by countries of the E.U. and E.E.A. For more information refer to the separate NSO-II Installation manual.

About this manual

This manual is a reference guide for operating the Simrad NSO-II systems. It assumes that all equipment is installed and congured, and that the system is ready to use.

The manual assumes that the user has basic knowledge of navigation, nautical terminology and practices.

The manual does not cover basic background information about how equipment such as radars, echo sounders and AIS work. Such information is available from our website: www.simrad-yachting.com/en/Support/Library.

Important text that requires special attention from the reader is emphasized as follows:

¼ Note: Used to draw the reader’s attention to a comment or some important information.

Warning: Used when it is necessary to warn personnel that they should proceed

carefully to prevent risk of injury and/or damage to equipment/personnel.

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The software

This manual is written for Simrad NSO-II Release to Market 1 (RTM1). Please check website for details on release version.

¼ Note: The About dialog above is an example only and may not match the software in-

stalled on your unit!

The manual will be continuously updated to match new software releases. The latest available manual version can be downloaded from www.simrad-yachting.com

pdf viewer

A pdf viewer provides the opportunity to read the manuals and other pdf les on the NSO-II screen. NSO-II manuals can be downloaded from www.simrad-yachting.com to an SD card or USB stick and then copied to the unit’s internal memory.

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To maneuver in the pdf, use softkeys and multi-touch gestures as shown below:

Search, Page Up/

Down

Scroll pages

Panning on page

Zoom in

Zoom out

Exit the pdf viewer

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Tap the relevant softkeys

Touch screen and smoothly move one nger up/down or left/right

Touch screen and smoothly move one nger in any direction

Touch screen and smoothly drag two ngers away from each other

Touch screen and smoothly drag two ngers together

Tap the X in the upper right corner

Contents

9 Introduction

9 OP40 Remote Control of NSO-II 10 Touch terminology and icons 11 NSO-II screen layout

14 Basic operation

14 Turn power on/o 14 Using the touchscreen 15 Pages and panels 15 Menus 16 Dialog boxes 16 Positioning a Man Over Board mark

17 Charts

17 Chart panel 17 Chart scale 17 Panning the chart 17 Vessel symbol 18 Using the cursor on the chart panel 19 Positioning the chart on the panel 19 Chart settings panel 20 Chart overlay 20 Selecting chart type 21 Insight and CMAP chart options 22 Navionics chart options

26 Waypoints, routes & tracks

26 Waypoints 27 Routes 27 Tracks 28 Waypoints, route and tracks panels

29 Navigating with the NSO-II

29 Goto menu 29 Navigating on the chart 30 Navigating with the autopilot 30 Navigation settings panel 31 Navigation panels

33 Autopilot

33 Safe operation with the autopilot 33 Activating the autopilot 34 Autopilot panel 34 Selecting autopilot modes 34 Autopilot mode overview 36 Controlling steering performance in automatic modes 36 Using the autopilot in standby mode 36 Power steering (NFU) 36 Follow-up steering (FU) 36 AUTO mode (auto compass) 40 NoDrift mode 40 Navigating with the NSO-II 41 Sailing with the autopilot

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43 Wind steering and navigation 43 Using the NSO-II in an AP24/AP28 system 43 Using the autopilot in an EVC system 44 Autopilot settings panel

47 Radar

47 Radar panel 47 Radar operational modes 47 Using the cursor on the radar panel 48 Optimizing the radar image 48 Positioning the radar center 49 Measuring range and bearing to a target 50 Setting a guard zone around your vessel 50 Radar options 52 MARPA targets 53 Radar overlay 54 Radar settings panel

55 Echosounder

55 Setting up the echosounder panel 56 Zooming 57 Adjusting color and gain settings 57 Using the cursor on the echosounder panel 58 Placing a mark on an echosounder image 58 Measuring distance 58 Pausing the echosounder 58 Recording echosounder data 59 Echo options 60 StructureScan™ overlay 60 Echosounder settings panel

62 StructureScan™

62 Setting up the StructureScan™ image 63 Zooming 64 Adjusting the color settings 64 Using the cursor on the StructureScan™ panel 64 Placing a mark on a StructureScan™ image 65 Measuring distance 65 Pausing StructureScan™ 65 Recording StructureScan™ data 65 Structure options

66 StructureMap

66 Activating Structure overlay 67 StructureMap sources 67 StructureMap tips 68 Recording StructureScan data 68 Using StructureMap with mapping cards 69 Structure options

70 Instrument panels

70 Dashboards 70 Customizing the Instrument panel

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71 AIS - Automatic Identication System

71 Target symbols 71 Viewing information about AIS targets 72 Vessel alarms 72 Vessel settings panel 73 AIS SART

75 Audio

75 Enabling audio 75 Audio media bar 75 Setting up the SonicHub speakers 76 Operating the audio source 77 Audio playback 77 Using the FM/AM radio 78 Using the Sirius radio 79 FUSION-Link Support

80 Weather

80 GRIB weather 82 SiriusXM™ weather (North America only) 84 Weather alarms

85 Video

85 Video panel 85 Setting up the video panel 86 FLIR camera control

88 BEP CZone

88 BEP CZone panel 88 CZone modes 89 CZone system overview options 89 CZone info panel 89 CZone AC Main Control Interface (AMCI) and AC Output Interface (ACOI) support

90 Alarm system

90 Type of messages 90 Acknowledging a message 91 Alarms dialog

92 Tools page

92 Vessels 92 Alarms 92 Satellites 93 Find 93 Waypoints/routes/tracks 93 Trip L og 93 Sun/moon 93 Tides

95 GoFreeTM wireless

98 Operating the NSO-II with a wireless device

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100 Customizing your system

100 Page overview 100 Create favorite pages 101 Setting the appearance of the instrument bar 101 Changing system settings

103 Simulator

103 Simulator mode 103 Demo mode 103 Selecting simulator source les 103 Advanced simulator settings

104 Maintenance

104 Preventive maintenance 104 Simple maintenance procedures 104 Software upgrades 104 Trouble shooting 105 Backing up your system data

106 Menu and dialog overview

106 Panel menus 106 Goto menu 107 Settings dialogs

109 Index

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Introduction

OP40 Remote Control of NSO-II

Connecting an OP40 Remote Controller to NSO-II will enable a combination of key operation and multi-touch gestures to operate the functions of the NSO-II. For details on connection and setup, refer to separate OP40 manual.

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DISPLAY

ABC DEF

JKL

TUV

PWR

WXYZ

MNO

PLOT GO TO

MARK

ECHO NAV

INFO PAGES

VESSEL

RADARCHART

STBY

AUTO

MOB

GHI

PQRS

OUT

MENU WIN

1112131415

Key Description

MOB (Man Overboard). A long press will position a Man Over Board (MOB)

waypoint at the vessel’s current position

2 Display under command LEDs. Indicates which display the OP40 is controlling.

DISPLAY: A short press changes which display the OP40 is controlling. A long

press (5 sec.) turns on all NSO/NSO-II units on the network, and enters OP40 conguration and system startup

PLOT/MARK key. A short press activates the Plot menu, a long press positions a

waypoint at the vessel position

5 Zoom IN zoom OUT buttons for radar, echosounder and chart pages

GOTO/VESSEL key. A short press activates the Goto menu, a long press centers

the chart to vessel position

P key activates/conrms current selection

8 Rotary knob. The function of the knob is depending on active context

9 X key cancels changes and returns to previous menu level

Cursor keypad. Used to move the cursor on the display, and to maneuver in the

menu system

WIN key. Used on multiple panels pages. A short press toggles between the

panels, a long press expands active panel to a full page panel and back again

MENU key. Used to display the context menu for the active panel/overlay, and for

selecting options in edit mode. 2 x MENU for accessing system settings menu

Direct Access Keys (DAK). Provide direct access to a page. Repeated presses of

each DAK cycles through several dierent pages that relate to the DAK

PWR key. Used to turn the NSO-II system on/o and to display dialog for light

adjustment, night mode and standby mode

15 STBY AUTO: Autopilot Auto steer/Stand-By

16 Alphanumeric keypad used for entering numbers and text in dialog boxes

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Touch terminology and icons

Multitouch gestures are predened motions used to interact with multitouch devices. The gesture-function-pairs which applies to the NSO-II are listed below.

Ter m Icon

Tap

Double tap

Long press

Scroll

Flick

Description

Tap screen once e.g. on chart item to show basic

information on item or tap a checkbox to set the option on/o.

Tap screen twice e.g. double-tab the MENU panel

button to show the Settings dialog

Tap and hold your nger on the screen for xx seconds to activate the cursor assist option

Touch screen and smoothly move one nger up/down or left/right e.g. scroll through a list of available options without activating any option

Same motion as Scroll, only rapidly ick/swipe one nger on the screen to quickly scroll through e.g. the waypoint list. Tap the screen to stop the scrolling.  the listing keeps scrolling after the nger has left the screen

Pan

Pinch

Spread

Touch screen and smoothly move one nger in any direction to pan the chart

Touch screen and smoothly drag two ngers together to zoom out on the chart

Touch screen and smoothly drag two ngers away from each other to zoom in on the chart

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NSO-II screen layout

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Video

S ee “Customizing your system” on page 100 for further information

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1 Instrument bar

Navigation and sensor info can be viewed in a user congurable instrument bar at the top of your screen. The button in the top left corner will call up the Pages overview panel (Home).

2 Panel button

You can tap the text on this area to end an ongoing operation, e.g. to remove the cursor from the screen, to end route editing and to stop measuring distance.

3 Dialogs

Dialogs are used for user input or for presenting information to the user.

A dialog may be presented in full-screen or as a popup dialog in the centre of the screen. Depending on type of information or entry, dierent steps are applied to conrm, cancel and close the dialog.

A dialog can always be closed by tapping the

4 Menus

Dierent menus are available to select options and to congure your system. A menu is displayed by tapping the MENU panel button, or by tapping and holding on the touchscreen.

5 Application panels

Each application connected to the system is presented in panels, and you can have several panels presented on the screen at the same time, all depending of what combination is most suitable at the moment e.g.

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in the upper right corner.

1-panel page 2-panels page 3-panels page 4-panels page

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The system includes the following page groups, which each have a pre-congured combination of panels:

Icon Description Main page

Instruments with congurable live data from system internal, and external sources

Instruments

such as engines

Echosounder Echosounder

Live video Video

Navigation information Steering

Insight, CMAP MAX-N or Navionics charts, depending on region, plus supporting NV

Chart

digital charts as well

Radar Radar

S ee “Customizing your system” on page 100 for further information

See ““Alarm system” on page 90 for further information

The main page in each group is a full size panel. All pre-congured pages, except the main page for the group, can be modied by the user.

In addition to these panels the following applications can be connected and displayed in other panels:

Panel Description

AIS AIS information as overlay on chart and radar panels

Weather Sirius (North America only) weather graphics and data as overlay on chart

panel

Audio Satellite radio (North America only) and SonicHub functions as a panel

along the bottom of a page

6 MENU panel button

Tapping this panel button will display the menu for the active panel.

7 Alarm message

The system will continuously check for dangerous situations and system faults while the system is running. When an alarm situation occurs, an Alarm dialog will pop up.

If you have enabled the siren, an audible alarm will be activated when an alarm situation occurs.

8 Control pages

The Control pages give access to page selection, tools and settings. The Pages overview panel (Home) is displayed by tapping the PAGES button to the left

of the instrument bar.

You can also switch between the control panels by dragging your nger horizontally on the screen.

All control panels and sub-panels are always full screen, and they will open on top of your previous page. When you close one of these panels the display will return to last active page.

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Video

Pages overview (Home page) Tools Settings

Pages overview

The pages overview panel is accessed from any operational mode by tapping the PAGES button.

The panel includes 6 page group icons together with shortcuts to the autopilot panel, to a combined chart/echo panel, and to the StructureScan panel.

If a CZone system is connected, this function is accessed from the Home page.

¼ Note: To see an autopilot panel an AC12/42 or SG05 autopilot computer must be con-

nected to the system.

Tools

The tools panel include options that are not specic to any panel e.g. status regarding vessels, alarms, satellites, sun/moon and tides. Also included are waypoints, routes and tracks library, trip log, sun/moon status, nd function and les.

Settings

The Settings panel gives access to system and vessel setup, application settings, and to the simulator.

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Advanced power control

The NSO-II can be wired and congured to control the power of displays and compatible devices. See the NSO-II Installation manual for more information.

Basic operation

Turn power on/o

Use the power switch on the front of the NSO Processor or press the PWR key on the OP40 Remote Control to turn the NSO-II system on/o.

Power switch

More features via the power key

• Press the OP40 PWR

key or tap the power button on the Pages panel

Display dialog for brightness, night mode, standby mode and radar standby/transmit

• Drag to adjust

slider value / repeat pressing the OP40 PWR key

¼ Note: If the power key is released before shut-down is completed, the power o is can-

celled.

A night mode which optimizes the color palette for low light conditions, is included.

¼ Note: Details on the chart may be less visible when the Night mode is selected!

When in Standby mode, the backlight is turned o to save power. You return from Standby mode to normal operation by pressing the OP40 PWR key. If the radar is transmitting you can set it to standby mode from within the Light dialog.

To change the brightness level / toggle preset brightness levels

Using the touchscreen

Basic touchscreen operation on the dierent panels is shown in the table below.

The panel sections later in this manual have more information about panel specic touchscreen operation.

Operation

Tap

Press and

hold

Drag

Menu/ Dialogs

Select/

toggle item

Adjust

slider value

Scroll dialog

Panels:

Chart Echo Radar

Place cursor

Display menu for active panel

Pan chart

(any direction)

Pan echo history

(horizontal

movement)

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¼ Note: When pressing the screen and holding your nger on the same spot, a circle will

spin around the point. Don’t let go till action circle is completed or until the action is conrmed by a second beep.

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Pages and panels

Select pages

You access a page group and then select the page to display from the PAGES panel.

Select active panel

In a split screen you have multiple panels, but only one panel can be active at a time. You will only be able to access the context menu of the active panel. The active panel is outlined with a red border.

You can switch between active panels by tapping the required panel or pressing the OP40

WIN key.

Menus

Menus are used to operate the system and to adjust settings.

To call up a menu:

• Press the panel button or OP40 MENU key

• Press and hold on active panel

• You select a menu item and toggle on/o menu check boxes by tapping selected item.

• You adjust slide bar values by tapping the item and then dragging your nger on the

slide bar. The value can also be adjusted by turning the OP40 rotary knob.

• Drop-down listings are selected by tapping the item and then the selected value.

Check box Slide bar Drop-down listing

From the OP40 Remote Controller you can also operate a menu by using the rotary knob to select menu item, and then press the knob to conrm your selection.

By pressing the X key the menu will return to previous menu level, and then exit. You can also close a menu by tapping the screen outside the menu area.

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Dialog boxes

You select entry elds and keys in a dialog box by tapping the screen or by using the OP40 rotary knob. You can only enter information when a eld is selected and highlighted.

Some dialog listings might extend beyond the screen area. These dialogs will include a scroll indicator, and you scroll by dragging the list or turning the OP40 rotary knob.

Numeric and alphanumeric keyboard will automatically be displayed when required for entering user information in dialogs. A virtual keyboard is operated by tapping the virtual keys.

