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DATA RECORDING SOFTWARE FOR PC

(FE-700 Optional Kit)
This application software is used for collecting data of date, time, depth, draft, latitude,
longitude, speed and course from the Navigational Echo Sounder FE-700.
The interconnection between the FE-700 and PC is as follows.

FE-700
PC*
DISTRIBUTION COM
TB1
DISPLAY BOX FE-702 < <
Cable *
UNIT EIA232-TD 4 <2< RXD
FE-701 EIA232-RD 5 <3< TXD
<5< GND
GND 6 < <

Connect to COM port.

(Either port will do)

*: Local supply
Figure 1 Interconnection between FE-700 and PC

1. INSTALLATION

1.1 Installing the program

System Requirements
The DATA RECORDING SOFTWARE FOR PC runs under Windows 2000/XP/Vista, and
also 128 MB and more of RAM are recommended.

Procedure
1. Insert the program floppy disk supplied with the DATA RECORDING SOFTWARE FOR
PC kit into your floppy disk drive.
2. Double-click the floppy disk drive icon to display files in the floppy disk.
3. Double-click the Setup.exe icon. The installation program starts and guides you through
the installation process.
4. Follow the instructions displayed on the screen. DATA RECORDING SOFTWARE FOR
PC will be installed C:¥Users¥Public¥FURUNO¥FE700 on default.
5. Keep your original floppy disk in a safe place.

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1.2 Setting up the program
1. Click the START button on the Windows to open the Start menu.
2. Move the mouse pointer on the PROGRAM option to open the Program menu.
3. Move the mouse pointer on the Fe700 option. The application menu opens.
4. Move the mouse pointer on the application program icon Fe700 and click it. The DATA
RECORDING SOFTWARE FOR PC will start up. The following screen appears.

X.X ( /mm/dd)

Version information display (displayed three seconds)

Figure 2 Start-up Display

1.3 Setting the serial port

1. Select Setting-Serial port from the menu bar.

2. Select the port (COM 1 to COM 9) which has been connected to the PC.
3. Press OK button.

2. OPERATION PROCEDURES

Note: If you open the system menu 1, 2 or 3 of the FE-700 during downloading,
“Communication error!” will appear. Press the OK button and repeat from beginning.

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2.1 Downloading data
To download real time data (one second intervals data) from the FE-700, press the Start
button on the toolbar, or select Download - Start from the menu bar. Also, pressing F9
key on your keyboard downloads real time data. The data is downloaded at one second
intervals and displayed in log (Log mode) or graph (Graph mode) form.

Figure 3 Log Mode (text screen)

Line (green)

Figure 4 Graph Mode (graphic screen)

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To change the mode, press the or button on the screen or select Mode –
Log Data / Graph from the menu bar. Also, pressing F7 key or F8 key on your keyboard
changes the mode to log mode or graph mode, respectively.

To inscribe line (s) on the graphic screen, click the Mark button on the toolbar, or select
Option-Mark from the menu bar (or F1 key) at the moment you want to pay attention. M
mark is displayed on the text screen.

To stop downloading at any time, press the Stop button on the toolbar or select
Download - Stop from the menu bar. Also, pressing F10 key on your keyboard stops
downloading.

2.2 Downloading RAM data in the FE-700

To download one hour of data (one second intervals data) or 24 hours of data (five seconds
intervals data) in the RAM of the FE-700 (accumulated at the Echo Sounder FE-700), select
Download - Loading Option - 1h Data or 24h Data. The Download dialog box appears,
showing "Now downloading" and indicating data volume. You can cancel downloading at
any time by selecting Cancel.

Figure 5 Download dialog box

When downloading is completed, "Download Completed" is shown. Click the OK button.

The downloaded data is saved at a file named after date of the moment you just start
downloading. For example, one hour data file is named as “20000717_1h.dat”. (This file has
created at July 17, 2000.) When you open the file from the FILE menu, you can observe the
data in the log mode.

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2.3 Setting option items
The Option menu provides various settings for downloading real time data or depicting
graphics.

To open the File dialog box, select Option - Option on the menu bar. Click the File tab if it
is not already selected. The File dialog box appears.

Figure 6 File tab on the Option dialog box

File Saving option

Create new files at 00:00:
New files will be automatically created every day at 00:00. (Initial file is
created when the Start button is pressed.) Files will be named as
“yyyymmdd” (year+month+day).
Create a new file at specific time period (1h - 24h):
A new file is created and data is saved at a period of specified time (hour).
Set hour(s) between 1 and 24 hours at 1-hour period. If you set one hour,
for example only the recent one hour data is saved and old data is
overwritten. The file is named as “userfile.dat”.
Not saving:
Data received from the FE-700 is displayed on the screen, but not saved to
the hard disk of the PC.

