Lowrance 3500c User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Section 1: Read Me First!

  1
• Capabilities and Specifications: GlobalMap 3500C

  2
• How Lowrance GPS Works

  4
• Introduction to GPS and WAAS

  6
• How to use this manual: typographical conventions

  8
• Section 2: Installation & Accessories

  11
• Preparations

  11
• GPS Antenna/Receiver Module

  11
• Power Connections

  12
• NMEA 0183 Cable Connections

  15
• NMEA Wiring

  16
• Mounting the Unit: Bracket, In-Dash or Portable

  16
• MMC or SD Card Memory Card Installation

  20
• Other Accessories

  21
• Face Cover

  21
• Section 3: Basic GPS Operations

  23
• Keyboard

  23
• Power/lights on and off

  24
• Main Menu

  24
• Pages

  26
• Satellite Status Page

  26
• Navigation Page

  28
• Map Page

  30
• Background map vs. MapCreate map content

  31
• Resize Window command

  33
• Basic GPS Quick Reference

  36
• Find Your Current Position

  37
• Moving Around the Map: Zoom & Cursor Arrow Keys

  37
• Selecting Any Map Item With the Cursor

  38
• Searching

  38
• Set a Waypoint

  40
• To create and save a Waypoint:

  40
• Navigate to a Waypoint

  42
• Set Man Overboard (MOB) Waypoint

  43
• Navigate Back to MOB Waypoint

  43
• Navigate to Cursor Position on Map

  44
• Navigate to a Point of Interest

  45
• Creating and Saving a Trail

  46
• Displaying a Saved Trail

  48
• Navigating Trails

  48
• Visual Trailing

  49
• Navigate a Trail (forward)

  49
• Navigate a Back Trail (backtrack, or reverse)

  51
• Transfer Custom Maps and GPS Data Files

  52
• Custom Maps:

  52
• GPS Data files:

  52
• Cancel Navigation

  54
• Section 4: Advanced GPS Operations

  55
• Find Distance From Current Position to Another Location

  55
• Find Distance From Point to Point

  55
• Icons

  56
• Create Icon on Map

  56
• Create Icon at Current Position

  56
• Delete an Icon

  56
• Navigate to an Icon

  57
• Routes

  57
• Create and Save a Route

  58
• Delete a Route

  61
• Edit a Route Name

  61
• Edit Route Waypoints

  61
• Navigate a Route

  62
• Navigate a Route in Reverse

  62
• Trails

  63
• Delete a Trail

  63
• Edit a Trail Name

  64
• Edit a Trail Color

  64
• Edit a Trail Pattern

  64
• Utilities

  65
• Alarm Clock

  65
• Sun/Moon Rise & Set Calculator

  65
• Trip Calculator

  65
• Trip Down Timer

  65
• Trip Up Timer

  65
• Waypoints

  65
• Delete a Waypoint

  65
• Edit a Waypoint

  66
• Selecting a Waypoint

  66
• Set a Waypoint by Average Position

  66
• Set a Waypoint by Projecting a Position

  67
• Section 5: System & GPS Setup Options

  69
• Alarms

  69
• Auto Satellite Search

  70
• Check MMC Files and Storage Space

  70
• Communications Port Configuration

  71
• Configure NMEA

  71
• Coordinate System Selection

  72
• To setup Loran TD:

  73
• Map Fix

  73
• To configure a map fix:

  74
• Customize Page Displays

  75
• GPS Simulator

  76
• To get to the GPS Simulator:

  76
• Simulating Trail or Route Navigation

  77
• Initialize GPS

  77
• Map Auto Zoom

  78
• Map Data

  78
• Show Map Data

  78
• Pop-up Map Information

  79
• Map Boundaries

  79
• Fill Water With White

  79
• Map Overlays (Range Rings; Lat/Long Grid)

  79
• Map Datum Selection

  80
• Map Detail Category Selection

  80
• Map Orientation

  81
• Navionics Charts

  82
• To display a Navionics chart:

  83
• Port Information

  83
• To view Port Services information:

  83
• Tidal Current Information

  85
• To view Tidal Current information:

  85
• Tide Information

  87
• To view tide information:

  87
• Overlay Data

  88
• Pop-up Help

  91
• Reset Options

  92
• Screen Contrast and Brightness

  92
• Set Language

  93
• Set Local Time

  94
• Show WAAS Alarm

  94
• Software Version Information

  95
• Sounds and Alarm Sound Styles

  96
• Track Smoothing

  96
• Trail Options

  97
• Delete All Trails

  97
• Update Trail Option

  97
• Delete Trail

  99
• New Trail

  99
• Trail Visible/Invisible and Other Trail Options

  99
• Transparency

  99
• Units of Measure

  100
• Section 6: Searching

  101
• Find Addresses

  101
• Find Any Item Selected by Map Cursor

  104
• Find Interstate Highway Exits

  105
• Find Map Places or Points of Interest (POI)

  107
• Find Streets or Intersections

  109
• Find a Street

  109
• Find an Intersection

  111
• Find Waypoints

  113
• Section 7: Supplemental Material

  117
• FCC Compliance

  121