A dialog is closed by tapping the corner.

in the upper right

Placing the cursor

The cursor is by default not shown on any panel.

You tap the screen to place the cursor on a Chart, Radar or Echosounder panel. The cursor information window will show position coordinates at the cursor position, and range and bearing to the vessel.

On an Echosounder panel, the cursor information window will include the depth at cursor position.

Further use of the cursor is described in the Chart, Radar and Echosounder sections. To remove the cursor and cursor window from the panel, press the X key or tap the Clear

cursor panel button.

Positioning a Man Over Board mark

If an emergency man over board situation should occur, you can position a MOB mark at the vessel’s current position by pressing the OP40 MOB key for about 5 seconds.

When you activate the MOB function the following actions are automatically performed:

• a MOB mark is positioned at the vessel’s position

• the display switches to a zoomed chart panel, centered on vessel’s position

• the NSO-II creates an active route to the MOB mark

2 s

5 s

Positioning multiple Man Over Board marks

The NSO-II allows for positioning multiple Man Over Board marks. Multiple MOB marks are positioned by repeatingly pressing the OP40 MOB key. The vessel

will continue to navigate towards the initial MOB mark until the waypoint is reached, or until you stop the navigation. Navigation to subsequent MOB marks will need to be done manually.

Cancel navigation

The NSO-II will continue navigating towards the MOB point until the waypoint is reached or until navigation is cancelled.

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Delete a MOB mark

A MOB mark is deleted by selecting the MOB mark and then activating the menu.

It can also be deleted as described in “Waypoints, routes & tracks” on page 26.

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Charts

The chart function displays your vessel’s position relative to land and other chart objects. On the panel you can plan and navigate routes, place waypoints, overlay a radar image or weather information, and display AIS targets.

The NSO-II has dierent embedded cartography depending on region. Units sold in America will include Insight cartography, while units sold in other regions will have an embedded basemap plus a cartography SD card. Depending on region, the cartography options available are CMAP BDS or downloadable Navionics or CMAP for Europe. All units will support Navionics Platinum Plus and TurboView via the SD Card slot on the NSO Processor. Charts are shared over the network, so only one chart card per boat is required.

The rst part of this section describes common usage of the charts. Chart options depend on type of cartography. For more details, see further ahead in this section.

Chart panel

North indicator

Grid lines *

Waypoint *

Vessel

Track *

* Optional chart items

¼ Note: You turn the optional images on/o individually. See “Chart settings panel” on

pag e 19.

Route *

Extension line *

Range rings *

Range rings

interval *

Chart range scale

Chart scale

You zoom in and out on the chart by using the IN/OUT keys or by using the rotary knob on OP40.

Chart range scale and range rings interval (when turned on) will be shown in the lower right corner of the chart panel.

Panning the chart

You can move the chart in any direction by tapping the screen and smoothly move your nger in the desired direction., or use the 4-way cursor on OP40.

Tapping the Clear cursor button will remove the cursor from the panel, and the chart center will be positioned at the vessel.

Vessel symbol

Position and orientation

When a GPS and a suitable heading sensor are connected to the system, the vessel symbol indicates vessel position and heading.

Without a heading sensor tted, the vessel icon will orientate itself using COG (Course over Ground). If no GPS is available the vessel symbol will include a question mark.

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Using the cursor on the chart panel

The cursor is by default not shown on the chart panel.

When you tap the screen, the cursor will become visible and the cursor position window will be activated. When the cursor is active, the chart will not pan or rotate to follow the vessel.

To remove the cursor and cursor window from the panel, press and hold the OP40 VESSEL key or tap the Clear cursor panel button, which also will center the chart to vessel position.

Displaying information about chart and chart objects

When you tap a chart item, a waypoint, a route or a target, basic information for the selected item will be displayed.

By pressing and holding your nger on a chart item, all available information for that item will be shown.

The information can also be displayed by using the menu.

¼ Note: Popup information has to be enabled to

see basic item information.

If the cursor is not active, available information for objects close to the vessel can be displayed.

If no information is available, the Info menu item will not be shown.

S ee “Waypoints, routes & tracks” on page 26 for more information about waypoints and routes.

Placing waypoints

You place a waypoint by tapping the chart panel on the selected position and then activating the menu.

Creating routes

You can quickly create routes by tapping the chart panel.

1. Activate the menu

2. Tap the screen to position the rst routepoint, and then continue tapping the screen to

place the remaining routepoints

3. Save the route by tapping the Finish editing panel button or by activating the menu

Dragging waypoints

1. Tap the waypoint to make it active

2. Drag the waypoint to the new position

The waypoint position will automatically be saved.

Measuring distance

The cursor can be used to measure the distance between your vessel and a selected position, or between 2 points on the chart panel.

1. Tap the screen on the place to where you want to measure

the distance from the vessel

2. Start the measure function from the menu

• A line will be drawn from the vessel center to the cursor position, and the distance will be listed in the Cursor Information window

3. Reposition the measuring points by tapping and dragging the icon at either end.

You terminate the measuring function by tapping the Finish measuring panel button.

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Positioning the chart on the panel

Chart orientation

Several options are available for how the chart is rotated in the panel. The chart orientation symbol in the panel’s upper right corner indicates the north direction.

North up Heading up Course up

North up

Displays the chart with the north direction upward. Corresponds to the usual orientation of nautical charts.

Heading up

Displays the chart with the vessel’s heading directly up on the chart image. Heading information is received from a compass. If heading is not available, then the COG from the GPS will be used.

Course up

Rotates the chart in the direction of the next waypoint when in navigation mode. This option works only when there’s an active route. If no route is active the heading up orientation will be used until a route is made active.

Look ahead

This option centres the chart slightly forward of your vessel so that you can maximize your view ahead.

Chart settings panel

Settings and display options made in the Chart settings page are common for all chart panels.

For optional chart panel settings, refer the illustration on page 17.

3D boat selection

Determines which icon to use on 3D charts. See “Chart panel” on page 17.

Range Rings

Turns on/o range rings on the chart.

The range rings can be used to present the distance from your vessel to other chart objects.

The range scale is set automatically by the system to suit the chart scale.

Vessels’ extension lines

Sets the length of the extension lines for your vessel and for other vessels shown as AIS targets.

The length of the extension lines are either set as a xed distance, or to indicate the distance the vessel will move in the selected time period.

Own vessel heading is based on information from the active heading sensor and COG from active GPS sensor.

For other vessels COG data is included in the message received from the AIS system.

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COG

Heading

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Synchronize 2D/3D chart

Links the position shown on one chart with the position shown on the other chart when a 2D and a 3D chart are shown side by side.

Pop-up information

Selects whether basic information for chart items shall be displayed when you tap the item.

Grid lines

Turns on/o viewing of longitude and latitude grid lines on the chart.

Waypoints, Routes, Tracks

Turns on/o displaying of these items on chart panels.

Chart overlay

Radar, Structure, AIS and weather information can be displayed as overlay on your chart panel.

When radar or weather overlay is selected, the chart context menu will be expanded to include basic function for the selected overlay.

Radar, weather and AIS functions are described in separate sections in this manual.

Selecting chart type

Chart type is selected from the chart options menu, and the selection is set individually for each chart panel.

If you have Navionics charts available in the SD card slot, you can show Navionics and Insight charts simultaneously in a split screen.

¼ Note: To show C-Map charts, you need to select Insight chart type in the menu.

If Insight chart is embedded and you have a C-MAP card in the slot or on the Ethernet network, the system will automatically select the chart with most chart details for your displayed region.

The same applies if you have two Navionics charts available.

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Chart data

The NSO-II can use Navionics Platinum Plus and TurboView via SD Card Slot accessible from the NSO Marine Processor box.

Charts are shared over the network, so only one chart card per boat is required.

¼ Note: The system will not automatically switch to embedded cartography if the SD card

is removed. A low-resolution chart will be displayed until you re-insert the SD card or manually switch back to embedded cartography.

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3D charts

There are two 3D view options available:

• Rotate - default view keeping the boat in center on the chart panel

• Pan - allows you to move the 3D chart view away from the vessel

You toggle between these two options by tapping the pan and rotate icons. Active option

is indicated with red icon. You return to default Rotate view by tapping the Return to vessel panel button.

Rotating 3D chart

In this view the camera position is xed, and the camera can only be rotated and tilted. Be default the vessel’s position will be in center if Look Ahead is not selected. The camera

angle is as seen from your eye position, looking toward the vessel. The vessel’s rotation on the chart is dened by the chart orientation settings.

You can change the camera’s tilt angle by dragging your nger on the screen with vertical motions. You rotate the camera around it’s own vertical axis by dragging your nger horizontally on the screen.

¼ Note: You can only rotate the camera if you have panned away from default vessel posi-

tion, that is when the Return to vessel panel button is available.

Panning

The Pan option allows you to view the entire 3D chart, regardless of vessel position.

You move the camera away from the vessel and around in the chart by dragging your nger on the screen. When you remove your nger from the screen the view will remain in the selected position.

The camera’s tilt angle is as set in Rotate view.

Zooming

You zoom in and out on a 3D chart by using the IN/OUT keys or the rotary knob on OP40.

Insight and CMAP chart options

When working with CMAP cartography, you need to select Insight, as Insight and CMAP chart options are identical.

Chart orientation

See page 19.

Look ahead

This option centres the chart slightly forward of your vessel so that you can maximize your view ahead.

See “3D charts” on page 21.

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Chart imagery style

The charts can be displayed in two dierent imagery styles, either as 2D basic mapping style, or with shaded relief presenting chart including terrain imaging.

2D Shaded relief

Chart detail

Low

This is the basic level of information that cannot be removed, and includes information that is required in all geographic areas. It is not intended to be sucient for safe navigation

Medium

This is the minimum information sucient for navigation

Full

This is all available information for the chart in use

Navionics chart options

Chart orientation and Look ahead

See page 19.

See “3D charts” on page 21.

Community edits

Toggles on the chart layer including Navionics edits. These are user information or edits uploaded to Navionics Community by users, and made available in Navionics charts.

For more information refer to Navionics information included with your chart, or to Navionics website: www.navionics.com .

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Chart view

The built in Navionics chart database provides you with detailed coastal cartography, with 2D and 3D view options.

• 2D presents chart information in a basic mapping mode with Navionics details

• 3D provides a three dimensional graphical view of land and sea contours

Chart shading

Shading adds terrain information to the chart.

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Traditional 2D chart Chart with shading

Dynamic tides and currents

Shows tides and currents with a gauge and an arrow instead of the diamond icons used for static tides and current information.

The tide and current data available in Navionics charts are related to a specic date and time. The NSO-II animates the arrows and/or gauges to show the tides and currents evolution over time.

Dynamic Tide information Dynamic Current information

The following icons and symbology are used:

Icons Description

Current speed.

The arrow length depend on the rate, and the symbol is rotated according to ow direction. Flow rate is shown inside the arrow symbol.

Red symbol used when current speed is increasing,- blue symbol when current speed is decreasing.

Tide height.

The gauge have 8 labels and is set according to absolute max/min value of the evaluated day.

Red arrow used when tide is rising,- blue arrow when tide is falling.

¼ Note: All numeric values are shown in the relevant system units (unit of measurement) set

by user.

Easy View

Magnifying feature increasing the size of chart items and text. In the split screen image below the Easy View is turned ON in the right panel.

¼ Note: There is no indication on the chart showing that this feature is active.

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Photo overlay

Photo overlay enables you to view satellite photo images of an area as an overlay on the chart. The availability of such photos is limited to certain regions.

You can view photo overlays in either 2D or 3D modes.

No Photo overlay Photo overlay, land only Full Photo overlay

Photo transparency

The Photo transparency sets the opaqueness of the photo overlay. With minimum transparency settings the chart details will be almost hidden by the photo.

Minimum transparency Transparency value = 10

Navionics Fish’n Chip

NSO-II supports Navionics Fish’n Chip (US only) chart feature.

For more information, see www.navionics.com.

Depth highlight range

Select a range of depths between which Navionics will ll with a dierent color.

This allows you to highlight a specic range of depths for shing purposes. The range will only be as accurate as the underlying chart data, meaning that if the chart only contains 5 meter intervals for contour lines, the shading will round to the nearest available contour line.

No Depth Highlight Range Depth Highlight Range, 6 m – 12 m

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Shallow water highlight

Highlights areas of shallow water.

This allows you to highlight areas of water between 0 and the selected depth (up to 10 meters/30 feet).

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No Shallow water highlighted Shallow water highlight, 0 m – 3 m

Navionics chart settings

Colored Seabed Areas

Used for displaying dierent depth areas in dierent shades of blue.

Annotation

Determines what area information, such as names of locations and notes of areas, is available on display.

Presentation type

Provides marine charting information such as symbols, colors of the navigation chart and wording for either International or US presentation types.

Chart details

Provides you with dierent levels of geographical layer information.

Safety depth

The Navionics charts use dierent shades of blue to distinguish between shallow and deep water.

The safety depth sets the limit for which depths that shall be drawn without blue shading.

¼ Note: The built in Navionics database features data down to 20 m, after which it is all

white.

Contours depth

Determines which contours you see on the chart down to the selected safety depth value.

Rock lter level

Hides rock identication on the chart beneath a given depth.

This helps you to declutter charts in areas where there are many rocks located at depths well below your vessel draught.

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Waypoints, routes & tracks

Waypoints

A waypoint is a user generated mark positioned on a chart, on a radar image or on an echosounder image. Each waypoint has an exact position with latitude and longitude coordinates. A waypoint positioned on an echosounder image, will in addition to position information have a depth value.

A waypoint is used to mark a position you later may want to return to. Two or more waypoints can also be combined to create a route.

Positioning waypoints

Placing a waypoint at vessel position

You can position a waypoint at the vessel position from any panel by pressing and holding the OP40 PLOT/MARK key.

Using the cursor to position waypoints

On chart, echosounder and StructureScan panels you can place a waypoint on a selected position by making a long press on the screen to activate the panel menu.

Edit waypoints

A selected waypoint can be deleted or edited on a chart panel from the menu, or from the waypoint dialog.

You can quickly move a waypoint on a chart panel by tapping the desired new location on the screen.

Using the edit waypoint dialog

This dialog is activated by tapping the waypoint and then activating the menu, or pressing the rotary knob when the waypoint is selected.

The dialog can also be activated from the Waypoint list. See “Waypoints, route and tracks panels” on page 28.

Waypoint alarm settings

You can set an alarm radius for each individual waypoint you create.

¼ Note: The waypoint radius alarm must be toggled ON in the alarm panel to activate an

alarm when your vessel comes within the dened radius.

Moving a waypoint by tapping the screen

1. Select the waypoint by tapping it

2. Activate the menu and select the move option

- The waypoint icon will change to indicate moving mode

3. Tap on the chart panel to select a new position

4. Conrm the new position by tapping the Finish moving panel button or by pressing the

OP40 rotary knob.

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Routes

A route consists of a series of routepoints entered in the order that you want to navigate them.

When you tap on an existing route, it will turn blue and the route name will be displayed.

Creating new routes

1. From the new route option from the menu

2. Tap the panel to position the rst waypoint

3. Continue tapping the chart panel until all routepoints are positioned

- A waypoint can easily be re-positioned by dragging it to the new position

4. Save the route by tapping the Finish editing panel button or by using the options in the

menu.