Time Interval option

Select time interval to extract received data. Extracted data is displayed on
the text screen or graphic screen.

Auto Printing option

Log: Printing is automatically performed every 60 lines of text data.
Graphic: Printing is automatically performed every graphic page.
Off: No automatic printing.

To change a setting, press appropriate radio buttons or press up/down arrow button. After
setting as desired, press the OK button. The dialog box closes.

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To open the Graphic dialog box, select Option - Option on the menu bar and click the
Graphic tab if it is not already selected. The Graphic dialog box appears.

Figure 7 Graphic tab on the Option dialog box

Scale option: Select an appropriate depth scale for graphics, between 5 m to 800 m.

Pixels option: Select appropriate number of pixels to display per one received data from
the dropdown list to depict the contour of the seabed. The choices are 1, 2,
5 and 10 pixels.

Mode option: Select the drawing method for graphics among Solid, Line (Wide) and Line
(Narrow).

Line Color option: Select seabed color for graphics among gray, red, yellow and black.

Back Color option: Select background color for graphics, between black and white.

Set Depth option: Select Off to display all depth data. Select On to display depth data
which is shallower than depth setting. For On, set the depth you wish to
display. A red line (blue when “Line Color” is set for “Red”) appears at set
depth position.

To change a setting, press appropriate radio buttons or press down-arrow button. After
setting as desired completed, press the OK button. The dialog box closes.

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2.4 Opening a file
There are two methods to open a file: File option and Time Selection option.

To open a file and display it on the text screen, select the File - Open from the menu bar (or
Ctrl +O) or click File Open button .
The normal Windows Open File dialog box appears. Select an appropriate file and click the
Open button and the Select Data dialog box appears. The Select Data dialog box lets you
specify which data to read in. After choosing data, click the OK button. The data is displayed
in the log or graph mode.

Read in all data.

Read in data from a specific
date.

Read in data from a specific

time frame.

Figure 8 Select Data dialog box

Note: No data is denoted with a black double line. The color is light-blue when there is no
data for more than one day.

To read data from specified start date/time to end date/time and display it on the text or
graphic screen, select File - Time Selection from the menu bar. The Time Selection dialog
box appears. Enter start date/time and end date/time, then click the OK button. You can
display the time selection data on the text screen or graphic screen. (In this method, the
1h-data file (xxxxxxx-1h.dat), 24h-data file (xxxxxxx-24h.dat) and userfile.dat can not be
opened.)

You can set the from/to period for maximum 11 hours 59 minutes.
Example: From Year 2000/Month 7/Day 5/Hour 13/Minutes 1
To Year 2000/Month 7/Day 6/Hour 1/Minutes 0

Figure 9 Time Selection dialog box

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2.5 Saving a file
Data can be saved with any name in Excel format. Select File - Save as CSV-file from the
menu bar or click the Save as CSV-file button . The normal Windows Save as dialog box
appears. Type file name, select the location to save and click the OK button.

2.6 Printing a file

You may print out data. Select File - Print from the menu bar and then click one of the
following depending on your objective. The normal Windows Print dialog box appears. Click
the OK button to print out the data.
Log Data: Print log mode data. This can also be done by clicking Print Log Data button .
Graph (Hardcopy): Print graph mode data. This can also be done by clicking Print Graph
Hardcopy button .
Graph (All Data): Compress all graph data into one page and print. This can also be done
by clicking Print Graph All Data button .

2.7 Displaying version information

Select About – Program Version from the menu bar to show the version information, see
Figure 2 in section 1.2. To close the display, click the OK button.

2.8 Exiting the program

Select File – Program Exit from the menu bar. The program closes and return to the
Windows screen.

2.9 Error Messages

Below is a list of error messages shown on the screen.
Message Meaning Remedy
Initializing error!: COM Failed initialization of Match the “serial port”
COM port. For example, setting (section 1.3) with
other application uses the COM port connection
COM port. of the PC.
Communication error! Failed communication Confirm the connection
with FE-700. between FE-700 and
COM port of PC.
Can not open! Could not read or save No data
data.
Not enough memory to There was not enough Delete unnecessary files.
save! space on the hard disk on
the PC.
Invalid data! Specified time was wrong. Try to specify date/time
again. (less than 12
hours).
Not found the data! There was no data in the Try to specify date/time
file at specified time. again.
A : JUL. 2000
Pub. No. OME-23661-H H : DEC. 4, 2007
(YOSH) F E - 7 0 0 D ATA R E C . S O F T