Tips for successfully using your GPS
Before
every new trip
- Take spare batteries
- Clear the track log,
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Set track record method to "Auto
- Set your map datum or it will default to WGS84,
- Set GPS North to "Magnetic North".
*Remember to create a waypoint at your “start” location.
During the trip
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Check battery power off and on
- Create waypoints along your route
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Verity your position on a map if you have one
After each trip
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Stop Navigating.
- Reset the Trip Computer
- Clear the Track Log unless you want to save it as a route.
- Clear all unneeded waypoints.
Before downloading them to the desktop PC
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Set the GPS datum to WGS84
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Delete unnecessary routes.
- Disable NMEA output when you want to download waypoints or
tracks from
your GPS receiver to the mapping software on your desktop
computer.
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