The route can also be created from the Routes panel described later in this section.

Edit a route

A route and a waypoint can only be edited from the chart panel when the item is selected.

1. Tap the route to make it active

2. Activate the menu and select the route and edit option

3. Tap the panel to add a new routepoint

• If you tap on a leg a new point will be added between existing routepoints

• If you tap outside the route the new routepoint will be added after the last point in the

route

4. Drag a routepoint to move it to a new position

5. Save the route by tapping the Finish editing panel button or by using the options in the

menu.

¼ Note: a single routepoint can be moved by tapping the routepoint and then selecting the

move option in the menu.

Tracks

A track is a graphical presentation of the historical path of the vessel, allowing you to retrace where you have travelled. A track can be converted to a route in the Tracks panel, as described later in this section.

From the factory, the system is set to automatically draw a track. The system will continue to record the track until the track length reaches the maximum trail point setting, and will then automatically begin overwriting the oldest track points.

The automatic tracking function can be turned o from the Tracks panel described later in this section.

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Creating a new track

You dene the track settings and start the new track from the Tracks Settings dialog described below.

Track settings

The track is made up of a series of track points connected by line segments whose length depends on the frequency of track recording.

You can select to position track points based on time settings, distance, or by letting the NSO-II system position a waypoint automatically when a course change is registered.

¼ Note: The Tracks option must also be turned ON in the chart settings to be visible.

Waypoints, route and tracks panels

The Waypoints, Routes and Tracks panels gives access to advanced edit functions and settings for all these items available on your system.

The edit and settings options are accessed from the menu or by using the dialog buttons when one of the items is selected.

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Navigating with the NSO-II

The navigation function included in the NSO-II allows you to navigate towards the cursor position, a waypoint or along a predened route.

For information about positioning waypoints and creating routes, refer “Waypoints, routes & tracks” on page 26.

Goto menu

You can start navigation from any panel by using the Goto menu, press the OP40 GO TO key.

¼ Note: The Goto cursor option will only be available when the

cursor is active on a Chart, Radar or Echosounder panel.

When the NSO-II starts navigating, the cross track limits will be indicated on the chart. See “Navigation settings panel” on page 30.

Navigating on the chart

You can start navigating on the chart from the chart menu and from the Goto menu. The description and the illustrations below show use of the Goto menu, activated by pressing the OP40 GO TO key.

Navigate to cursor position

You can start navigating towards a point on the chart by tapping the selected destination, activating the Goto menu and selecting the cursor option.

Navigate a route

You can start navigating a route by tapping the route and then activating the Goto menu.

When route navigation is started, the Goto menu will expand showing options for

skipping a waypoint, or for restarting the route from current vessel position.

Selecting start point

You can navigate a route, starting from any waypoint, by positioning the cursor over the selected waypoint and activating the Goto menu.

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Cancel navigation

You cancel navigation from the Goto menu or the chart panel menu.

Navigating with the autopilot

If an AC12, AC42 or an SG05 autopilot computer is connected to the system, autopilot functionality will be included in the NSO-II.

When you start navigation on a system with autopilot functionality, you will be prompted to set the pilot to navigation mode.

If you choose not to engage the autopilot, the pilot can later on still be set to navigation mode from the pilot menu.

For more information about autopilot functionality see “Autopilot” on page 33.

Navigation settings panel

Navigation method

Dierent methods are available for calculating the distance and bearing between any two points on a chart.

The great-circle route is the shortest path between two points. However, if you are to travel along such a route, it would be dicult to steer manually as the heading would constantly be changing (except in the case of due north, south, or along the equator).

Rhumb lines are tracks of constant bearing. It is possible to travel between two locations using Rhumb line computation, but the distance would usually be greater than if Great circle is used.

Steering alarm limits

Arrival radius

Sets an invisible circle around the destination waypoint.

The vessel is considered arrived at the waypoint when it is within this radius.

O course (XTE) limit

This parameter denes the vessel’s accepted oset distance from the leg. If the vessel goes beyond this limit an alarm will be activated.

Arrival alarm

When the arrival alarm is enabled, an alarm will be activated when the vessel reaches the waypoint or when it is within the specied arrival radius.

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Magnetic variation

Magnetic variation is the dierence between true bearings and magnetic bearings, caused by dierent location of the Geographic and the Magnetic north poles. Any local anomalies such as iron deposits might also aect the magnetic bearings.

Magnetic variation is applied in order to navigate with heading in “True” mode.

When set to Auto, the system automatically converts magnetic north to true north. Select manual mode if you need to enter your own local magnetic variation.

Datum

Most paper charts are made in the WGS84 format, which also is used by the NSO-II system.

If your paper charts are in a dierent format, you can change the datum settings accordingly to match your paper charts.

Coordinate system

Several coordinate systems can be used to control the format for lat./lon coordinates displayed on the chart panel.

Phantom Loran

Enables use of Phantom Loran.

Loran settings

Denes Loran chains (GRI) and preferred station for waypoint entry, cursor position and position panel.

The graphic example shows cursor position window with Loran position information.

For more information refer to your Loran system documentation.

Navigation panels

The Steer and Position panels can be used to display information when you are navigating.

Steer panel

Data elds

Tap left/right

arrow symbol to

scroll

Vessel symbol O course limit

Course line

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Data elds

The Steer panel oers the following information:

DTD Distance to destination

BTW Bearing to waypoint

SOG Speed over ground

COG Course over ground

TTD Time to destination

ETA Estimated time of arrival at next waypoint

VMG Velocity Made Good towards next waypoint.

STEER Course to steer towards next waypoint

Course line

When travelling on a route the course line shows the intended course from one waypoint towards the next.

When navigating towards a waypoint (cursor position, MOB or an entered lat/lon position), the course line will show the intended course from the point at which navigation was started towards the next waypoint.

Vessel symbol

The vessel symbol indicates distance and bearing relative to the intended course.

O course limit

If the XTE exceeds the dened o course limit (Refer “Steering alarm limits” on page 30), this will be indicated with a red arrow including the distance from the track line.

If the o course alarm is enabled, the alarm will activate if the XTE exceeds the dened o course limit.

Position panels

By default, there is one position panel available showing GPS position.

If Loran is enabled as described on page 31, there will be two position panels. This is indicated with arrow symbols on left and right side of the panel.

You toggle between the panels by tapping the left or right side of the panel.

GPS position info Loran position info

Data elds

Position in lat. and lon. (GPS) or as Loran GRI and station values

Time and date

SOG Speed over ground

COG Course over ground

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Autopilot

If an AC12, AC42 or SG05 autopilot computer is connected to the system, autopilot functionality will be available in the NSO-II via OP40 Remote Control.

An Autopilot is designed to maintain an accurate course in various sea conditions with minimal helm movements.

Safe operation with the autopilot

Warning: An autopilot is a useful navigational aid, but DOES NOT under any cir-

cumstances replace a human navigator.

Switching from automatic mode to manual steering

You can switch the autopilot to STBY mode from any automatic operation mode by a short press on the OP40 STBY/AUTO key.

¼ Note: If the NSO-II is connected to an EVC system via the SG05, you can take manual

control of the steering irrespective of the autopilot mode. Refer “Using the autopilot in an EVC system” on page 43.

Activating the autopilot

You can activate the autopilot from any panel as shown below.

S ee “Autopilot settings panel” on page 44 for further information

STBY

AUTO

Autopilot pop up

You can only enable the autopilot once the pop-up is displayed.

Manual adjustments to the set heading can only be made when the port and starboard indicators are illuminated red and green this is done by tapping the autopilot pop-up or pressing the OP40 rotary knob.

The autopilot popup shows active mode, heading, rudder and various steering information depending on active autopilot mode.

The pop-up has a xed position on the page, and it can be shown on all pages except when an Autopilot panel is active.

You remove the pop-up from a page by tapping the pressing the OP40 X key.

Autopilot mode indication at top of page

Autopilot information is by default shown at the top of the pages when the Autopilot pop-up is not displayed.

You can select to turn this information o via the Auto hide option in the autopilot’s settings menu (only in Standby mode).

in the upper right corner or by

Compass symbol on the chart panel

You can select to show a compass symbol around your boat on the chart panel. The compass symbol will be o when the cursor is active on the panel.

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Autopilot panel

The autopilot panel is used to display information when you are navigating. It replaces the autopilot pop-up when used in full screen, or on any pages where it is used as a split pane. The autopilot mode indication bar will also not be shown when the autopilot panel is used.

The shortcut icon used to activate the autopilot panel is by default available on the Pages panel. The panel can however only be used when an AC12, AC42 or SG05 computer is available on the network.

Data elds

The autopilot panel shows destination name, heading and rudder information. The following abbreviations are used:

CTS Course to steer

DTD Distance to destination

SOG Speed over ground

COG Course over ground

DTW Distance to next waypoint

XTE Cross track error

Selecting autopilot modes

You select an automatic mode or a feature from the Autopilot Mode selection menu, activated by tapping the mode icon or by pressing the MENU key.

Autopilot mode overview

The autopilot has several steering modes. Number of modes and features within the mode depend on boat type and available inputs, as shown in table on the next page.

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Rudder feedback or VRF

Heading, speed

Heading, speed, position

Heading, speed, position,

waypoint/route information

Heading, speed, wind angle

Heading, speed, wind angle,

waypoint/route information

Controls the rudder movement by using the red (port) and

x x

Power steering

green (starboard) indicators in the autopilot pop-up

x x Sets rudder angle by using the rotary knob Rudder feedback

(NFU)

DESCRIPTION REQUIRED INPUT

BOAT TYPE

MODE FEATURE

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Standby (passive) mode used when manually steering the boat at the helm

MOTOR SAIL

Moves the boat automatically in pre-dened turn steering patterns (Motorboats only)

x x Keeps the boat on set heading

x x Cancels the turn and continues on the heading read from the compass

Turn (Pattern) x

Heading

capture

Turn (Tacking) x Changes commanded heading with a pre-dened value

x x Keeps the boat on a straight bearing line

x x Steers the boat to a specic waypoint location, or through a route of waypoints

Dodging x x Resumes NoDrift mode after a heading change

x Steers the boat to maintain the set wind angle

x Steers the boat to a specic waypoint location, or through a route of waypoints

Tacking x Mirrors the set wind angle to the opposite side of the bow

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Controlling steering performance in automatic modes

The autopilot should be congured during installation and setup. Some parameters may be adjusted during operation to increase the steering performance. Refer to “Autopilot settings panel” on page 44.

Using the autopilot in standby mode

The autopilot must be in STBY mode when you steer the boat manually.

You can switch the autopilot to STBY mode from any operation by a short press on the OP40 STBY/AUTO key.

Power steering (NFU)

If you tap the PORT or STBD key icons in the pop-up dialog when the autopilot is in STBY mode, the system will switch to NFU (NonFollow-Up). You can then use the key icons to control the rudder, and the rudder will move as long as the key is pressed.

You return to STBY mode by a short press on the OP40 STBY/

AUTO key.

Follow-up steering (FU)

You can select Follow-up steering from the Autopilot menu.

When FU is active you can use the rotary knob to set rudder angle. The set angle is indicated by the yellow pointer above the rudder angle graphic. The rudder will move to the commanded angle and then stop.

Warning: While in Follow-up mode you cannot take manual control of the wheel.

You return to STBY mode by a short press on the OP40 STBY/AUTO key.

AUTO mode (auto compass)

When the AUTO key is pressed, the autopilot selects the current boat heading as the set course. The yellow arrow shows the vessel’s actual heading. If the arrow is pointing directly upwards, the vessel is on course.

The autopilot will keep the boat on the set course until a new mode is selected or a new course is set with the OP40 rotary knob or the PORT or STBD key icons.

Once the course is changed to a new set course, the boat will automatically turn to the new heading and maintain the new course.

Heading capture

When in AUTO or NoDrift mode the heading capture feature allows you to automatically cancel the turn you are in by an instant press on the OP40 rotary knob. The autopilot will cancel the turn to continue on the heading read from the compass the very moment you pressed the OP40 rotary knob. This is a useful feature if you are not sure of the exact turn you have to make to steer towards e.g. an inlet or a dock.

Turn pattern steering (power boats)

The autopilot includes a number of automatic turn steering features for power boats when the pilot is in AUTO mode.

The turn steering option will not be available if the boat type is set to sailboat - instead the tack/gybe feature is implemented.

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Initiating a turn

The illustration below shows how you start the spiral turn steering from the Autopilot menu.

You select the turn direction and start the turn by tapping the left or right keys or by using the OP40 rotary knob.

Stopping the turn

You can at any time during a turn press the OP40 STBD/AUTO key to return to standby mode and manual steering.

Turn variables

All turn steering options, except the C-turn, have settings that you may adjust before you start a turn and at any time when the boat is in a turn. Refer to the example above.

U turn

U-Turn changes the current set course to be 180° in the opposite direction.

The turn rate is identical to default rate of turn (ROT) setting. This cannot be changed during the turn.

C-turn

C-turn makes the boat turn in a circle.

You can adjust the turn rate (ROT) before the turn is initiated and during the turn. Increasing the turn rate makes the boat turn a smaller circle.

Turn parameter Range Change per step Default Units

Rate of turn (ROT) 10 - 600 5 90 °/min

Spiral-turn

Spiral-turn makes the boat turn in a spiral with a decreasing or increasing radius. This feature may be used for circling sh or when searching an object.

If the Change radius is set to zero, the boat will turn in a circle. Negative values indicate decreasing radius while positive values indicate increasing radius.

Turn parameter Range Change per step Default

Initial radius

Change of radius per turn

33 ft - 3281 ft

10 m - 1000 m

-164 ft - +164 ft

-50 m - +50 m

656 ft

200 m

66 ft

20 m

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Zigzag-turns

For navigating in a zigzag pattern, you set the initial course change before the turn is started.

During the turn you can alter the course change and the leg distance.

The main course can be changed by turning the rotary knob.

A = Initial course change

B = Course change

C = Leg distance

Turn parameter Range Change per step Default

Course change 4° - 140° 4 28°

Leg distance

Square-turn

82 ft - 9843 ft

25 m - 3000 m

1641 ft

500 m

The square-turn feature makes the boat automatically turn 90° after having travelled a dened leg distance.

You can at any time during the turn change the distance of the leg until the boat makes a new 90° turn. You can also at any time change the main course by turning the rotary knob.

Turn parameter Range Change per step Default

Leg distance

Lazy S-turn

82 ft - 9843 ft

25 m - 3000 m

1641 ft

500 m

In the lazy-s turn the boat will yaw around the main course.

You set the selected course change before the turn is started.

During the turn you can alter the course change and the turn radius.

The main course can be changed by turning the OP40 rotary knob.

Turn parameter Range Change per step Default

Course change 4° - 160° 4 28°

16 ft - 1641 ft

656 ft

Radius

5 m – 500 m

200 m

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Depth Contour Tracking, DCT

If the system has input from an echosounder, the autopilot can be set to follow a depth contour.

Warning: Do not use this feature unless the seabed is suitable. Do not use it in

rocky waters where the depth is varying signicantly over a small area.

