Garmin Personal Navigator GPS 40 Owner's Manual & Reference

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The GPS 40 Position Page displays your currentposition’s latitude, longitude, altitude and timenumerically. It also displays your track (compassdirection) and speed whenever you’re moving.The Position Page also lets you enter a position’slatitude and longitude manually. During satelliteacquisition, the position displayed is the last com-puted position stored in memory. If the receiver’sposition has moved several hundred miles with thepower off or memory has been lost due to batteryfailure, the unit may take 7 1/2 to 15 minutes toacquire satellite data.To speed up the acquisition process, you can entera more accurate initial position. Most maps and chartsshow the latitude and longitude of major cities.1. Press the D key until the position field ishighlighted.2. Press E to begin entry of your position.3 Use the L and R arrow keys to select thecharacter position you want to edit.4. Use the U and D arrow keys to select thevalue for each field. All fields must have a value.5. Press the E key to confirm your changes.When the GPS 40 is acquiring satellites or navi-gating in the 2D mode, the last known altitudewill be used to compute your position. If the alti-tude shown is off by several hundred feet, enter acorrected altitude manually for greater accuracy.1. Press the D key until the altitude field ishighlighted.2. Press E to begin entry of your altitude.3. Use the U and D keys to enter a value ineach character field, using the L and R keysto move to the next character position.4. Press the E key to confirm the altitude. 17The unit of measure forspeed, position and alti-tude are all user-selec-table. To change thedefault settings for thesefields, refer to the naviga-tion setup instructions onpage 41.ReferencePosition PageOptions