Lowrance electronic HDS 8 User Manual

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Power on the unit and display the Chart page. The current position icon represents 

your current position on screen. The icon always points to your heading. 

If the current position icon displays a question mark then the unit has not 

achieved a satellite lock and is not tracking your current position. When 

sufficient satellites are received to determine a position, the icon's movement will 

correspond with your movement.

Use the Chart menu to adjust settings and enter commands. 

From this menu you have access to routes, waypoints, info, 

chart options and screen settings. 
To open the Chart menu, go to the Chart page and press the 

MenU key. The following features are listed in the order they 

appear on the Chart menu, top to bottom:

•   New  Waypoint: Creates a new waypoint.
•   New  Route:  Creates a new route.
•   Go to Cursor: Navigates to the cursor position on the Chart page.
•   Find:  Opens the Find menu. From the Find menu you can search for 

items by select categories.

•   Info:  Shows a list of items close to the cursor.
•   Measure:  Used to measure the distance between current position 

and another point on the Chart page or between two different points.

•   Overlay:  Toggles weather and radar overlay on or off (Radar and 

Weather module sold separately)

•   Chart  options:  Opens the Chart options submenu which contains 

the Map Orientation, Look Ahead, Chart categories and Imagery fea-

tures. 

Controls chart features and options including Map 

Orientation, Chart Detail, Look Ahead, Chart 

categories and Imagery.