Slope Narrow

Ridge

channel

Use the following process to initiate DCT steering;

1. Ensure that you have depth reading on the NSO-II unit or on a separate depth instrument

2. Steer the boat to the depth you want to track, and in the direction of the depth contour

(main course)

3. Activate AUTO mode, select DCT steering and monitor the depth reading

4. Use the port and starboard indicators in the autopilot pop-up to initiate the DCT steering

to follow the bottom sloping to starboard or to port

The following parameters are available for DCT steering:

Turn parameter Range Change per step Default

Depth gain 5 - 95 5 5

Contour Cross Angle 0° - 50° 1 0

Depth gain

This parameter determines the ratio between commanded rudder and the deviation from the selected depth contour. The higher depth gain value the more rudder is applied.

If the value is too small it will take a long time to compensate for drifting o the set depth contour, and the autopilot will fail to keep the boat on the selected depth.

If the value is set too high the overshoot will increase and the steering will be unstable.

Contour Cross Angle (CCA)

The CCA is an angle that is added to or subtracted from the set course.

With this parameter you can make the boat yaw around the reference depth with lazy-s movements.

The larger the CCA the bigger yawing will be allowed. If you the CCA set to zero there is no S-ing.

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NoDrift mode

This mode combines the autopilot and the positioning information from the GPS.

When NoDrift is activated, the autopilot will draw an invisible bearing line based on current heading from the boat’s position.

Unlike in AUTO (compass) mode the autopilot will now use the position information to calculate the cross track error, and automatically keep your track straight.

You can use the port and starboard indicators in the autopilot pop-up or the rotary knob to reset the bearing line while in NoDrift mode.

Dodging

If you need to avoid an obstacle when using NoDrift mode, you can press STBY and power steer or use the helm until the obstacle is passed.

If you return to NoDrift mode within 60 seconds you can select to continue on previous set bearing line.

If you don’t respond the dialog will disappear and the autopilot will go to NoDrift mode with current heading as set bearing line.

If your dodging maneuver takes more than 60 seconds, the autopilot will remain in Standby mode.

Navigating with the NSO-II

You can use the autopilot feature to automatically steer the boat to a specic waypoint location, or through a route of waypoints. The position information received from the GPS will be used to change the course to steer to keep the boat on the track line and direct to the destination waypoint.

To obtain satisfactory navigation steering, the NSO-II must have valid position input. Autosteering must be tested and determined satisfactory prior to entering the NAV mode:

You can start navigation from any panel by pressing the OP40 GO TO key. The goto cursor option will only be available when the cursor is active on a Chart, Radar or Echosounder panel. For more information about navigating with the NSO-II refer to page 29.

You can also start navigating from the autopilot menu.

When the Navigation mode is initiated, the pilot will automatically keep the vessel on the leg. When your vessel reaches the arrival circle for a waypoint, the pilot will give an audible warning and display an alert screen with the new course information.

If the required course change to the next waypoint is less than the Navigation change limit, the autopilot will automatically change the course. If the required course change to next waypoint in a route is more than the set limit, you are prompted to verify that the upcoming course change is acceptable.

¼ Note: For more information about navigation parameters and how to navigate with the

NSO-II, refer to page 29.

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Waypoint arrival circle

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

The Arrival radius denes the point at which a turn is initiated when you are navigating a route.

WP1

WP2

Arrival circles

The arrival circle should be adjusted according to boat speed. The higher the speed, the wider the circle. The intention is to make the autopilot start the heading change in due time to make a smooth turn onto the next leg.

The gure below may be used to select the appropriate waypoint circle when creating the route.

Boat speed in knots

arrival circle,

radius in 1/100 nm

Example: With the speed of 20 knots you should use a waypoint circle with radius 0.09 nm.

¼ Note: The distance between any waypoints in a route must not be smaller than the radius

of the waypoint arrival circle when using automatic waypoint shift.

Sailing with the autopilot

Several sailing parameter should be dened before entering Wind or WindNav mode. These parameters are described in the separate installation manual.

Wind vane steering

The WIND mode is only available if the system has been set up for sailboat in the Autopilot Installation menu.

Before the WIND mode is started it must be veried that valid input from wind transducer is available.

Initiate wind steering as follows;

1. Switch the Autopilot to AUTO mode

2. Adjust the boat heading until wind angle is according to the angle you want to maintain

3. Press the OP40 MENU key, and select Wind

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The set course to steer (CTS) and set wind angle are entered from the compass heading and the wind transducer at the moment the WIND mode is selected. From that point the autopilot will change the course to maintain the wind angle as the wind direction may change.

Tacking

¼ Note: The tack function is only available when the system is set up for SAIL boat type.

Tacking should only be performed into the wind and must be tried out in calm sea conditions with light wind to nd out how it works on your boat. Due to a wide range of boat characteristics (from cruising to racing boats) the performance of the tack function may vary from boat to boat.

You can initiate the tack function both from AUTO and from WIND mode.

In both modes you can interrupt the tack operation, as long as the tack dialog is open, by selecting the opposite tacking direction. When interrupted the boat will return to the previous set heading.

S ee “Sailing parameters” on page 45 for further information.

Tacking in Auto mode

Tacking in AUTO mode is dierent from tacking in WIND mode. In AUTO mode the tack angle is xed and as dened by the user.

When tacking direction is selected the autopilot changes the current set course according to the set xed tacking angle.

Tacking in Wind mode

Tacking in WIND mode as compared to AUTO mode can be performed when sailing with apparent or true wind as the reference. The true wind angle should be less than 90 degrees.

The rate of turn during the tack will be given by the Tack time dened in the sailing parameter setup (refer illustration above). The tack time is also controlled by the speed of the boat to prevent loss of speed during a tack.

When you initiate the tacking, the autopilot will immediately mirror the set wind angle to the opposite side of the bow.

Gybing

Gybing is possible when the true wind angle is larger than 120°.

The time to make a gybe is determined by the speed of the boat to make it as quick as possible within control.

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Tack and gybe prevent

You should use the autopilot with care when beating and running.

If the sails are unbalanced when beating, yaw forces from the sails can drive the boat into the wind. If the boat is driven beyond the set minimum wind angle, the thrust from the sails will suddenly disappear and reduces the boat speed. The boat will then be more dicult to steer as the rudder will become less eective.

The tack prevent function in WIND mode has been implemented to avoid such situations. It will react immediately when the apparent wind angle becomes 5° less than the set minimum wind angle, and more rudder will be commanded.

When running, it is dicult to steer the boat with waves coming sideways or from behind.

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The waves may yaw the boat into an unwanted gybe; this can be hazardous for both the crew and the mast.

The gybe prevent function will be activated when the actual apparent wind angle becomes greater than 175° or gets opposite to the set wind angle. More rudder will be commanded to prevent an unwanted gybe.

The tack and gybe prevent functions are not a guarantee against getting into a hazardous situation. If the eect of the rudder and/or drive unit is not adequate, a dangerous situation may occur. Pay particular attention in such situations.

Wind steering and navigation

In Wind Nav the autopilot steers the boat given both wind data and track data from the NSO-II navigation function.

In Wind Nav mode the autopilot calculates the initial course change needed to navigate towards the active waypoint, but the pilot will also utilize the current wind direction in the calculation.

Using the NSO-II in an AP24/AP28 system

Command transfer

If your NSO-II unit is connected to an autopilot system including an AP24 or AP28 control unit, only one control unit can be active at the same time. An inactive unit is indicated with an envelope symbol in the display.

You can take command from an inactive NSO-II unit with active autopilot pop-up by turning or pressing the OP40 rotary knob.

If the pop-up is not displayed, you can take command from the NSO-II unit by pressing and holding the OP40 STBD/AUTO key to bring up the mode selection menu, and then conrming active mode.

Locking remote stations

The AP24/AP28 includes a Remote Lock function that will disable all other control units. A locked unit is indicated with a key symbol.

When the remote lock function is enabled on AP24/AP28 no transfer of command to NSO-II or other AP heads on the system can take place, only the active AP control unit stays in command.

You can only unlock the remote stations from the AP24/AP28 unit in command.

Using the autopilot in an EVC system

When the NSO-II is connected to an EVC system via the SG05, you can take manual control of the steering irrespective of the autopilot mode.

The mode indicator on the pilot pop-up will be replaced by a dash to indicate EVC override.

The system will return to NSO-II control in standby mode if no rudder command is given from the EVC system within a predened period.

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Autopilot settings panel

The Autopilot settings panel gives access to settings that might be changed by the user during operation of the autopilot.

For information about installation, see the separate NSO-II Installation manual.

Auto-hide

Autopilot information is by default shown on top of the pages when the Autopilot pop-up is not displayed. You can select to turn this information o.

Chart compass

You can select to show a compass symbol around your boat on the chart panel. The compass symbol will be o when the cursor is active on the panel.

Locking an NSO-II unit

If two NSO-II units are included in the system, the non-active NSO-II unit can be locked to prevent unauthorized operation of the autopilot.

When the unit is locked this is indicated with a lock symbol and with text in the pop up.

When the lock function is in use, no automatic modes can be selected from the NSO-II unit.

¼ Note: The lock function is not available on the NSO-II unit which is active as pilot control!

If the NSO-II unit is part of an AP24/AP28 system, the unit can be locked from the AP24/ AP28 control unit.

Sea state lter

The Seastate lter is used to reduce rudder activity and autopilot sensitivity in rough weather.

OFF Seastate lter is disabled. This is default

AUTO Reduces rudder activity and autopilot sensitivity in rough weather by an

adaptive process. The AUTO setting is recommended if you want to use the seastate lter

MANUAL Linked to the steering response control settings described previously. It

may be used to manually nd the optimum combination of course keeping and low rudder activity in rough but steady sea conditions

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Sailing parameters

¼ Note: Sailing parameter settings are only available if the boat type is set to Sail.

Tack time

When performing a tack in WIND mode, the rate of turn (tack time) can be adjusted. This will give single-handed sailors time to handle the boat and the sails during a tack.

A turn performed without shifting wind side, will also be made at a controlled turn rate.

Range Change per step Default Units

2 - 50 1 12 seconds

Tack angle

This value is used to preset the course change used when tacking in AUTO mode. By pressing the port and starboard indicators in the autopilot pop-up the course will change as much as this value.

Range Change per step Default Units

50 - 150 1 100 °

Wind function

With wind function set to AUTO, the autopilot will automatically select between apparent and true wind steering. AUTO is default and recommended for cruising.

When the boat is running, it will also be surng on the waves. This may lead to signicant changes in boat speed, and thereby also changes in apparent wind angle. True wind steering is therefore used when running, while steering to apparent wind is used when beating or reaching.

Apparent wind steering is preferred when you want to achieve maximum boat speed. The autopilot tries to maintain a constant apparent wind angle to get maximum thrust from a given trim of the sails.

When sailing in closed waters, the apparent wind angle may change temporarily due to wind gusts. It may then be preferred to sail to the true wind.

VMG optimizing

You can optimize the VMG to wind. When selected, the function will be active for 5–10 minutes after a new wind angle has been set and only when beating.

Layline steering

Layline steering is useful when navigating. Cross Track Error (XTE) from the navigator will keep the boat on the track line. If the XTE from the navigator exceeds 0.15 nm, the autopilot will calculate the layline and track towards the waypoint.

Response

By default the system switches between HI/LO parameter set based on speed (motor boats) or speed and wind (sail boats). You can however select to manually set which parameter set that shall be used.

HI or LO must be selected if no speed input is available.

You can manually ne tune each of the two (HI/LO) parameter sets. Level 4 is default with parameter values as set by the autotune function. If no autotune is made (not recommended) the level 4 values are the factory default values.

A low response level reduces the rudder activity and provides a more “loose” steering.

A high response level increases the rudder activity and provides a more “tight” steering. A too high response level will make the boat start S-ing.

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Automatic steering

This option displays an overview of all autopilot steering parameters, and you can adjust parameters if required.

For more details, refer to the separate AC12/AC42 Installation manual.

Installation

Used for autopilot installation and commissioning. See the separate AC12/AC42 or SC05 Installation manual.

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Radar

The radar panel can be set up as a full screen view or combined with other panels.

The radar image can also be displayed as an overlay to existing 2D and 3D chart views. Refer to “Charts” on page 17.

¼ Note: Radar overlay requires data from heading sensor.

Radar panel

Range markers *Range rings *

Rotary controls

North Indicator *

Data bar

Range

Orientation

Motion

Compass *

* Optional radar symbology.

Radar symbology can be turned ON/OFF collectively from the Radar menu, or individually as described in “Radar settings panel” on page 54.

Heading line *

Radar operational modes

The radar’s operational modes are controlled from the NSO-II unit. The following modes are available:

O

The power to the radar scanner is turned o

Standby

The power to the radar scanner is on, but the radar is not transmitting.

Transmit

The scanner is on and transmitting. Detected targets will be drawn on the radar PPI (Plan Position Indicator).

Using the cursor on the radar panel

The cursor is by default not shown on the radar image.

When you tap the radar panel the cursor and the cursor position window will be activated.

The cursor can be used to measure a distance to a target, and to select targets as described later in this section.

To remove the cursor and cursor elements from the panel, tap the Clear cursor panel

button or the OP40 X key.

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Optimizing the radar image

You may be able to improve the radar image by adjusting the radar sensitivity, and by ltering out the random echoes from sea and weather conditions.

You select between the control images by tapping the image or by pressing the OP40 rotary knob. Active control will expand and display its name in full. You can then adjust the value by turning the OP40 knob or by a vertical dragging movement on the control you want to adjust.

Gain

The gain controls the sensitivity of the radar receiver.

A higher gain makes the radar more sensitive to radar returns, allowing it to display weaker targets. If the gain is set too high, the image might be cluttered with background noise.

Gain has a manual and an automatic mode. You cycle through the modes by pressing and holding the OP40 rotary knob. You can only adjust the gain value in manual mode by turning the OP40 rotary knob or a vertical dragging movement over the gain control.

Sea clutter

Sea clutter is used to lter the eect of random echo returns from waves or rough water near the vessel.

When you increase Sea Clutter ltering the on-screen clutter caused by the echoes of waves will be reduced.

A long-press on the OP40 rotary knob will cycle through available Sea clutter modes. You can only adjust the sea clutter value in manual mode by turning the OP40 rotary knob or a vertical dragging movement over the sea clutter control.

Rain Clutter

The Rain clutter is used to reduce the eect of rain, snow or other weather conditions on the radar image.

Adjust value by turning the OP40 rotary knob or a vertical dragging movement over the rain clutter control.

The value should not be increased too much as this may lter out real targets.

Rejecting radar interference

Interference could be caused by radar signals from other radar units operating in the same frequency band.

A high setting will reduce the interference from other radars.

In order to not miss weak targets, the interference rejection should be set low when no interference exists.

Positioning the radar center

You can move the radar PPI center to dierent positions within the radar panel, and select how your vessel symbol moves on the radar image.

Radar motion is indicated on the upper left corner of the radar panel as either TM (True motion) or RM (Relative motion).

The radar position can only be changed when the radar is transmitting.

Center

Default setting. The radar PPI center is centered on the radar panel.

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Look Ahead

Moves the radar PPI center to the bottom of the panel to give maximum view ahead.

Oset

Allows you to move the PPI center to any location on the radar panel.

1. Select the oset option from the menu

2. Tap the screen where you want to position the radar center

3. Conrm the setting by tapping the SAVE OFFSET key at the top of the screen or by

pressing the OP40 MENU key.

