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Auto satellite search – Eagle Electronics CUDA 350 S/MAP User Manual

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To change alarm settings:
1. Press

MENU

|

MENU

|

↓ to

A

LARMS

|

ENT

.

Select

GPS

A

LARMS

|

ENT

.

2. Use

↓ ↑ to select an alarm category and press

ENT

, which will turn

on (check) or turn off (uncheck) the alarm.
3. To change distance settings, scroll

↓ ↑ to the desired alarm distance

diaglog box and press

ENT

. Use

↑ ↓ to change the first character, then

press

→ to the next character and repeat until the distance is correct.

4. When your adjustments are finished, return to the main page display

by repeatedly pressing

EXIT

.

Auto Satellite Search

To lock onto the satellites, the GPS receiver needs to know its current

position, UTC time and date. (Elevation (altitude) is also used in the

equation, but it is rarely required to determine a position.) It needs this

data so that it can calculate which satellites should be in view. It then

searches only for those satellites.
When your GPS receiver is turned on for the first time, it does not know

what your position or elevation (altitude) is. It does know the current UTC

time and date since it has an internal clock that keeps time while the unit

is turned off. If the time and/or date are incorrect, you can set it using the

Set Local Time menu. The unit begins searching for the satellites using

the above data that it acquired the last time it was turned on. This

probably was at the factory. Since you almost certainly are not at our

factory, it is probably looking for the wrong satellites.
If it does not find the satellites it is looking for after one minute, the

unit will switch to Auto Search. The receiver looks for any satellite in

the sky. Due to advanced technology, the auto search time has shrunk

significantly from the early days of GPS.
Once the unit locks onto the satellites, it should take less than a minute to

find your position the next time it is turned on, provided you haven't

moved more than 100 miles from the last location it was used.