[FrederickUK]

I just read on another forum about the compass/backlight "feature"

I've managed to get everything set, so I'll take it out with my gps tomorrow to see exactly how accurate I have managed to get it!!

Edited to add - it's just made two 5 tone increasing beeps at me... no storm alert on the screen and a pretty flat barometric graph, so what's these beeps for, low battery????

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