Center Look ahead Custom oset

True motion

In True motion your vessel, and moving targets, move across the Radar screen as you travel. All stationary objects remain in a xed position. When the vessel’s symbol reaches the edge of the screen, the radar image will be redrawn with the vessel symbol repositioned in center of the screen.

When True motion is selected, the menu will expand to include a reset true motion option. This allows for manually resetting the radar image and vessel symbol to screen center.

Measuring range and bearing to a target

Using the cursor

The cursor is by default not shown on the radar image.

When you tap the radar panel the cursor will be visible, and the cursor position window will be activated, showing range and bearing from your vessel to cursor position.

Range rings

The range rings are displayed at preset distances from the vessel based on the radar range.

You can use the range ring to estimate the distance to a radar echo.

EBL/VRM

The electronic bearing line (EBL) and variable range marker (VRM) allows quick measurements of range and bearing to vessels and landmasses within radar range. Two dierent EBL/VRMs can be placed on the radar image.

The EBL/VRM is by default positioned from the center of the vessel. It is however possible to oset the reference point to any selected position on the radar image.

You can position EBL/VRM by using the cursor, and edit the marker position as described below.

When positioned, you can quickly turn the EBL/VRM on/o by tapping the relevant markers on the data bar.

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Dening an EBL/VRM marker

1. Ensure that the cursor is not active on the radar panel

2. Activate the menu

3. Select one of the EBL/VRM markers

4. Select adjustment method, and tap the screen to adjust the marker

5. Tap the panel key to save the marker position

When positioned, you can quickly turn the EBL/VRM on/o by tapping the relevant section on the data bar.

Quick EBL/VRM marker positioning by using the cursor

1. Tap the radar panel to position the cursor

2. Activate the menu

3. Select one of the EBL/VRM markers

- The EBL line and the VRM circle will be positioned according to the cursor position

4. If required, tap the panel to reposition the marker

5. Press Save EBL/VRM panel key or activate the menu to save the position

Setting a guard zone around your vessel

A guard zone is an area (either circular or a sector) that you can dene on the radar image. When activated, an alarm will alert you when a radar target enters or exits the zone.

Dening a guard zone

1. Activate the menu

2. Select one of the guard zones

3. Select shape

4. Select Adjust to position the zone, and tap and drag on the

screen or use the OP40 rotary knob to adjust range, depth, bearing and width

5. Save the position by tapping the panel key or by activating

the menu

When positioned, you can quickly turn the guard zones on/o by tapping the relevant section on the data bar.

Alarm settings

An alarm will be activated when a radar target breaches the guard zone limits. You can select if the alarm will be activated when the target enters or exits the zone.

Sensitivity

The guard zone sensitivity can be adjusted to eliminate alarms for small targets.

Radar options

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The radar threshold

The threshold sets required signal strength for the lowest radar signals. Radar returns below this limit will be ltered and not displayed.

Default value: 30%.

Target boost

The target boost option is used for increasing the size of radar targets.

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Target expansion

Target expansion will override and increase the default radar pulse length, providing larger target returns.

Target trails

You can dene how long time the trail that each target leaves should remain on your radar panel. You can also turn OFF target trails.

¼ Note: True motion is recommended when using Target trails

Clearing target trails from the panel

When target trails are displayed on the panel, the radar menu will be expanded to include an option where you can clear target trails from your radar panel temporarily. The target trails will start to appear again unless you switch them o as described above.

The radar palette

Dierent colors (palettes) can be used to represent detail on your radar panel.

Radar orientation

Radar orientation is indicated on the upper left corner of the radar panel as either HU (Heading UP), NU (North Up) or CU (Course up).

Heading up

Rotates the radar image to display the current heading directly up on the radar image.

North up

Rotates the radar image with the north direction upwards.

Course up

Rotates the radar image to display the current navigation course directly up.

This option works only when the NSO-II is navigating an active route. If you are not navigating an active route the heading up orientation will be used until the navigation function is started.

Fast scan

(Broadband Radar™ only).

Increases the speed of the radar scanner when the range is set to 2 nm or less. This option gives faster updates on target movements within this range.

STC curve

(Broadband Radar™ only).

The STC (Sensitivity Time Control) controls the sensitivity of the radar signal close to your vessel. Your selection should be based on the current sea conditions.

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MARPA targets

If the NSO-II includes a heading sensor, the MARPA function (Mini Automatic Radar Plotting Aid) can be used to track up to tem radar targets.

You can dene alarms to notify you if a target gets too close. Refer “MARPA target settings” on page 52.

MARPA tracking is an important tool for collision avoidance.

¼ Note: MARPA requires heading data for both the radar and the NSO-II .

MARPA target symbols

The NSO-II system use the target symbols shown below.

Symbol Description

Acquiring MARPA target. Typically it takes up to 10 full rotations of the scanner

Tracking MARPA target, not moving or at anchor.

Tracking and safe MARPA target with extension lines.

Dangerous MARPA target.

A target is dened as dangerous based on the CPA, TCPA and AIS Range settings. Refer “Vessel alarm settings” on page 53.

When no signals have been received within a time limit a target will be dened as lost.

The target symbol represents the last valid position of the target before the reception of data was lost.

Selected MARPA target, activated by tapping on the target icon.

The target will return to default target symbol when the cursor is removed.

Tracking MARPA targets

1. Tap on the target on the radar panel

2. Select Acquire targets from the menu

3. Repeat process for more targets

Once your targets are identied, it may take up to 10 radar sweeps to acquire and then track the target.

Cancelling target tracking

When targets are being tracked, the radar menu will expand to include options for cancelling individual targets or to stop the tracking function.

Cancel tracking individual targets by tapping the icon before activating the menu.

Viewing target information

Basic target information can be shown in the data bar.

You can also use the Vessels window under Tools pages to view information about targets.

MARPA target settings

Several vessel settings dene alarm limits and how the targets are displayed on your radar image.

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Target trails and safe rings

You can dene the length of the MARPA trail making it easier to follow target movement.

A circle can be added around the MARPA target to present the danger zone. Refer “Dening dangerous vessels” on page 53.

Vessels extension lines

Sets the length of the extension lines for your vessel and for other vessels.

The length of the extension lines is either set as a xed distance, or to indicate the distance the vessel will move in the selected time period.

Dening dangerous vessels

You can dene dangerous vessels based upon CPA (Closest Point of Approach) or TCPA (Time to Closest Point of Approach). When your vessel comes within this distance from a vessel, the symbol will change to the “dangerous” target symbol. An alarm will be triggered if activated in the Alarm settings panel.

Vessel alarm settings

You can dene several Vessels alarms to alert you if a target comes within predened range limits, or if a previously identied target is lost.

Alarm ID Description

Dangerous vessel Controls whether an alarm shall be activated when a vessel

comes within the predened CPA or TCPA. See Dening dangerous vessels above.

¼ Note: The check box controls whether the alarm pop-up box

is displayed and if the siren will sound. The CPA and TCPA deﬁnes when a vessel is dangerous regardless of the enabled/ disabled state.

MARPA target lost Controls whether an alarm shall be activated when a MARPA

target is lost

MARPA unavailable Controls whether an alarm shall be activated if you do not have

the required inputs for MARPA to work (valid GPS position and heading sensor connected to the radar server)

Radar overlay

You can overlay the Radar image on the Chart. This can help you to easily interpret the radar image by correlating the radar targets with charted objects.

When the radar overlay is selected, basic radar operational functions are available from the Chart panel’s menu.

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Radar settings panel

Radar symbology

You can turn on/o optional radar symbology individually from the Radar settings page. See illustration showing optional radar items on page 47.

Data bar

Turns on/o the radar data bar. Refer illustration on page 47.

The data bar can show up to 3 targets, arranged with the closest target on top. You can select to show MARPA targets on top and before any AIS targets, even if the AIS targets are closer to your vessel.

MARPA settings

Allows for adding target trails and guard zone indication around a MARPA target. Refer to description on previous pages.

Installation

The Installation option is used for Radar installation, described in the separate NSO-II Installation manual.

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Echosounder

The echosounder function provides a view of the water and bottom beneath your vessel, allowing you to detect sh and examine the structure of the sea oor.

The echosounder displays the water column moving from right to left on the panel.

You can select between single panel view and several split views as described later in this chapter.

Fish arches

Depth

Temperature

Frequency / zoom

Gain/

Color indica-

tors

Sea bed

* Optional echosounder image items

¼ Note: You turn the optional echosounder images on/o individually. See “Echosounder

settings panel” on page 60.

Upper range

Lower range

Temp

graph *

Range scale

Zoom bars *

Depth line *

A-scope *

Setting up the echosounder panel

The echosounder panel is setup from the panel’s main menu.

The range

The range setting determines the water depth that is visible on the screen.

Auto range

If you select Auto, the system will automatically display the whole range from the water surface to the bottom.

Preset range levels

You can select between several preset range levels.

Custom range

This option allows you to manually set both upper and lower range limits.

The echosounder panel can be setup as a single view, or with split view where the left and the right side presents dierent images.

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Split screen options

Zoom

The Zoom mode presents a magnied view of the sounder image on the left side of the panel.

By default the zoom level is set to 2x. You can select up to 8x zoom from the drop-down menu.

The range zoom bars on the right side of the display shows the range that is magnied. If you increase the zooming factor the range will be reduced. You will see this as reduced distance between the zoom bars.

Bottom lock

The bottom lock mode is useful when you want to view echoes close to the bottom.

In this mode the left side of the panel shows an image where the bottom is attened. The range scale is changed to measure from the seabed (0) and upwards. The bottom and the zero line will always be shown on the left image, independent on range scale.

The scaling factor for the image on the left side of the panel is adjusted as described for the Zoom option.

Zoom bars

Echo frequency

The NSO-II unit supports several transducer frequencies. Available frequencies depend on sounder module and which transducer model is connected.

You can view two frequencies at the same time by setting up a dual echosounder.

Noise rejection

Signal interference from bilge pumps, engine vibration and air bubbles can clutter the image.

The noise rejection option lters the signal interference and reduces the on-screen clutter.

Scroll speed

You can select the scrolling speed of the echosounder image on the screen. A high scroll speed will update the image fast, while a low scroll speed will present a longer history.

Zooming

To select zooming level on the Echosounder image, you can use the OP40 rotary knob, or use the IN/OUT keys or simply pinch to zoom IN

and spread to zoom OUT.

Zoom level is shown on the upper left side of the echosounder the panel.

When zooming in, the sea oor will be kept near to bottom of the screen, irrespective of whether it is in auto-range or manual range.

If the range is set considerably less than the actual depth, the unit will not be able to nd the bottom when zooming.

If the cursor is active, the unit will zoom in where the cursor is pointed.

Zoom in Zoom out

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Adjusting color and gain settings

Gain

The gain controls the sensitivity of the echosounder.

The more you increase the gain, the more details will be shown on the image. However, a higher gain setting may introduce more background clutter on the image. Conversely, if the gain is set too low weak echoes may not be displayed.

Auto gain

The Auto gain option will keep the sensitivity at a level that works well under most conditions.

With the gain in auto mode, you can set a positive or negative oset that gets applied to the auto gain. This is indicated as A-40 - A40.

Color

Strong and weak echo signals have dierent colors to indicate the dierent signal strengths. The colors used depend on which palette you select.

The more you increase the Color setting, the more echoes will be displayed in the color at the strong return end of the scale.

Adjusting the Gain and Color settings

Gain and Color are adjustable by tapping and a vertical dragging movement or by using the OP40 rotary knob.

You select between Gain and Color by pressing the OP40 rotary knob. The active control will expand and display it’s name in full. You can then adjust the value by turning the OP40 knob.

If you press and hold the OP40 rotary knob when Gain is selected, you switch between Auto and Manual gain option.

If no adjustments are made within 3 seconds the controls will return to default size.

Using the cursor on the echosounder panel

The cursor is by default not shown on the sounder image.

When you tap the screen the cursor will appear and the depth at the cursor position will be shown, the information window and the history bar will be activated.

To remove the cursor and cursor elements from the panel, press the Clear cursor panel

key or the OP40 X key.

Viewing sounder history

Whenever the cursor is shown on a sounder panel, the red scroll bar is also shown. The scroll bar shows the image you are currently viewing in relation to the total echosounder image history stored.

The scroll bar on the far right side indicates that you are viewing the latest soundings. If you position the cursor to the left side of the screen, the history bar will start scrolling towards left, and the automatic scrolling as new soundings are received will be turned o.

You can pan the image history by dragging left/right on the screen. To resume normal scrolling, tap the Clear cursor panel button or press the OP40 X key.

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Placing a mark on an echosounder image

You can position a mark at the vessel’s position by pressing and holding the OP40 PLOT/ MARK key.

You can position a mark on a selected echosounder item by tapping the screen and then activating the menu.

¼ Note: Only marks positioned by using the cursor will include depth information.

Measuring distance

The cursor can be used to measure the distance between the position of two observations on the sounder image. It is easier to use the measure function when the sounder image is paused.

1. Activate the menu to start the measure function

- The cursor will be positioned in the middle of

the panel, and the distance will be measured from this position

2. Tap on the screen to select the second measur-

ing point

- A line will be drawn between the measuring

points, and the distance will be listed in the Information window

3. Continue tapping the screen to position new measuring points

When you press the Finish measuring panel button or the OP40 X key, the echosounder will resume to normal scrolling.

Pausing the echosounder

You can pause the sounder, allowing you to examine the sounder echoes. The function is activated from “Echosounder settings panel”, see page 60.

This function is useful when you need to position a waypoint exactly on the echosounder panel, and if you are using the cursor to measure a distance between 2 elements on the image.

Recording echosounder data

You can record echosounder data and save the le internally in the NSO-II unit, or on to an SD card inserted into the unit’s card reader located on the processor box.

The function is activated from “Echosounder settings panel”, see page 60.

The following options are available:

Bytes per sounding

Select how many bytes per seconds that are to be used when saving the log le. More bytes yield better resolution, but will cause the record le to increase in size compared to using lower byte settings.

Log all channels

Logs all available sonar data simultaneously.

When logging all channels, logs are saved in SL2 format instead of .slg format.

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Optional logging format for SideScan data. This will only be available when a StructureScan unit is connected.

This format does not log all channels into one le. The format is used for third part application support on the PC (like SonarWiz) that need access to the StructureScan data.

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When the echosounder image is being recorded, there will be a ashing red symbol and a message will appear periodically at the bottom of the screen.

Recording

symbol

The graphics shows that both conventional echosounder and StructureScan data are being logged

The sounder recording is stopped by re-selecting the Record function.

Logging mes-

sage

Viewing the recorded sounder data

Both internally and externally stored sounder records may be reviewed when selected.

The log le is displayed as a paused image, and you control the scrolling and display from the replay menu.

You can use the cursor on the replay image, and pan the image by tapping and dragging on the screen as on a normal echo image.

If more than one channel was recorded in the selected echo le, you can select which channel to display.

You exit the replay mode by pressing the OP40 X key or the corner.

symbol in the upper right

Echo options

Palettes

Several display palettes with varying degrees of color and brightness are available.

Bottom coloring

The bottom coloring option colors the entire bottom and hard structure in bottom area in one brown shade. This will clearly separate sh and vegetation from the bottom.

