Cane Pole, Craig (the moderator on that web site) must have already heard that you're a trouble maker! Just joking. I think that you will find many others such as yourself that want more out of their unit than we can currently offer. If you are still having problems just e-mail me your e-mail address and I will contact the moderator on your behalf.

Years ago I had one of the Software Engineers get all in my space because I made the "it would only take some more software to do it". Seems it sounds like a simple think to those of us who don;t actually write code... Still I think (insert personal opinion disclaimer) that HumminbirdPC should have this capability too!

Someone would have to check on this but I think that the *.bmp files are faster for the units to write/save. I also believe that just about any PC out there can open a *.bmp file. This would be a good question for the Yahoo site as we have at least a couple of real live Software Engineers that hang out on that web site.

The FCC has something to say about the whole AC power thing. We may have gotten into a little issue about this with them many years ago... The 9V battery cable was originally only meant for those units that did not have an SD card reader/writer. The idea was for fishermen to use an MMC/SD card to perform software updates and manage GPS data with their units on the boat so that we did not have the added expense of passing whatever test criteria the FCC says we have to pass in order to (legally) be allowed to be connected to the power grid. This helps us keep the cost of our units down. I suspect (insert personal opinion disclaimer) that as we get into more of the high-end market though, that at some point we will have to have this capability. Still I would bet that you could buy a power cable and rechargeble battery or 12V AC supply for cheaper than we could kit one for. In fact there is someone on E-bay that is selling a 12V AC adapter that has our power cable connector on it right now. Not sure how he is doing this as that is not a standard connector that we use.