[time-nuts] T-Bolt Question

[Ken Winterling]

To All,

The following procedure is taken from notes I made years ago when setting up
my TBOLT using TBOLTMON. I have never had to enter the information again and
the unit recovers automatically even after extended power failures that
exhausted its UPS.

Click Setup -> Self-Survey,
Click the "Enable" and "Save" buttons
Click "Set Survey",
Click "Save Segment",
Click "Close"
Click Control -> Restart Self-Survey.

The "Saved Position" alarm should change to green once the survey process
finishes.

You do not need to copy anything manually unless you want to specify a
more-accurate survey position than what the Thunderbolt arrives at on its
own.

Ken, WA2LBI


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:07, Jim Mandaville <zygo at dakotacom.net> wrote:

> Starting without good saved coordinates will put you into search mode, and
> it may take around 45 minutes to an hour to establish a position, after
> which you will see SVs and AMUs.
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> Once you get a good position, either from self-survey by the Tbolt or by a
> different GPS, you can enter these as follows:
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> On the Tbolt monitor main page:
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> go to menu heading setting "setup"; under that, go to "position"
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> In the "position" window, type in your coordinates.  (The lat. and long.
> must be in degrees and decimal degrees. If you are starting with degrees,
> minutes and decimal minutes, divide the minutes with decimal minutes by 60
> and add the result to your original whole degrees.)  The longitude must
> start with a negative sign if it is west.  For east, no sign is required.
>
> click "set accurate position"; then click "save segment" and close the
> window
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> you should now see the saved position in the main Tbolt window and the
> Tbolt will now start from scratch using these coordinates.  This will reduce
> your fix time to a few minutes.
>
> Jim
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>  HI Dick,
>> I have the same problem and nothing works to enter the coordonates.
>> More, i don't see the SV nor AMUs.
>> 73
>> Alain
>> F4GBC
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard W. Solomon" <
>> w1ksz at earthlink.net>
>>
>> To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:50 AM
>>
>> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] T-Bolt Question
>>
>>
>>> Perhaps I posted this to the wrong forum ??
>>> Maybe if I had Duct-Taped it to a pendulum I may
>>> have gotten more responses ??
>>>
>>> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>
>>>> From: "Richard W. Solomon" <w1ksz at earthlink.net>
>>>> Sent: Jan 12, 2010 5:20 PM
>>>> To: time-nuts at febo.com
>>>> Subject: [time-nuts] E-Bolt Question
>>>>
>>>> I am in T-Bolt Monitor software. The "Saved Position" is
>>>> Yellow. How do I get the T-Bolt to save the survey results ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Dick, W1KSZ
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
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