No bottom coloring Bottom coloring ON

Optional echosounder image items

Echosounder images can be turned on/o individually. Refer graphics on page 55.

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Fish echoes

You can select how you want the echoes to appear on the echosounder image.

Traditional sh echoes Fish symbols and depth indication

StructureScan™ overlay

When a StructureScan unit is connected to your NSO-II system, you can overlay a DownScan image on the regular echo image.

When activated as described below, the echosounder menu will expand to include basic StructureScan options.

Gain for both images can be adjusted as described on “Adjusting color and gain settings” on page 57.

For more information about StructureScan, see “StructureScan™” on page

62.

Echosounder settings panel

Echosounder source

If you have more than one echosounder on your network, you can select which sounder to be the preferred source on this NSO-II unit.

Network echosounder

You can share the echosounder connected to this NSO-II unit on the network

For more information about how to setup echosounders, refer to the separate NSO-II Installation manual.

Ping speed

The Ping Speed controls the rate the transducer transmits into the water. A high ping speed will make the image move fast on the screen, while a low ping speed will present a longer history on the screen. The reverberation potentially caused by too high ping speed can cause interference on the screen.

TVG

Wave action, boat wakes and temperature inversion can cause on-screen clutter near the surface.

The surface clarity option reduces surface clutter by decreasing the sensitivity of the receiver near the surface.

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Pausing the echosounder

Refer page 58.

Overlay downscan

When a StructureScan unit is connected to your NSO-II system, you can overlay DownScan images on the regular echo image.

When activated, the echosounder menu will expand to include basic StructureScan options. See “StructureScan™ overlay” described previously.

Recording and viewing the echosounder data

See page 58.

Search depth

Noise may cause the echosounder to search for unrealistic depths.

By adjusting the search depth you can avoid that such conditions interfere normal echosounder operation.

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StructureScan™

StructureScan™ is an optional hardware module that uses high frequency to provide a High resolution image of the seabed

StructureScan™ provides a 150 m (480 ft) wide coverage in high detail with SideScan, while the DownScan™ provides picture perfect images of structure and sh directly below your boat, down to 90 m (300 ft).

The StructureScan™ panel is accessed from the shortcut icon on the Pages panel when the StructureScan external box and transducer are tted.

Setting up the StructureScan™ image

The view

The StructureScan panel can be set up as a traditional downscan image, or showing left/ right side scanning.

The DownScan image can also be added as an overlay to the traditional Echosounder image. For more information, refer to “StructureScan™ overlay” on page 60.

DownScan

Color

indicator

Sea bed

Depth

Temperature

Frequency / zoom

Range

scale

Upper range

Lower range

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SideScan

Range

scale

Left water column Right water column

Surface

Range

The range setting determines the water depth that is visible on the screen.

Auto range

When the range is set to Auto the system will automatically set the range depending on the water depth.

Preset range levels

You can select between several preset range levels.

When manually changing the range the upper depth line will always be at the water surface. These options allows you to focus on echoes at the upper part of the water column.

StructureScan™ Frequencies

StructureScan supports two frequencies. 455 kHz is ideal for greater depth penetration and while 800 kHz provides better denition especially at shallower depths.

Zooming

To select zooming level on the StructureScan image, you can use the IN/ OUT keys on OP40 or simply pinch to zoom IN and spread to zoom OUT.

Zoom level is shown on the panel.

Zoom in Zoom out

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DownScan image

When zooming in on a DownScan image, the sea oor will be kept near to bottom of the screen, irrespective of whether it is in auto-range or manual range.

If the range is set considerably less than the actual depth, the unit will not be able to nd the bottom when zooming.

If the cursor is active, the unit will zoom in where the cursor is pointed.

SideScan image

Zooming on a SideScan image acts as for DownScan, except that it zooms on the surface rather than trying to keep the sea oor in view.

When the cursor is active, it will zoom where the cursor is pointed.

Adjusting the color settings

Strong and weak echo signals have dierent colors to indicate the dierent signal strengths. The colors used depend on which palette you select.

The more you increase the Color setting, the more echoes will be displayed in the color at the strong return end of the scale.

Color is adjustable by tapping and a vertical dragging movement or by using the OP40 rotary knob. When you press the knob the color control image will expand and display it’s name in full. You can then adjust the value by turning the knob. If no adjustments are made within 3 seconds the control will return to default size.

Using the cursor on the StructureScan™ panel

The cursor is by default not shown on the StructureScan image.

When you tap the screen the cursor will appear. The left/ right distance from the vessel to the cursor are shown at the cursor position, and the information window and the history bar will be activated.

To remove the cursor and cursor elements from the panel, press the Clear cursor panel button or the OP40 X key.

Viewing StructureScan history

Whenever the cursor is active on a StructureScan panel, the red scroll bar is also shown. The scroll bar shows the image you are currently viewing in relation to the total StructureScan image history stored.

Depending of the view selected, the scroll bar is on the far right side (DownScan) or at the bottom of the screen (SideScan).

You can pan the image history by dragging up/down (SideScan) or left/right DownScan. To resume normal StructureScan scrolling, press the Clear cursor panel button or the

OP40 X key..

Placing a mark on a StructureScan™ image

You can position a mark at the vessel’s position by pressing and holding the OP40 PLOT/ MARK key.

You can position a mark on a selected echosounder item by tapping the screen and then activating the menu.

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Measuring distance

The cursor can be used to measure the distance between two observations on the StructureScan image. It is easier to use the measure function when the sounder image is paused.

1. Activate the menu to start the measure function

- The cursor will be positioned in the middle of the panel, and the distance will be

measured from this position

2. Tap on the screen to select the second measuring point

- A line will be drawn between the measuring points, and the distance will be listed in

the Information window

3. Continue tapping the screen to position new measuring points

When you press the Finish measuring panel button or the OP40 X key, the echosounder will resume to normal scrolling.

Pausing StructureScan™

You can pause the StructureScan, allowing you to examine the structures and other images in more depth and detail.

This function is useful when you need to position a waypoint exactly on the Structurescan image, and if you are using the cursor to measure a distance between 2 elements on the image.

Recording StructureScan™ data

You can record StructureScan data and save the le internally in the NSO-II unit, or onto an SD card as described in “Recording and viewing the echosounder data” on page 61.

Structure options

Structure palette

Several display palettes with varying degrees of color and brightness are available.

Structure noise rejection

Signal interference from bilge pumps, engine vibration and air bubbles can clutter the StructureScan image.

The noise rejection option lters the signal interference and reduces the on-screen clutter.

TVG

Wave action, boat wakes and temperature inversion can cause on-screen clutter near the surface.

The TVG option reduces surface clutter by decreasing the sensitivity of the receiver near the surface.

Flipping Left/Right image

If required, the left/right SideScanning images can be ipped to match the corresponding side of you vessel.

Structure source

If you have more than one StructureScan on your network, you can select which unit to be the preferred source on this NSO-II unit.

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StructureMap

The StructureMap™ feature overlays SideScan images from a StructureScan on the map. This makes it easier to visualize the underwater environment in relation to your position, and aids in interpreting SideScan images.

The example below shows a chart panel with Structure overlay, combined with a traditional SideScan panel.

You move around in the chart as usual when you have a Structure overlay;

- zoom the chart and the scanned image by using or the OP40 IN/OUT keys or the

pinch and spread movement

- move the chart to view scanned image by tapping the screen and dragging your

nger in the selected direction

Pressing the Clear cursor button or the OP40 X key will remove the cursor from the panel, and the chart center will be positioned at the vessel.

Activating Structure overlay

1. Turn on Structure overlay from the chart menu

- The chart menu will be increased to show Structure options

- Structure data will start to appear on the chart screen as soon as Structure overlay is

enabled

2. Select Structure source

- Live data is default

¼ Note: Structure overlay can also be activated by selecting a saved StructureMap le from

the Files dialog.

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StructureMap sources

Two sources can be used to overlay Structure logs on the charts;

- Live data, used when StructureScan units are connected to the NSO-II system

- Saved les. These are recorded StructureScan (*.sl2) data that are converted to

StructureMap (*smf) format. Saved *.smf les can be used onNSO-II units even if no StructureScan units are connected.

Live source

When live data is selected the SideScan imaging history is displayed as a trail behind the vessel icon. The length of this trail will vary depending on available memory in the unit and range settings. As the memory lls up the oldest data will automatically be deleted as new data is added. When increasing the search range the ping speed of the StructureScan transducer is reduced, but the width and the length of the image history will be increased.

¼ Note: Live mode does not save any data. If the unit is turned o, all recent data is lost.

Saved les

When Saved les are selected, the StructureMap le is overlaid on the map based on position information in the le.

If the chart scale is large, the StructureMap area will be indicated with a boundary box until the scale is large enough to show Structure details.

Saved mode is used to review and examine StructureMap les, and to position the vessel on specic points of interest on a previous scanned area.

¼ Note: When saved les are used as source, the NSO-II displays all StructureMap les found

on the SD card and in the system’s internal memory. If there is more than one StructureMap of the same area, the images will overlap and clutter the chart. If several logs of the same area are required, the maps should be put on separate SD cards.

StructureMap tips

- To get a picture of taller structure (a wreck, etc) — don’t drive over it. Steer the boat so

the structure will be on the left or right side of your boat

- Don’t use Autorange when using SideScan. Set your structure range to a signicantly

greater level (two-to-three times) than the water depth to ensure a complete scan and to maximize conversion accuracy

- Don’t overlap history trails when conducting a side-by-side scan of an area

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Recording StructureScan data

StructureScan data can be recorded from a chart panel with Structure overlay enabled.

StructureScan recordings can also be started from a StructureScan panel.

When StructureScan data is being recorded, there will be a ashing red symbol and a message will appear periodically at the bottom of the screen.

¼ Note: The message includes information about

le size. Keep the size of your sonar logs to 100MB or less to allow for faster le conversion.

The sounder recording is stopped by re-selecting the record function.

Converting StructureScan data to StructureMap format

A StructureScan log le (.sl2) is converted to StructureMap format (.smf) after recording from the recording dialog, or from the Files dialog.

You can create standard or high resolution les. High resolution .smf les capture more detail, but take longer to convert and are larger than standard resolution les.

To save disc space it is recommended to remove the StructureScan (*.sl2) les after conversion.

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Using StructureMap with mapping cards

StructureMap allows you to maintain full chart capability and can be used with embedded cartography as well as Navionics, Insight and other third-party charting cards compatible with the NSO-II systems.

When using StructureMap with mapping cards, copy the StructureMap (.smf ) les to the unit’s internal memory. We recommend keeping copies of StructureMap les on external SD cards.

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Structure options

You adjust the StructureMap settings from the Structure options menu. The menu is available when Structure overlay is enabled.

Not all options are available when saved StructureMap les are used as source. Unavailable options are greyed.

Structure Options, Live data Structure Options, Saved data

Range Sets the search range

Sets the opaqueness of the Structure overlay. With minimum

Transparency

transparency settings the chart details will be almost hidden by the StructureMap overlay

Transparency: Max Transparency: Min

Palette Selects Structure palette

Color

Water

column

Frequency

Noise

rejection

Clear live

history

Record data Records StructureScan data

Source Selects StructureMap source

Adjusts the intensity of the Structure image. The more you increase the color the more echoes will be displayed

Shows/hides the water column in Live mode.

Turned OFF schools of bait sh might not be seen on the SideScan image.

Turned ON the accuracy of the SideScan image on the map might be aected by the water depth.

Water column: OFF Water column: ON

Sets the transducer frequency used by the unit. 800 kHz oers the best resolution, while 455 kHz has greater depth and range coverage

Filters the signal interference and reduces the on-screen clutter

Clears existing live mode history trails from the screen and begins showing only the most current data

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Instrument panels

The instrument panels consists of multiple gauges - analog, digital and bar - that can be customized to display selected data. The instrument panel displays data on dashboards, and you can dene up to ten dashboards within the instrument panel.

¼ Note! To include fuel/engine information, engine and tank information has to

be setup from the Settings panel.

Dashboards

Three dashboard layouts are predened to display gauges showing information about vessel, navigation information and angler requirement.

You switch between a panel’s dashboards by tapping the left and right side of the panel, or by selecting the dashboard from the menu.

Vessel dashboard Navigation dashboard Angler dashboard

¼ Note: Additional dashboards can be activated. Refer to “Edit an Instrument dashboard”

below.

Customizing the Instrument panel

You can customize the Instrument panel by changing the data for each of the gauges in the dashboard, by changing the dashboard layout, and by adding new dashboards. You can also set limits of analog gauges.

All edit options are available from the Instrument panel menu.

Available editing options will depend on which data sources that are connected to your system.

Edit an Instrument dashboard

Select the dashboard you want to edit, then;

1. Activate the menu

2. Select the edit option

3. Tap and hold on the gauge you want to change. The selected gauge will have a red out-

line

4. Select info to display

Save your changes by using the menu or by tapping the Finish editing panel button.

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AIS - Automatic Identication System

If an AIS device is connected, any targets detected by this devices can be displayed and tracked. You can also see messages and position for DSC transmitting devices within range.

AIS targets can be displayed as overlay on radar and chart images, and this feature is an important tool for safe travelling and collision avoidance.

You can dene alarms to notify you if an AIS target gets too close or if the target is lost.

AIS vessels on a chart panel AIS vessels on a radar panel

Target symbols

The NSO-II system use the AIS target symbols shown below:

Symbol Description

Sleeping AIS target (not moving or at anchor).

Moving and safe AIS target with course extension line.

Dangerous AIS target, illustrated with bold line.

Lost AIS target.

Selected AIS target, activated by tapping on a target symbol.

A target is dened as dangerous based on the CPA and TCPA settings. Refer “Dening dangerous vessels” on page 73.

When no signals have been received within a time limit a target will be dened as lost.

The target symbol represents the last valid position of the target before the reception of data was lost.

The target will return to default target symbol when the cursor is moved.

Viewing information about AIS targets

Selecting single AIS targets

When you tap an AIS icon on the chart or radar panel the symbol will change to Selected target symbol, and the vessel name will be displayed.

You can display detailed information for a target by activating the menu when the target is selected.

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Viewing information about all AIS targets

Chart pages

From the menu, you can view information about all AIS targets within range of your vessel.

Radar pages

The data bar includes information on up to 3 AIS targets.

The targets are listed with the closest target on top, and are color coded to indicate target status.

Vessel alarms

You can dene several alarms to alert you if a target shows up within predened range limits, or if a previously identied target is lost.

Alarm ID Description

Dangerous vessel Controls whether an alarm shall be activated when a vessel

comes within the predened CPA or TCPA. See “Dening dangerous vessels” on page 73.

¼ Note: The check box controls whether the alarm pop-up

box is displayed and if the siren will sound. The CPA and TCPA denes when a vessel is dangerous regardless of the enabled/disabled state.

AIS vessel lost Sets the range for lost vessels. If a vessel is lost within the set

range this will trigger an alarm

Vessel message Controls whether an alarm shall be activated when a message is

received from an AIS target

Vessel settings panel

Your vessel’s MMSI number

You need to have your own MMSI (Maritime Mobile Service Identity) number entered in the NSO-II system to be able to receive addressed messages from AIS and DSC vessels.

It is also important to have the MMSI number entered to avoid seeing your own vessel as an AIS target on the chart.

