[time-nuts] DATUM GPS Thingies...

[John Miles]

That's good to know.  Are there any manuals/schematics or other documents
available for these?

-- john, KE5FX

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> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
> Behalf Of Burt I. Weiner
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:11 AM
> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] DATUM GPS Thingies...
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>
> There is a master reset in the units that should be done when moving
> the units any considerable distance.  It will eventually find itself
> but takes considerably longer if you don't do the reset.  Without
> doing that it's trying to go by it's last collected almanac.  On my
> units it's a matter of turning the unit off off, flipping a dip
> switch, turning it on and waiting for a message to tell you to turn
> the power off and put the switch back.  After that it will start
> collecting birds within a very few minutes and probably have them all
> within about 15 minutes.
>
> Burt, K6OQK
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