Help on entering GPS Coordinates on Humminbird 798

[CRAPPIE HUNTER 2008]

Took Humminbird to Lake Lincoln yesterday and was gonna try and enter some GPS spots that the Dept. of Wildlife had posted on the fishing reports from last week.....heres the question.

All the coordinates has a (6) as the third didget from the left to enter into the plotter screen. And to be honest I dont know if its the Lat. or Long. space. But the scale only goes from 0-5.

Gonna look when I get home, I may have just answered my own question. Even though it is the first set of numbers on their web site.....it may actually was suppose to go into the second blank on the screen.

Any Idea's, I'll repost what I find out....:D

N 31.68244 W 90.33452
N 31.68119 W 90.33363
N 31.68359 W 90.32577
N 31.68923 W 90.32704
N 31.68854 W 90.32812
N 31.68641 W 90.32838
N 31.68555 W 90.33482
N 31.68615 W 90.33572
N 31.68636 W 90.33631
N 31.68235 W 90.33931
N 31.68163 W 90.33286
N 31.68714 W 90.33889
N 31.68564 W 90.34160
N 31.68773 W 90.34068
N 31.68834 W 90.34014

[majflyboy]

N= Lat
W=Lon

[CRAPPIE HUNTER 2008]

Thanks Maj....

[CRAPPIE HUNTER 2008]

Well came home fired up the Humminbird and still can't get the coordinates entered. So its a Email to Humminbird Tech tomorrow....UGH....

[BigBlue]

I know on Garmin handhelds the W or lon line starts 090 and there is also a period between 2nd and 3rd numbers after that....N 31.68.119 W090.33.363

[majflyboy]

It all depends on where you are.

[CRAPPIEHUNTER68]

Crappie Hunter 2008. Here is how I would do this. Copy and paste each of the coordinates you have into Google Earth. Then export that file as a .GPX file. Then save that file to your desktop. Open Humminbird PC and open the file from the desktop. Take an SD card and insert into your 798 and turn the unit on. This will set up a profile on the card. Take the card back from the unit and put back into your computer and save from Humminbird PC to the SD card. After that simply put the sd card back into the 798 and it will recognize and load the points automatically..
Is that clear as mud?

[Wannabe...]

There are multiple standards for GPS co-ordinates. H'bird and others default to one or the other, but the H'bird is capable of switching to another standard without losing your existing waypoints. The function is somewhere in the menu for the GPS setup. You can switch to that standard, enter the co-ordinates and then switch back or leave it on that standard.

Wannabe...

[tritonman]

To simplify what WB said...check your format on the gps and make sure your formats between your gps and mdwfp match up.

[DonDon]

There's one problem I see with those coords. They are Decimal degrees and not degrees, minutes and seconds. Not sure what your Hbird is set to so be careful