GPS Plus Collar Manager - Vectronic Aerospace GmbH

Doc. No.: GPS Plus Collar Manager
Date: 7.3.12
VECTRONIC Aerospace
The collar has several user configurable features: Mortality and hibernation sensor, activity
sensor, collar UTC correction, VHF beacon sound pattern, RF transmitter window, and
communication parameter. In the Collar Configuration menu, you can read the current
configuration and change it. This will only work with registered collars. After changing
configurations, we advise to save a Collar Information file with Save Collar Information (see
4.4.7). It summarises all current settings of the collar and is a valuable information while the
collar is on the animal or if you want to communicate with VECTRONIC about problems
with a collar’s performance.
You can refresh the current settings reading from the collar at any time by clicking the read
button and write new settings with the write button. Only the features available with your
collar will be enabled. The others will be disabled and are thus not changeable.
4.4.3.1 Time – UTC correction
For technical reasons, the collars will always run on UTC (Universal Time Code) which is
also used by the GPS satellite system. You can enable the collar to calculate schedules with
UTC Correction (Figure 75). In this case you can program the schedules in LMT (Local Mean
Time) and the collar will correct the times according to the user-defined UTC correction. If
you do not enable this option, UTC will be used.
Figure 75: Configuration of UTC Correction
4.4.3.2 GPS Tracking Time
For each scheduled GPS fix, the GPS device of the collar will take several positions in a
predefined time and store the most precise of these positions. To increase the accuracy of a
position (and thus decrease its mean deviation), the tracking time of the GPS device can be
extended for up to 45 seconds. Though this will increase the accuracy of the stored fix, it will
also increase the energy consumption of the collar and can considerably decrease the collar’s
lifetime.
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