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FOUR fishies! Why are we still at work?
Date of Review: Dec 10, 2006
The Bottom Line: I like it.
I bought a Casio Pathfinder WR100M (PAS-400B) a couple years ago at Target. It's still running, and still reminding me that life is more than just work, work, work, work, eat, work, sleep, work.
The Casio has some setup requirements beyond the usual for a watch: date, time, year, longitude and latitude, and "offset" from Greenwich. I may have also needed altitude ... I can't remember. The watch uses this to help calculate sun/moon rise , set, and transit times. After this info is entered and the "next" button (such as it is) is pressed, the watch goes into a funky recalculation mode that takes about 10 or 15 seconds. It will then display phase of the moon grapically, and 0 through 4 icons to indicate the expected animal behavior based on studies related to time of day and phase of the moon, 0 for "I wonder what's on TV" and 4 for "you need a line in the water NOW". I've got mine set to display fish, hence the title of this review ;-) The icon display can be switched to display something that looks like deer or iguanas or wombats - hard to tell - and I didn't get a wombat permit anyway. Sunrise and sunset on full or new moon days is "four fishies". The watch can be set to either beep or vibrate when these periods occur. The "vibrate" mode would probably be better for a hunter up in a tree stand.
The watch also can be set to display the four transit times during a 24 hour period, and the "rating" of each. It can also display sunrise/sunset times and stopwatch mode. It has in interesting "instance" counter - this increments and saves the date and time for later review whenever the button at the 3 o'clock position is pressed and held.
It has 5 individual alarms, each of which may be set to go off "everyday" or on a specific day. One feature I wish it had was a "weekdays only" and "weekends" only. The alarm will use either beep or vibrate mode. I can also set a "once an hour" alarm in beep or vibrate mode.
The light works quite well. Complaints? Other than the lack of alarm controls not much other than size, it is a BIG unit - about 3/8" thick.
