CrappieMop .... you have the capacity to store 5000 waypoints in a HDS8 !!

I have a Elite 5DSI, capable of holding 3000 waypoints ... and I only have 100 on one lake entered. Even if I had 200 on each lake I fish, I'd probably have over 1000 empty waypoint spaces. And 200 waypoints would likely take me over a week of fishing 12hr days @ 30mins per waypoint !!

My unit does not have the "options" for the various coordinates conversions, and the waypoints I got were the decimal degrees version (on the map I took them from). I used the "converter" program site that Justinp61 has in his post, and converted the coordinates to GPS numbers, then manually entered them into the unit. Took the boat/unit to the lake, fired up the unit & went looking to see how accurate the coord's were. When the boat icon was centered over the waypoint icon ... the sonar screen lit up with the brushpiles that were dropped. DEAD ON !!

I had to chuckle at Greg's remark about some of the numbers putting one out in the ocean. You see, the reason I even LOOKED for a converter was because I input the decimal degrees numbers in my unit (manually) and looked to see how accurate they were. I had to clip off the last digit, in order to make them fit, but figured "seconds" were the "last few feet" of the equation. Boy, was I wrong ... my waypoints ended up being 40 miles away from the lake
After converting them to GPS .... they've proved to be a lot more accurate than I ever imagined/expected they'd be.

... cp