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¼ Note: The Vessel message option in the alarm settings must be toggled on if any MMSI

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Filtering the targets

All targets are by default shown on the display if an AIS device is connected to the NSO-II system.

You can select not to show any targets, or to lter the icons based on security settings, distance and vessel speed.

Vessel’s extension lines

The length of the extension lines for your vessel and for other vessels can be set by the user.

The length of the extension lines is either set as a xed distance, or to indicate the distance the vessel will move in the selected time period.

For own vessel heading information is read from active heading sensor, and COG information is as received from the active GPS.

For other vessels COG data is included in the message received from the AIS system.

COG

Heading

Dening dangerous vessels

You can dene an invisible guard zone around your vessel. When a target comes within this distance from your vessel, the symbol will change to the “dangerous” target symbol. An alarm will be triggered if activated in the Alarm settings panel.

Speed and course indication

The extension line can be used to indicate speed and course for targets; either as absolute (true) motion in the chart or relative to your vessel.

Dierent line style is used on the extension lines to indicate motion as shown below.

Absolute motion Relative motion

AIS icon orientation

Sets the orientation of the AIS icon; either based on heading or COG information.

AIS SART

When an AIS SART (Search And Rescue beacon) is activated, it starts transmitting its position and identication data. This data is received by your AIS device.

If your AIS receiver is not compliant with AIS SART, it interprets the received AIS SART data as a signal from a standard AIS transmitter. An icon is positioned on the chart, but this icon is an AIS vessel icon. Refer icon description in the NSO-II Operator manual.

If your AIS receiver is compliant with AIS SART, the following take place when AIS SART data is received:

• An AIS SART icon is located on the chart in the position received from the AIS SART

• An alarm message is displayed

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If you have enabled the siren, the alarm message will be followed by an audible alarm.

The following section describes the options available when an AIS SART message is received by a Navico NAIS-400 transponder.

AIS SART alarm message

When data is received from an AIS SART, an alarm message is displayed on the NSO-II . This message includes the AIS SART’s unique MMSI number, its position and its distance and bearing from your vessel. You have three options:

1. Ignore the alarm

- The alarm is muted and the message closed. The alarm will not reappear

¼ Note: If you ignore the alarm, the AIS SART icon remains visible on your chart, and the AIS

SART remains in the Vessels list. If the AIS stops receiving the AIS SART message, the AIS SART remains in the Vessels list for 10 minutes after it receives the last signal.

2. Save the waypoint

- The waypoint is saved to your waypoint list. This waypoint name will be prexed with

MOB AIS SART - followed by the unique MMSI number of the SART. e.g. MOB AIS SART

- 12345 678.

3. Activate the MOB function

- The display switches to a zoomed chart panel, centered on the AIS SART position

- The NSO-II creates an active route to the AIS SART position

¼ Note: If the MOB function is already active, this will be terminated and replaced by the

new route towards the AIS SART position!

If you select the AIS SART icon on the chart you will see the AIS MOB details.

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Audio

When the NSO-II is connected to a SonicHub server you can use your unit to control audio playback from iPod, iPhone, USB mass storage device (mp3) and AM/FM radio. Before playing FM radio you must purchase a marine-grade AM/FM antenna.

When connected to a WM-2 Satellite module you can subscribe and include Sirius™ audio on your NSO-II system. Sirius™ audio and weather service covers inland US waters and coastal areas into the Atlantic and Pacic oceans, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. The Sirius™ audio products received vary depending on your selected subscription package. For more information refer to www.sirius.com.

Before you can start using your equipment, it must be installed according to the Installation manual included with the unit.

Enabling audio

You must enable audio to control audio on your NSO-II unit.

Audio media bar

When audio is enabled, the media bar will appear at the bottom of the screen on all pages. The media bar varies from one audio source to another.

Panel buttons

Media bar

You switch focus between other panels and the media bar by tapping on the selected panel.

Audio menus

When you tap the media bar, the audio panel buttons are displayed. Tapping the screen again makes these go away.

When the media bar is active you can display the full audio menu by:

• Tapping the MENU panel button

• Pressing and holding on the media

bar

Volume level

The menus dier from one audio source to another as shown in the following sections.

Setting up the SonicHub speakers

Speaker zones

Your unit has four on-board amplied channels for directly driving speakers. There are also two low level channels (stereo) for supplying signal to an external amplier, plus two mono channels for amplied subwoofer(s).

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The audio outputs are organized in 3 zones. You can adjust balance, volume and volume limit settings independently for each zone. Adjustments to the bass and treble settings will alter all zones. Refer graphics.

Zone 1 Left/Right speakers

Zone 2 Left/Right speakers

Zone 3 Amplier output, Subwoofer output

Master volume control

By default the volume for all speaker zones are adjusted when you adjust the volume on an NSO-II unit.

You can adjust each speaker zone individually from any NSO-II unit from the SonicHub Zones dialog. From this dialog you can also dene which zones shall be altered when you increase/decrease the volume from the control unit.

Operating the audio source

Selecting the audio source

You switch between available audio sources from the audio menu.

¼ Note: The Mic source selects a high voltage level input allowing you to broadcast loud

hailer messages over the audio system.

Adjusting the volume

The volume is adjusted by using the OP40 rotary knob or by tapping the volume level icon and then dragging your nger on the slide bar.

The volume can also be adjusted by using the menu, and from the master control dialog as described later in this chapter.

Muting

You toggle muting on/o by pressing the OP40 rotary knob.

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Audio playback

Playback panel buttons

• Tap Display source’s native menu

• Tap Play previous track

• Tap Play

• Tap Play next track

• Tap Display audio menu

Shue and repeat

Shue (e.g. tracks or albums) and repeat is turned on/o from the audio menu, or by tapping the icons in the media bar will switch between all repeat/shue modes and then to o. The icons will be red when the function is turned on.

Playback menu

The playback menus include an option giving access to the source’s native menu or le structure, used for selecting tracks.

The examples show iPod menus.

Using the FM/AM radio

Selecting AM/FM tuner region

Before playing FM or AM radio, you must select the appropriate AM and FM tuner regions for your location.

AM/FM panel buttons

• Tap and hold Tune in to an AM/FM radio channel

• Tap Goto previous/next station in favorite list

• Tap Display audio menu

Saving a channel to the favorite list

When the channel is tuned in, you can add the stations to your favorite list.

All favorite channels can be viewed, selected and deleted from within this list.

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Using the Sirius radio

Sirius panel buttons

• Tap and hold Tune in to a Sirius radio channel

• Tap Goto previous/next station in favorite list

• Tap Display audio menu

Channels list

The channels list displays all available Sirius channels, whether or not you have a subscription for the channel.

Favorite list

You can create a list of your favorite Sirius channels from within the channels list. You will not be able to add unsubscribed channels.

When a favorite list is available, you page through this list using the panel buttons.

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Locking channels

You can lock selected Sirius channels from being broadcasted unless an unlock code is entered.

When the function is activated, a 4 digit code must be entered before the locking is activated.

The same code must be entered before a locked channel can be released.

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FUSION-Link Support

Compatible FUSION-Link devices connected to the NMEA 2000 network can be controlled from the NSO-II.

The integration is currently limited and not supporting the following features:

• Multiple FUSION-Link device connectivity

• VHF channel and Sirius weather controls via FUSION-Link devices

• DVD controls through the NSO-II

¼ Note: You must enable audio to control audio on your NSO-II.

Refer to the Audio section in the NSO-II Operator for information about audio control from the NSO-II.

A compatible FUSION-Link device connected to the NMEA 2000 network should automatically be identied by the NSO-II. If not, enable the feature from the advanced option in the system settings menu.

¼ Note: Only one audio device is allowed - either a SonicHub or a FUSION-Link capable

device, but not both.

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Weather

GRIB weather

The NSO-II includes a GRIB data viewer. You can import GRIB les via an SD card inserted into the card reader, and overlay the information onto your charts.

The GRIB data is available for download from www.grib.us

Importing GRIB data

GRIB data must be imported into memory before it can be used. The le can be imported directly from an SD card, or from the NSO-II if you have previously copied the le to the device.

¼ Note: GRIB data that is imported from an SD will not be saved in the NSO-II. The data will

be lost when new GRIB data is imported.

Select the GRIB le on the SD card or on the device to import the data.

The GRIB weather display

Imported GRIB weather data can be displayed as an overlay on your chart panel.

Pressure contours

Wind barbs

GRIB informa-

tion window

When the GRIB weather overlay is selected, the chart menu will increase to show GRIB weather options. From this menu you can select which weather symbols you want to display, set the distance between the barbs, and you can adjust the opaqueness of the weather symbols.

From this menu you can also animate the weather forecast as described later in this chapter.

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Direction

Wind barb symbols

The rotation of the wind barbs indicate the wind direction.

Wind speed is indicated by a combination of small and large barbs at the end of the wind tail.

Zero knots / Indeterminate wind direction

Small barb = 5 knots

Large barb = 10 knots

Arrow barb = 50 knots

If a combination of 5 and 10 knot barbs are shown on a tail then these will need to be added together to give you the total wind speed. The example below shows 3 x large barb + 1 x small barb = 35 knots, and 60 knots indicated with 1 x arrow barb + 1 x large barb.

Wind speed: 35 knots Wind speed: 60 knots

Animating GRIB weather forecast

The GRIB data contains forecast information for a set number of days. It is possible to

animate the weather data and to show the predicted forecast for a specic time and date. The time scales will vary depending on the le you are using.

Once animation is selected, the Clear time control panel button is displayed at the top of the chart panel. Time and speed dials will appear on the right side of the panel.

Speed dial

Time dial

• Press the OP40 rotary knob to change between the time and speed dials

• Press the Clear time control panel button to stop the animation

Selecting time

Turn the OP40 rotary knob to select the time for which you want to display the weather data. The time increments may vary depending on the GRIB le.

The time shift is shown in the time dial and in brackets in the GRIB information window.

The time will be relative to the current time as provided by a GPS device connected to the NSO-II.

As a GRIB le ages it will be possible to see the historic data represented in minus hours until the data becomes outdated. Once the data is outdated it reverts to the time frame being relative to the earliest forecast in the le.

¼ Note: If no current time is provided via GPS the GRIB le time is only relative to the earli-

est forecast in the le. It will then not show a real time weather representation.

Animation speed

Use the OP40 rotary knob to adjust animation speed.

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SiriusXM™ weather (North America only)

When connected to a Navico Weather Module WM-2, you can subscribe and include Sirius™ audio and Sirius™ Marine Weather Service on your NSO-II system (North America only).

Sirius™ audio and weather service covers inland US waters and coastal areas into the Atlantic and Pacic oceans, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

The audio and weather products received vary depending on your selected subscription package. For more information refer to www.siriusxm.com/marineweather

Sirius™ status panel

When the WM-2 is connected to the system, you will get access to the Sirius™ status panel.

Signal strength is indicated as 1/3 (weak), 2/3 (good) or 3/3 (preferred).

The ESN shows the electronic serial number for the WM-2 module.

Weather display

The Sirius™ weather can be displayed as an overlay on your chart panel.

When weather overlay is selected, the chart menu will increase to show the available weather options.

Precipitation

color shading

SST color bar

SST color

shading

City forecast icon

Storm icons

Wind barbs

Showing detailed weather information

When you tap a shaded weather area, available information will be shown in the cursor window.

When you tap a weather icon, detailed information about the observation can be displayed by using the menu or by pressing the OP40 rotary knob.

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Weather symbology

Precipitation

Shades of color are used to show precipitation type and intensity. Darkest color indicates highest intensity.

Precipitation type Color codes

Rain From light green (light rain) - yellow - orange - to dark red (heavy

rain)

Snow Blue

Mixed Pink

Sea surface temperature (SST)

Can be shown as color shading or text.

When color coding is selected, the SST color bar will be shown on the left side of the display.

You can dene which temperature range that shall be color coded as described later in this section.

Wave indication

Colors are used to indicate forecasted wave height. Dark red indicate the highest waves, while blue are used for the lowest.

You can dene which height range shall be color coded as described later in this section.

Direction

Wind symbols

Length and rotation of the barbs indicate wind direction and speed.

Adjusting the color shading

You can dene the sea surface temperature range and wave height color coding.

The temperature above warm and below cool values will be displayed as progressively darker red and darker blue.

Waves higher than the maximum value will be indicated with progressively darker red. Waves lower than the minimum value will not be color coded.

Weather icons

Several weather icons are available to show current or predicted weather conditions. You can tap an icon to display detailed weather information.

Icon Description

City forecast

Surface observation

Tropical storm tracking; past (grey) - present (red) - future (yellow)

Hurricane (category 1-5) tracking; past (grey) - present (red) - future (yellow)

Tropical disturbance/depression tracking; past (grey) - present (red) - future (yellow)

Storm attributes

Lightning

Watch box location and warning

Marine zone location

Weather overlay transparency

The opaqueness of the weather overlay can be adjusted.

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Min transparency Max transparency

Weather reports

Marine zone

Sirius™ service includes access to weather reports for all U.S. Marine Zones, with the exception of the high seas zones..

You can setup the system to read the forecast for a selected area.

Tap the selected zone, and use the menu to conrm your selection.

Tropical statements

You can read tropical statements including information about tropical weather conditions. These statements are available for the entire Atlantic and the Eastern Pacic.

Animating Sirius™ weather graphics

The NSO-II records the weather information you have turned on, and this information can be used to animate past or future weather conditions. The amount of information available in the system depends on the amount of weather activity; the more complex it is, the less time will be available for animation.

You can animate the past or the future, depending on which weather view you have turned on:

• if the precipitation overlay was turned on, you can animate for the past and only assume weather conditions in the immediate future.

• if the colored wave height overlay was turned on, you can animate the future (the predictions).

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When activated, the time for the current graphic animation will be displayed in the lower left corner of the chart panel.

Weather alarms

You can setup the lightning or storm alarms to be within a certain range of your vessel.

You can also get an alarm as a severe weather forecast alarm issued for your chosen marine zone.

A watchbox is dened by the National Weather Service. When the alarm is turned on you will get an alarm when your vessel is inside or is entering into a watchbox.

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Video

The video function allows you to view videos or camera sources on your NSO-II screen. For information about how to connect the camera, see the separate NSO-II Installation manual.

¼ Note: The video images will not be shared via the network. You can only view the video

on the unit connected to the video source.

Video panel

The video image will be proportionally scaled to t into the video panel. Area not covered by the image will be colored black.

The graphics below show images from a thermal imaging camera.

Video menus

When you tap the video panel, the video panel buttons are displayed. Tapping the screen again makes these go away.

When the video panel buttons are active you can display the full video menu by:

• Pressing the panel button or

the OP40 MENU key

• Pressing and holding on the

video panel

Setting up the video panel

Video source

NSO-II supports two video input channels. You can select to view one channel only, or to cycle the image between available video cameras.

The cycle period can be set from 5 to 120 seconds.

Adjusting the video image

You can optimize the video display by adjusting the video image settings. The settings are adjusted individually for each video source. Default for all settings: 50%.

Mirroring the video image

Video input can be set to display a mirrored image. This setting can be helpful for rear-

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facing cameras used to back-down the vessel.

Video standard

NSO-II supports NTSC and PAL video. The two channels are set up individually. Check the local video standard or the standard of your cameras.

