Thread: H-Bird users

Just remember ...

Editing waypoint names on any of the "non- touch" core series units is a very time consuming process ...because of having to use the 4way cursor one click at a time for selecting and changing each character in the waypoint name ...

So you may find that a "re-naming method" with fewer characters will be more efficient ...

Rickie

Finally, Rickie...that is what I am looking for!!!! Would you please give me some examples

All I came up with like for a fish attractor on Sardis lake #12...would be SLfa12....then I would only use 3 icons.. One for fish caught, land marks, and fish attractors of any sort..I already have them grouped by lakes..I only fish 5 big lakes

You could shorten that to....SA12

I just organized 5000 Waypoints by lake for Tony Sheppard (2014 Crappie Masters champion) ...

Even tho I edited the Waypoints in HBPC ... I still found the shortest amount of characters possible and still be able to discern that waypoint by recognition ...

Realizing that HB units have a maximum waypoint capacity in the internal memory ...I left the last 4 characters of the waypoint name string for the sequential numbering of 0001-3000 (most HB units are max at 2750 or 3000 but still 4 characters) ...

Then at the front of the waypoint string naming would be a Capital letter for the lake ...followed by n (North) or s (South) for some larger lakes ...

For example Tony wanted Kentucky Lake separated into North and South ... :

So on 1 SD Card ... Waypoints were named as Kn0001, Kn0002, etc (meaning Ky Lake North 0001, Ky Lake North 0002, etc)

On a separate SD Card ... Waypoints were named as Ks0001, Ks0002, etc (meaning Ky Lake South 0001, Ky Lake South 0002, etc)
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On smaller lakes, Tony didn't want separate SD Cards for sections ...so just the Capital letter and the number sequence was used for waypoint naming ...

Rickie