Garmin GPSMAP 5215 Owner's Manual

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GPSMAP 5000 Series Owner’s Manual 5Digital Selective CallingdSCFor information on placing distress calls from your radio, see your Garmin VHF Radio Owner’sManual. For information on activating navigation to a man-overboard location, see page 25.Position TrackingWhen you connect your Garmin chartplotter to a VHF radio using NMEA 0183, you can trackvessels that send position reports. This feature is also available with NMEA 2000, provided that thevessel sends the correct PGN data (PGN 129808; DSC Call Information).Every position report call received is logged in the DSC list (page 34).To view a list of position reports:1. From the Home screen, touch Information > DSC List.2. Select an item from the list, and then select Review for the following options:Select Call with Radio to set up an individual routine call (page 58) with the radio to call thevessel that sent the position report. This option is only available if you are using a GarminNMEA 2000-compatible VHF radio.Select Edit to edit the vessel name and add a comment. If your radio is tracking the positionof the vessel, touch Trail to show or hide the trail line for the vessel, and touch Trail Line tochange the line color.Select Clear Report to delete the call report.Select Navigate To to Go To or Route To the location sent with the position report (page 23).Select Create Waypoint to set a waypoint at the location sent with the position report.Select Next Page or Previous Page to toggle between details of the position report and aNavigation chart marking the location.Configuring Vessel Trails on the Navigation ChartIf you have your chartplotter configured to show trails, the Navigation chart displays a black dotfor each reported position, a black line indicating the path of the vessel, and a Blue Flag symbolindicating the last reported position.Vessel trailLast-reportedvessel positionPosition-reportlocationVessel TrailTo set the duration of displayed trail points:1. From a chart screen, touch Menu > Other Vessels > DSC > DSC Trails.2. Select the number of hours to show tracked vessels on the Navigation chart. For example, if youselect 4 Hours, all trail points (less than four hours old) for tracked vessels are displayed.••••••