FLIR camera control

If a FLIR camera is available on the Ethernet network, you can display the video and control the camera from the NSO-II.

A video panel can be set up as a single panel, or as one of the panels on a multiple panel page.

Establishing connection with the FLIR video camera

When a video panel is active, the NSO-II will automatically recognize a Flir camera if this is available on the network.

¼ Note: When there is DHCP server present on the Ethernet network, FLIR camera will need

to be congured and set to have Static IP Address before the connection can be established. For instructions on how to congure your specic FLIR camera model please refer to FLIR documentation.

¼ Note: Only one FLIR camera can be connected to the Ethernet network at a time.

When you activate a video panel, the system will start searching the network for a FLIR camera.

If the connection later is lost, this will be indicated by a panel key. Tap this key to reestablish the connection.

When the connection is established the menu will change to include access to FLIR camera control.

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¼ Note: You can take over camera control from any NSO-II unit connected to the Ethernet

network.

Panning and tilting the camera

When the connection to the FLIR camera is established, pan and tilt panel buttons appear on the video panel. The left and right arrows control the camera’s pan, while the up and down arrows tilt the camera.

Press one of the arrow buttons on the panel to control the camera. The camera will move as long as you press the button.

Zooming the video image

You zoom the video image by using the OP40 IN/OUT keys. or the pinch/spread movement on the screen.

There are two dierent zoom options available, depending on selected FLIR camera source option. Refer “The FLIR camera source options” below.

Digital zoom

Only available when the camera is in Infrared mode.

In this mode the zoom is represented in levels (0, 2 and 4 times zoom). Each press on one of the OP40 IN/OUT keys will increment or decrement the zoom level.

Optical zoom

Available in daylight mode. In this mode the camera will zoom as long as you press the OP40 IN/OUT keys.

The FLIR camera source options

The FLIR camera includes both daylight and infrared video sources.

When the infrared source is selected, the following options are available:

Toggle color scheme Cycles through FLIR’s video output color scheme. Each

of these schemes maps a dierent color to a dierent temperature

Toggle polarity Inverts the color scheme.

For example, instead of: White = Hot and Black = Cold, it will become Black = Hot and White = Cold

The camera’s home position

You can set the current pan and tilt position as the camera’s home position.

You can later quickly return to this camera position.

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BEP CZone

The NSO-II system integrate with BEP’s CZone system used for controlling and monitoring a distributed power system on your vessel.

A separate manual will be provided with your CZone system. Refer to this documentation and to the NSO-II Installation manual for how to install and congure the CZone system.

BEP CZone panel

Quick access to CZone panel from Pages

When the CZone system is connected and congured, the CZone icon will be shown on the Pages overview panel (Home). This icon gives access to CZone panel, providing icons for CZone modes.

CZone modes

The CZone modes provide a one press functionality that allows multiple circuits to be controlled eciently. The modes are congured during installation of the system.

All available modes will be displayed on the CZone panel.

If there are more than 6 modes congured on screen the rest of the modes will move to the More Modes option.

Intuitive CZone modes status icon

The CZone modes provide a one press functionality that allows multiple circuits to be controlled eciently. The modes are typically congured during installation.

Up to 6 commonly used modes can be displayed on the CZone panel. If more than 6 modes are congured, the rest are accessible under More Modes... option.

Mode is active

Mode is inactive

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CZone system overview options

Enables you to monitor all on board parameters including tank levels displayed in graphical, percentage and remaining volume formats.

Shows control options and monitoring information.

Displays visual and audible alarms that can be set for high and low levels.

CZone info panel

When the CZone is installed and congured, an additional CZone dashboard will be added to the Instrument panels.

Vessel dashboard Navigation dashboard Angler dashboard CZone dashboard

See “Instrument

panels” on page 70 for

further information.

You switch between a panel’s dashboards by tapping the left and right arrow symbols or by selecting the dashboard from the menu.

Editing the CZone dashboard

You can customize CZone dashboard by changing the data for each of the gauges. Available editing options will depend on the type of gauge and which data sources are connected to your system.

CZone AC Main Control Interface (AMCI) and AC Output Interface (ACOI) support

AMCI allows you to select which mains power device will supply power to the vessel. ACOI provides on/o control and power distribution protection for AC devices on the vessel. AC controls are congurable under Control and Monitor panel.

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Alarm system

The NSO-II system will continuously check for dangerous situations and system faults while the system is running. When an alarm situation occurs, an alarm message will pop up on the screen.

If you have enabled the siren, the alarm message will be followed by an audible alarm, and the switch for external alarm will go active.

The alarm is recorded in the alarm listing so that you can see the details and take the appropriate corrective action.

Type of messages

The messages are classied according to how the reported situation will aect your vessel. The following color codes are used:

Color Importance

Red Critical

Orange Important

Yellow Standard

Blue Warning

Green Light warning

Single alarms

A single alarm is displayed with the name of the alarm as the title, and with details for the alarm.

Multiple alarms

If more than one alarm is activated simultaneously, the alarm message will display a list of up to 3 alarms. The alarms are listed in the order they occur with the alarm activated rst at the top. The remaining alarms are available in the Alarms dialog.

Acknowledging a message

The following options are available in the alarm dialog for acknowledging a message:

Option Result

OK Sets the alarm state to acknowledged, meaning that you are aware of the

alarm condition. The siren / buzzer will stop and the alarm dialog will be removed.

The alarm will however remain active in the alarm listing until the reason for the alarm has been removed.

Disable Disables the current alarm setting. The alarm will not show again unless you

turn it back on in the Alarms dialog.

There is no time-out on the alarm message or siren. They remain until you acknowledge the alarm or until the reason for the alarm is removed.

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Alarms dialog

The alarms can be setup in the Alarms dialog. This dialog also includes information about active alarms and alarm history.

The alarms are described in the chapter describing the corresponding feature e.g. all autopilot alarms are described in the Autopilot section.

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Tools page

The Tools dialog includes options and tools that are not specic to any panel. This dialog and sub-screen dialogs are always full screen.

A tools dialog will open on top of your previous page. When you close one of these dialogs the display will return to last active page.

Any listing in the tools dialogs has a page menu, giving access to available options for the selected item. The menu is displayed by tapping and holding on the screen or by pressing the OP40 MENU key..

Vessels

Status listing

List of all AIS, MARPA, and DSC vessels with available information.

Message listing

List of all messages received from other AIS vessels with time stamp.

Alarms

Active alarms

List of active alarms.

Alarm history

List of all alarms with time stamp.

Alarm settings

List of all available alarm options in the system, with current settings.

Satellites

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Status page for active satellites.

WAAS (and EGNOS) dierential position correction can be congured to On or OFF.

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Find

Search function for several chart items.

Waypoints/routes/tracks

List of waypoints, routes and tracks with details.

Tap on the waypoint, route or track you wish to edit or delete

Trip Log

Trip 1 / Trip 2

Displays voyage and engine information, with reset option for all data elds.

Today

Displays voyage and engine information for current date. All data elds will be automatically reset when the date changes.

Sun/moon

Displays sunrise, sunset, moonrise and moonset for a position based on entered date and the position’s latitude/longitude.

Tides

Displays tide information for the tide station nearest to your vessel.

Tap the arrow panel buttons to change date, or tap the date eld to access the calender function.

Available tide stations can be selected from the menu.

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Files

File management system for les, waypoints, routes, tracks and settings.

NMEA 0183 Data logging

All serial output sentences sent over the NMEA 0183 TCP connection are logged to an internal le. You can export and review this le for service and fault nding purposes.

The maximum le size is predened. If you have added several other les to the system (sonar and/or StructureMap recordings, music, pictures, pdf les), this may reduce the allowed le size for the log le.

The system logs as much data as possible within the le size limitation, then it starts overwriting the oldest data.

Exporting the log le

The log le can be exported from the Files dialog.

When you select the Log database you are prompted to select a destination folder and lename. Once accepted the log le is written to the chosen location.

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GoFreeTM wireless

With a WIFI-1 unit connected to an NSO-II you can use a wireless device to remotely control the NSO-II. The NSO-II is controlled from the wireless device by Apps downloaded from their relevant Application store.

¼ Note: In this document we have used the term wireless devices, and graphics from iPad

and App Store are used as examples. The wireless functionality is however, provided for other vendors’ tablets or smartphones, and those can be used for controlling the NSO-II when relevant Apps are available.

¼ Note: For security reasons Autopilot and CZone control are currently not supported for

control from a wireless device.

Installation and wiring for the WIFI-1 unit are described in the separate WIFI-1 Installation Guide.

Setting the NSO-II name

The name of the NSO-II can be set by the user. The entered name will be broadcasted on NMEA 2000 and IP based networks.

Choose a unique name for the NSO-II to allow you to identify each unit on the Simrad GoFree Controller & Viewer App.

NSO-IIA

Setting up the WIFI-1

1. Connect the WIFI-1 unit to the NSO-II with the Ethernet cable supplied with the WIFI-1

unit:

- The WIFI-1 access point will now be listed in the NSO-II menu

- The Network name and Network key are the same as found on the sticker on the

WIFI-1 unit

2. Change the Network name and Network key if required.

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Setting up multiple WIFI-1 units

On large or metal hulled vessels it may be necessary to connect multiple WIFI-1 access points to extend the range.

Up to 2 WIFI-1 units can be connected to one NSO-II, but only the WIFI-1 unit dened as primary access point can be used for connecting the wireless device to the NSO-II.

1. Open the access points’ dialog as shown above

2. Activate the line for the connected WIFI-1 unit, and re-dene this to be a secondary ac-

cess point

3. Connect and dene the additional WIFI-1 unit as described in “Setting up the WIFI-1” on

page 95.

- The latest connected WIFI-1 unit will now be the primary access point, and only this

can be used for connecting the wireless device to the NSO-II.

Selecting communication channel

The WIFI-1 unit will automatically select the channel used for communication with the wireless devices.

You might need to change the channel if other transmitting devices cause conicts (multiple networks, wireless phones etc), or if you are using the equipment in areas with restricted channel selection.

The channels can be manually changed from the drop down list.

¼ Note: Only technically skilled persons should set up multiple WIFI-1 units or change the

communication channel!

Connecting the wireless device to the WIFI-1

Set up the wireless device’s network to be the WIFI-1 dened as primary access point.

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- The Network name is found in the NSO-II menu. Refer to “Setting up the WIFI-1” on

page 95.

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Enable/disable wireless control of NSO-II

1. Download the Simrad GoFree Controller & Viewer App from the application store to the

wireless device.

2. Start the App, and tap the NSO-II icon in the GoFree Controller page to request remote

control of the NSO-II.

The rst time you request control from the wireless device, the NSO-II will prompt you to conrm remote control from this device.

You have the following options:

Yes Allows control from the wireless device as long as the device is

connected to the WIFI-1 network.

You will have to request remote control again if the wireless device later re-connects to the WIFI-1 network.

No Allows no control from the wireless device. The NSO-II display can be

viewed on the wireless device, but no operation is allowed.

Always Allows control of the NSO-II from this wireless device until you choose to

disable the control. See description later in this section.

When control is conrmed, the connection is immediately established.

All wireless devices that are allowed to control the NSO-II are listed in the Wi device list.

Disabling wireless control

You disable wireless control from a remote device as follows:

1. In the device list, select the wireless device you want to disable

2. Uncheck the Always allow option

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3. Press and hold on the selected line in the list to show the menu

4. Select Disconnect

5. On the wireless device, select the view only option

You can now view the NSO-II display on the wireless devise, but no operation is allowed.

Wireless control of the NSO-II is re-established by re-starting the App and conrming remote control.

¼ Note: If control is rejected the wireless device will mirror the NSO-II screen, but no opera-

tion is allowed from the remote device.

All connected wireless devices will be listed in the NSO-II dialog, and you can change the access level for all connected devices.

Operating the NSO-II with a wireless device

When remote control is accepted, the NSO-II page will be mirrored to the wireless device.

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The NSO-II image includes softkeys:

PAGES, MENU, ZOOM IN, ZOOM OUT, POWER, ENTER, CANCEL, GO TO, MARK, MOB.

Tapping these keys works as operating the similar hard keys on the OP40 Remote Control.

Lets you select which NSO-II to control if more than one is connected to the active WIFI-1 unit

Returns to the GoFree Controller page.

Using the WIFI-1 for data bridging

The WIFI-1 can be used for bridging data from the NSO-II to other applications running on a wireless remote device.

The graphics below is an example only, showing setup for the iNavX application run on an iPhone.

IP address and port information is found in the NSO-II as shown below.

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Customizing your system

Page overview

Pages group overview

The Pages group overview is pre-congured with 6 page groups and with 3 shortcut icons to Autopilot panel, to a combined Chart/Echosounder panel, and to the StructureScan™ panel.

The pre-congured shortcuts can be removed or modied by the user.

Page group panels

Each of the 6 page group panels are pre-congured with a combination of pages:

The main page in each group is a full size panel. All pre-congured pages, except the main page for the page group, can be modied by the user.

Each page group can have up to 9 pages, organized as single panels or as a combination of panels. You can also dene your own pages.

Create favorite pages

You can edit a pre-congured page or dene your own pages from the page editor.

1. Tap and hold on an empty page icon or a pre-congured page icon. You can also select

the icon with the OP40 rotary knob and then pressing the OP40 MENU key.

• Tap the Add new page... to display the page editor panel

2. Select the panel icon one by one to set up your custom pages

3. Save the page layout by tapping the Save button.

You can have several panels on each page.

The panels are arranged as illustrated below.

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Simrad NSO-II Operator's Manual

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Introduction

OP40 Remote Control of NSO-II

Touch terminology and icons

NSO-II screen layout

Basic operation

Using the touchscreen

Pages and panels

Menus

Dialog boxes

Positioning a Man Over Board mark

Charts

Chart panel

Chart scale

Panning the chart

Vessel symbol

Using the cursor on the chart panel

Positioning the chart on the panel

Chart settings panel

Chart overlay

Selecting chart type

Insight and CMAP chart options

Navionics chart options

Waypoints, routes & tracks

Waypoints

Routes

Tracks

Waypoints, route and tracks panels

Navigating with the NSO-II

Goto menu

Navigating on the chart

Navigating with the autopilot

Navigation settings panel

Navigation panels

Autopilot

Safe operation with the autopilot

Activating the autopilot

Autopilot panel

Selecting autopilot modes

Autopilot mode overview

Controlling steering performance in automatic modes

Using the autopilot in standby mode

Power steering (NFU)

Follow-up steering (FU)

AUTO mode (auto compass)

NoDrift mode

Navigating with the NSO-II

Sailing with the autopilot

Wind steering and navigation

Using the NSO-II in an AP24/AP28 system

Using the autopilot in an EVC system

Autopilot settings panel

Radar

Radar panel

Radar operational modes

Using the cursor on the radar panel

Optimizing the radar image

Positioning the radar center

Measuring range and bearing to a target

Setting a guard zone around your vessel

Radar options

MARPA targets

Radar overlay

Radar settings panel

Echosounder

Setting up the echosounder panel

Zooming

Adjusting color and gain settings

Using the cursor on the echosounder panel

Placing a mark on an echosounder image

Measuring distance

Pausing the echosounder

Recording echosounder data

Echo options

StructureScan™ overlay

Echosounder settings panel

StructureScan™