These instructions are provided to give you a quick introduction to the capabilities of Party Chief Surveying Software^TM. For an introduction to some of the Cogo capabilities just follow along with the keystrokes provided. References to manual pages are provided for more in depth information. Please read at least pages 1 through 10 in the manual. A lot of general concepts are explained here.

When following along remember the program names on the overlay are written above the key you should press. For example, press Right-Shift-EEX to run the Config program (Key Assignments, Page 6).

The first section deals with installation of the software. If you are unsure if the software is already installed, skip to step 6. If you can enter the System Menu, select 4: RAM Card Information. If you can do this, the software is already installed and you may skip to the next section.

Installing Party Chief

• With the HP48 turned off, insert your Party Chief ROM card into port 1. Insert a RAM card into port 2 of your HP48 (Page 8).
• Turn on the HP48. You should see the message "Attaching Party Chief" briefly.
• Press and type PC48 . You should see the installation screen.
• If prompted to initialize RAM card press the YES softkey. Please note that this will erase all contents of the RAM card.
• Enter the current date and time when prompted. Do NOT press the On/Attn key to avoid this. Note that the date is entered in mm.ddyyyy format (for example 12.251993 is Christmas), and time is entered in military format with a decimal between the hour and minute (1:30 PM is entered as 13.30).
• Press to enter the System Menu then select item 1: Define New Owner. This allows you to enter a name which will be attached to files and printouts (Page 27).

This completes the installation of the software. At some point you should enter the Config program to further set up your system.

Creating A File

• Press File Manager to enter the File Manager program (Page 13).
• Select option 1: Create File. At the File Type screen select 0: Cogo File (Page 15).
• Type in the filename LOT1 and press .
• At the next three prompts, (Point Prefix, Beg. Point, and End Point), just press to accept the default values. The file will now be created.
• Press the softkey to exit the File Manager program.

Basic Coordinate Geometry

In this section we will compute coordinates for a sample lot. See page 7 for a plan of this sample lot. The lot will be computed on assumed coordinates beginning at 5000,5000. To follow along the maximum point number should be set to 999, and Advanced Mode should be on. These are set in the Config program and are the defaults if you just installed the software.

• Enter the beginning coordinates by typing 5000 5000 .
• Store these coordinates as point 1 by typing 1 . The coordinates will be displayed with the point number above them (Page 19).
• Enter the bearing and distance of the first course by typing 1045 200 (page 6 for bearing format, page 42 for Traverse with bearings).
• Coordinates for point 2 are now displayed on the stack. Store them as point 2 by typing 2 (Page 19).
• Now we can turn a right hand angle for the next course and traverse again. Type 90 100 . Because bearings are always greater than 1000, the program immediately recognizes the 90 as a right hand angle (page 6 for bearing format, page 44 for Traverse with angles).
• Type 3 to store the coordinates for point 3.
• To turn a left hand angle, use a negative angle. On point 3 we will turn 270° left. Type 270 100 .
• When storing a series of sequential points you can use the AUTOSTORE program. Instead of entering a point number and pressing [STORE] as we did previously, just press [AUTOSTO]. This will automatically use the next point number (point 4) (Page 21).
• We are now sitting on point 4, and backsiting point 3 (the Traverse program establishes this each time). To compute the right hand angle, and stakeout distance to a point use the Stakeout Tie program (S/O). Type 2 to compute a stakeout tie to point 2. This will display an azimuth, bearing, right angle, and distance to the point.
• The Sideshot program (SS), computes coordinates for a point like Traverse, but does not update the rently occupied point. While still sitting on point 4 type 90 80 [AutoSto] to compute and store coordinates for point 5. Now type 90 100 to compute coordinates to point 7 but do not store them. With the coordinates on the stack, type 1 [INV]. This shows how you can inverse using both coordinates and point numbers simultaneously. The bearing and distance from point 7 to point 1 is displayed.

This concludes the basic introduction to Party Chief. You have now seen some of the way the Inverse, Traverse, Stakeout Tie, and Sideshot programs an be used. For more information see the appropriate sections in the manual. These programs can all be used interactively, in a variety of ways to solve the problems you will encounter day to day.

Key Notation
Indicates an HP48 key
Indicates an HP48 softkey (A-F keys, bottom line of display)
Left Shift	Right Shift	Alpha Key
Left Arrow	Right Arrow	Up Arrow	Down Arrow

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