Garmin 128 Owner's Manual

Also see for GPS 126: Specifications

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Getting Started TourNow that you are familiar with the primary pages,it’s time to take a tour. This is a live tour and is to beconducted with your unit installed and with the boat inthe water. The tour will take you through the receiver’sbasic features and functions as you move about on thewater and assumes that the GPS 126/128 is turned onand initialized, (see page 52 for initialization proce-dure) and that you have not changed any of the factorysettings (units of measure, selectable fields, etc.). Ifthese settings have been changed, the pictures anddescriptions in this manual may not match what yousee on your screen.Navigation SimulatorIf you are not able to take the Getting Started Tourwith your boat in the water, you may use the built-innavigation simulator to practice using the GPS126/128. To use the simulator, see page 51.Marking a PositionTo begin the tour, let’s take the position you haveacquired (either by just initializing the unit or by hav-ing turned the unit on) and mark it as a waypoint forfuture reference.1. Press the M key to capture and hold your position.To mark a position, you must have obtained a2D or 3D fix, or have the receiver in simulatormode. If you try to mark a position without aposition fix, you will be alerted with a ‘No GPSPosition’ message.The mark position page will appear, showing thecaptured position and a default 3-digit waypoint name.Let’s change the default name to something a little moremeaningful, like ‘DOCK’.2. Press the down arrow once to move the field highlightfrom the ‘SAVE?’ field to the name field.Power On &Marking aPositionGETTINGSTARTED8The Welcome Page willbe shown while the unitconducts a self test.Press the UP arrow tomove forward through thealphabet or numbers andthe DOWN arrow tomove backward.!#