Garmin 520 Owner's Manual

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Your Rino 520/530 unit provides many features to 

enhance your radio experience, such as transmitting 

your location or any location and receiving contact 

information. This section reviews some of the advanced 

radio features. Refer to the “Features” section for 

information on all of the features of the Rino 520/530.

The Rino 520/530’s most unique feature is being able to 

send its location to another Rino, which is called Peer-to-

Peer positioning. With peer-to-peer positioning enabled 

(see the “Setup Radio” section) and a GPS position, 

whenever you press and release either the Call button or 

the Talk button, the Rino 520/530 automatically sends out 

its location. This information is available to all other Rino 

users that are monitoring the same channel and squelch 

code. This feature allows you to track the movement 

of other Rino users and even navigate to their location. 

Locations may only be sent once every 30 seconds due 

to FCC restrictions. Your Rino 520/530 can respond to 

polling requests from other units more frequently. 

1.  Enable 

Send Location (see “Setup Radio”).

2.  Press and release either the 

Talk or Call button. 

A bright flag on the Status Bar indicates the unit 

is ready to transmit its position. A dimmed flag is 

waiting for the 30 second delay to expire.

The first time that a signal is received from another Rino 

user, a New Contact page is displayed. From the New 

Contact page you can show their location on your Map, 

Go To their location, or select OK to add it to the Contact 

List. Press the Page/Quit button to disregard the contact.   

New  

Contact Page

Name and 

Symbol

Contact Information 

Field