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Universal Time Coordinate standard. I’m currently on the East Coast of the United States during
daylight savings time, which is four hours behind the UTC.
So I’ll set the UTC to Minus Four
Hours.
I’ll press the Enter button to save that setting.
Now I’ll connect the GPS Accessory to the SM4. The GPS Accessory acquires the satellite signal,
and programs the date, time, and location into the SM4. You see the current location, date, and
time has been entered. I can now disconnect the GPS Accessory and the SM4 will remember
those settings.
Before I press the Schedule Start button I’ll press the Check Status button. The front panel
display of the Song Meter shows me the date and time. The next line shows the current firmware
revision. You can check the Wildlife Acoustics web site to make sure you have the current
firmware installed. The SM4 has two built-in microphones and they are listed and active. If I
connected one or two external microphones the SM4 would automatically sense and list those
microphones.
The third line shows the two memory card slots. You can see I have a blank 16 GB card in slot A
and no memory card installed into slot B.
The fourth line shows the current battery voltage and the current internal temperature of the
SM4.
From the factory, the Song Meter is set to record continuously as soon as the Schedule Start
button is pressed. I’ll press the button and the SM4 goes into Record mode. You can see the
flashing light to indicted that recording is in progress.
The front panel displays the date and time and a message confirming that the Song Meter is
currently recording. The third line shows the next recording will be to the memory card in slot A.
The start and stop times of the record schedule are displayed. You can see that the SM4 is
currently set for continuous recording. And the number on the right displays how many new
record files have been created since the SM4 was last powered on. The last line shows that the
SM4 is recording in stereo at a sample rate of 24 kHz.
I
’ll press the Schedule Stop button to stop the recording and it’s that simple. The SD memory
card can be used to export the recording files to a computer for analysis. If I want to choose a
different recording schedule I can enter the Quick Start menu and I see a list of commonly used
recording schedules. If I want to customize a Daily Recording schedule or create an Advanced
Recording schedule I have those options also. All that’s left to do is deploy the SM4 and press
the Schedule Start button.