[time-nuts] Tboltmon position

[John Miles]

Or you could also click Setup->Self-Survey->Save Position Flag->Save, Set
Survey, and Save Segment.

I agree that TboltMon's user interface is a bit offbeat in places, but I
don't think I'd hold Microsoft responsible for it. :-P

-- john, KE5FX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
> Behalf Of Thomas A. Frank
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:37 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Tboltmon position
>
>
> Thank you for the information, which I find rather disappointing.
>
> For some reason, I had an expectation that a GPS would find its own
> position and save it, perhaps with a manual click, rather than having
> the operator write down the values and have to type them into some
> data entry boxes on another screen (with the potential for error that
> entails).
>
> I suppose I should have expected such a level of 'quality' from a
> Windows based program.  Glad the software is largely optional to use
> the T'bolt.
>
> Tom Frank, KA2CDK
>
>
> On Jun 14, 2008, at 12:06 AM, John Miles wrote:
>
> > You can also just look yourself up on Google Earth and enter the
> > coordinates
> > by hand.
> >
> > -- john, KE5FX
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-
> >> bounces at febo.com]On
> >> Behalf Of Mark Sims
> >> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 9:00 PM
> >> To: time-nuts at febo.com
> >> Subject: [time-nuts] Tboltmon position
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Try SETUP,  POSITION,  (enter values from survey),  SAVE
> >> SEGMENT...  I think that's what got mine to remember the results
> >> of its (3 days to complete) self survey.
> >>
> >> -----------------------
> >> I am curious, however...how does one get TboltMon to SAVE the
> >> surveyed position?  It had the proper value in a few hours, and by
> >> the next day all the little software lights were one...but the
> >> program doesn't seem to have saved the value.
> >>
>