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If you have trouble sending the email to break-off the collar, contact ATS and we can request the
break-off for you.
Once the collar has been broken off successfully, the VHF beep pattern will be changed to the
pattern indicating the collar break-off mechanism has been successfully fired. If the break-off
mechanism failed to fire properly, the VHF beep pattern will be changed to the pattern indicating
a failed break-off. If the break-off attempt is not successful, you can try again to break off the
collar by sending another email.
Section 11 Power-on Self Test
As explained in Section 4, Operating the GPS Collar, there is a special start-up beep pattern once
the magnet is pulled off the collar. For five minutes the collar will emit a double pulse pattern at
48 ppm. This pattern will occur regardless of whether the collar is programmed to be actively
emitting VHF pulses at that time.
Removing the magnet from a collar also forces the collar to perform tests on the main battery,
backup battery, and firing squibs. These tests will begin 2 ½ minutes after the magnet is
removed, and take about 20 seconds to complete. If any of the tests fail, then the VHF beep
pattern will be changed to a low battery pattern (triple pulse at 27 ppm). If the tests all pass, the
collar will revert back to the normal beep pattern, unless it is not programmed to be emitting
VHF beeps at that time.
Section 12 Data Conversion
ATS
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for Satellite Collars provides two data conversion processes for users. One is a Julian
day to month/day conversion. This conversion is meant to convert an emailed cumulative data
file and converts the Julian day of a dataset to the corresponding month (number) and day of the
dataset. The other conversion ATS
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provides is an unsuccessful fixes removal from the
data. In this conversion, all data for unsuccessful fixes will be removed from the data. This
conversion is intended to work on data files downloaded directly from a collar using the decimal
degree format. In both conversions, the actual data file is not modified. Instead, a new file is
generated with the filename of OUTPUTjjj-tttt where jjj is the Julian day when the file was
created and tttt is the 24 hour time when the file was created.
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