Acquiring Gps Position Information Manually; Acquiring Gps Time Information Manually - Casio QW 5531 Operation Manual

Acquiring GPS Position Information
Manually
You can use a button operation to acquire
GPS location information and adjust your
Home City, time, and day settings in
accordance with your current location.
Note
GPS signal reception requires large
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amounts of power. Perform it only
when necessary.
Getting ready
Enter the Timekeeping Mode.
Navigating Between Modes
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1.
Move to a location appropriate for signal
reception and orient the watch so its
display is pointed straight up at the sky.
2.
Hold down (B) for at least 1.5 seconds.
Release the button as soon as the second
hand points to "T(TIME)".
The second hand will move in the
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following sequence: "Y(YES)" or
"N(NO)" n "T(TIME)".
3.
Press (B).
This will cause the second hand to move
to "T+P", indicating that location
information acquisition has started. The
position of the second hand during
reception will depend on the current
reception conditions.
Poor reception
Good reception
Second hand
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If location information acquisition is
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successful, the second hand will move
to "Y(YES)" and then the watch will
automatically adjust its time and day
settings. The watch will display the
acquired Home City and the day of the
week hand will indicate the approximate
latitude of your current location.
North Pole
Equator
If position information acquisition fails
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for some reason, the second hand will
move to "N(NO)" and then the watch will
indicate the current time and day
without adjusting them.
Note
Reception takes anywhere from
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about 30 to 80 seconds.
It can take as long as 13 minutes
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when leap second information is
included.
You may experience location
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information acquisition problems
when you are in the vicinity of a city
borderline.
The watch's time and day will not be
indicated correctly if the Home City
setting is not right for your location.
If this happens, move to a location
near the center of the city you want
to set as your Home City and
acquired location information again.
Or you can perform a time
information receive operation to
adjust time and day settings after
configuring Home City and summer
time settings manually.
Setting a Home Time City
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Acquiring GPS Time Information
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Manually
Acquiring GPS Time Information
Manually
You can use a button operation on the watch
to receive GPS signal time information. When
the receive operation is successful, the
watch's Home City, day, and time settings will
be adjusted accordingly.
Note
Latitude
Getting ready
Enter the Timekeeping Mode.
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Home City
1.
2.
GPS signal reception requires large
●
amounts of power. Perform it only
when necessary.
Navigating Between Modes
Move to a location appropriate for signal
reception and orient the watch so its
display is pointed straight up at the sky.
Hold down (B) for at least 1.5 seconds.
Release the button as soon as the second
hand points to "T(TIME)".
The second hand will move in the
●
following sequence: "Y(YES)" or
"N(NO)" n "T(TIME)".
This indicates that time information
●
receipt has started.
Second hand
If information acquisition is successful,
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the second hand will move to "Y(YES)",
and then the watch will automatically
adjust its time and day settings.
If reception fails for some reason, the
●
second hand will move to "N(NO)" and
then the watch will indicate the current
time and day without adjusting them.
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