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XM WX Satellite W eather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio supplement[...]
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© 2010 Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided herein, no part of this manual may be reproduced, copied, transmitted, disseminated, downloaded or stored in any storage medium, for any purpose without the express prior written consent of Garmin. Garmin hereby grants permission to download a single copy of t[...]
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XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement i Introduction Introduction W ARNING See the Important Safety and Pr oduct Information guide in the product box for product warnings and other important information. The weather information provided through this product is subject to service interruptions and may contain errors, in[...]
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ii XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement Introduction T able of Contents Introduction ............................................... i Contact Garmin ................................................. i XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio .......................................... 1 XM WX Satellite Weather .....[...]
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XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement 1 XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Using XM WX Satellite W eather and Audio T o use XM WX Satellite W eather on your chartplotter, you must connect a compatible Garmin XM antenna and activate an XM WX weather subscription. T o use XM Radio, you must connect a compatible G[...]
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2 XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Changing from One Weather Chart to a Different W eather Chart 1. From the Home screen, select . 2. Select a weather chart. 3. Select > . 4. Select a diffe[...]
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XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement 3 XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Weather W arnings and Weather Bulletins When a marine weather warning is issued, shading ➊ indicates the area to which the warning applies. T o view information about the warning, select the shaded area. The cyan lines ➋ on the chart[...]
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4 XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Viewing a Coastal Forecast or an Offshore Forecast 1. From the Home screen, select > . 2. Pan the map to an offshore location, and select . 3. C[...]
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XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement 5 XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Weather Symbols Symbol Weather Symbol Weather Fair (sunny , hot, clear) Rain (drizzle, sleet, showers) Partly Cloudy Cloudy Thunderstorms Snow (snow showers, urries, blizzard, blowing snow , sleet, freezing rain, freezing drizzle) Fog[...]
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6 XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio W ave Height, Wave Period, and W ave Direction W ave heights for an area appear as variations in color . Different colors indicate dif ferent wave heights ➊ , as shown in the legend ➋ on the left of the screen. The wave period indica[...]
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XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement 7 XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Viewing Fishing Information The shing screen shows present water temperature, present surface pressure conditions, and shing forecasts. From the Home screen, select > . Surface Pressu[...]
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8 XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Visibility Information V isibility is the forecast maximum horizontal distance that can be seen at the surface, as shown in the legend ➊ on the left of the screen. V ariations in the visibility shading ➋ show the forecast change in s[...]
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XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement 9 XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Viewing Local W eather Information Forecast information appears when an area near a buoy is selected. 1. From the Home screen, select > . 2. Complete an action: • Select a location on [...]
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10 XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Showing NEXRAD Precipitation Data on a Chart NEXRAD shows very light rain and snow up to strong thunderstorms in varying shades and colors. Before you can show NEXRAD information on a chart, you must turn on the weather overlay ( page 9[...]
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XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement 1 1 XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Weather Alarms Setting Weather Alarms Y ou can set an alarm to sound when certain weather conditions occur . 1. From the Home screen, select > > . 2. Complete one[...]
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12 XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio XM Presets The XM presets list is a customizable channel category . Y ou can save your favorite channels to the presets list. Saving an XM Channel to the Presets List 1. From the Home screen, select > ?[...]
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XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement 13 XM WX Satellite Weather and XM Satellite Radio Displaying the XM Radio Data Bar on the Combination Screen Y ou can display the XM Radio data bar along the bottom of the Combinations screen on a chartplotter . 1. From the Home screen, select . 2. [...]
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14 XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement Appendix Appendix Weather Data W arranty THE WEA THER DA T A SOFTW ARE PRODUCT IS PROVIDED “AS IS.” ALL OTHER W ARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY W ARRANTY OF MERCHANT ABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A P AR TICULAR PURPOSE OR OF NON-INFRINGEMENT ARE HEREBY EXCLUDED. USER SAF[...]
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XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement 15 Appendix Intelligence Agency . The user ’ s sole and exclusive remedy is to stop using the DAFIF product. This product was developed using DAFIF , a product of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency . Software License Agreement BY USING THE CHAR TPLOTTER, YOU AGREE T O BE BOU[...]
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16 XM WX Satellite Weather ® and XM ® Satellite Radio Supplement Index Index Index A alarms ash ood 10 ood 10 marine 10 severe storm 10 tornado 10 animated NEXRAD loop 1 B buoy reports 8 C channel guide 1 1 cloud cover 1 county warnings 3 F sh location 6 forecasts 3 city 4 future 3 marine 4 offshore 4 past 3 present 3 weather 3 H hurr[...]
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