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the collar first to determine how much time is required to obtain GPS
positions in your study area.
10. If you are using the repeat mode then the calendar to and calendar from
settings will not be used.
11. Dormancy and drop off options are not applicable to this product, ignore
these.
12. It is required that you give the collar a nickname.
13. Input customer message (optional).
14. Select the time zone for where your study will take place. (Note: the
collar does not recognize a shift between daylight savings time and
standard time).
15. Set GPS additional time. Minimum setting is 5
seconds, maximum setting is 120 seconds.
Note that the GPS additional time used by the
GPS module will never exceed the GPS timeout that you set. For an
explanation of GPS additional time, see description above in the
standard features section.
16. Click OK.
17. To program the collar in calendar mode follow the steps in the next
section. To program the collar by using the repeat mode, skip to the
repeat mode programming section in this manual.
Create program in calendar mode
To set your GPS positioning times you just need to know a few basic things
about the software and then follow the steps below. First, your software has
three possible screens, Calendar, Settings and Data. These can be chosen
using the gray buttons in the upper-left hand portion of the window. Choose
Calendar. Second, each unique positioning scenario that you wish to create is
done inside of a Template. You will create these templates from scratch. There
are 26 blank templates in the software, you may use as many or as few as you
wish. Third, you must set the start date and end date for your program schedule.
The start date and end dates are referred to in the software as calendar from and
calendar to. If you have not set these yet and you are using the calendar mode,
chose edit collar from the file menu and set them now.
It is very important to note that when programmed in calendar mode your collar
will not operate passed the calendar to date that you set even if there is battery
remaining.
1. Within the Quantum user software choose the Calendar screen
2. On the left side of the screen click the tab entitled template.
3. By default, the details of template window will appear.
4. Click the edit parameters box.
5. In the GPS window click add.