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GPS for Mariners: GPS Navigation Skills for Boaters, from Basic to Advanced
  The manual you wish had come with your GPS receiver!
GPS for Mariners summarizes essential global positioning system concepts, explains the buttons, screens, and menus of your GPS receiver, and answers all your questions. Filled with helpful illustrations and hands-on examples, this complete and practical guide shows you how to:
- Become an informed GPS buyer and user.
- Connect GPS to your computer, autopilot, and radar.
- Navigate with GPS using waypoints and routes.
- Use an electronic chartplotter or navigation software to plan and monitor your course.
- Utilize the many functions in your GPS to safely and enjoyably reach your destination whether under sail or power.
- Enhance your receivers performance with WAAS, DGPS, and proper antenna placement.
- Master advanced techniques.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments | How to Navigate This Book.
PART 1. USING YOUR GPS RECEIVER
History and Perspective | How GPS Works: The Native Language of Navigation | Your GPS Receiver: Using Your GPS Receiver; Start-Up—Simulation and Initialization; Buttons, Screens, and Menus; Data Entry and Options Selection | Using GPS to Navigate: GPS and Electronic Navigation; GPS Receiver Functions; Other GPS Functions | GPS Receiver Selection and Cost Considerations: The Handheld | The Chartplotter | Selecting a GPS Receiver.
PART 2. ADVANCED GPS TECHNIQUES
Glossary | Resources | Index.
About the Author:
Robert J. Sweet is a former radar and communications system engineer and executive manager of a corporate business unit that helped develop GPS for the U.S. Air Force. Now a business advisor to high-tech companies, he is also a navigation instructor and an avid boater with more than thirty years experience on the water.
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PRODUCT DETAILS:- Publisher: International Marine
- Author: Robert J. Sweet
- Binding: Paperback
- Pages: 176 — 85 b&w illustrations
- ISBN: 0071410759
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GPS for Mariners: GPS Navigation Skills for Boaters, from Basic to Advanced |
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