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FIELD GUIDE Monitoring Tigers, Co-Predators, Prey and their Habitats

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Appendix-VI : Initialization Procedure for GPS Units<br />

1) Step 1: Press red button to switch on the GPS unit<br />

2) Leave the unit on in view of the open sky for 15-20 minutes when first switched<br />

on after several days.<br />

3) Go to main menu by pressing Page button or Menu button depending on the GPS<br />

unit.<br />

4) Select Setup from the Sub menu<br />

5) Select Navigation from the Setup menu<br />

6) Highlight position/location menu by pressing enter<br />

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Use arrow keys to scroll through the options <strong>and</strong> select hddd MM’SS.S”<br />

8) Now Highlight Map Datum <strong>and</strong> select WGS 84 by pressing enter <strong>and</strong> scrolling<br />

through by the arrow keys.<br />

9) Highlight units <strong>and</strong> select metric units (in the same way as done above).<br />

10) Highlight Heading <strong>and</strong> select True orAuto.<br />

11) Quit the Navigation Menu<br />

12) Select system setup <strong>and</strong> set date, time etc. (the Indian time is +5:30 hrs offset<br />

from GMT). In offset feed in +5:30 to get correct local time displayed by the GPS<br />

unit instead of the GMT time.<br />

13) Report the GPS coordinates in degrees, minutes <strong>and</strong> seconds in decimals.

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