Need help loading waypoints to gps

[GeoPink]

…we may take you up on your offer Geopink!

Glady, but I can’t promise anything, and we’ll have to do a couple of caches whether we can get it to work or not! 😀

[GeoPink]

Jeremy, I will hopefully be meeting up with these folks, tonight. I may need your help as a phone-a-friend. Keep your cell phone handy!

[Jeremy]

@GeoPink wrote:

Jeremy, I will hopefully be meeting up with these folks, tonight. I may need your help as a phone-a-friend. Keep your cell phone handy!

I take it from the lack of calls and emails tonight that either things went really well (like you followed my instructions/suggestions and everything downloaded fine… just like I said it would :)) or went really bad (like you didn’t meet up with these folks due to the weather, or you got there and couldn’t do anything because they lost power).

[carron55]

Thanks to all who replied to my desperate cries for help. I have succeeded in loading my gps! Special thanks to Geopink for stopping over and lending a hand. Loaded thru a MMC, not through the cable. Hope to someday be able to use the cable as the MMC is a pain to take in and out, but hey…I’m just happy to have loaded the darn thing! Thanks again!

[hogrod]

@Jeremy wrote:

You first need to create a Lowrance USR file in GSAK by doing the following:

– Click on the File menu
– Go to Export
– Click on Lowrance USR…
– Set the export options, enter a filename, and click Generate

The next step is to copy the USR file created to a memory card… which is easily done if you have a USB card reader for your PC

This is pretty much exactly how I have loaded waypoints to the ifinder H20. I had GSAK create the USR file right on the card, that way next time I could create an updated file even quicker(since my pc always sees that card slot as the same drive letter & GSAK remembers the last creation location). Then you can even add a Lowrance button to the GSAK tool bar so its one button click to send waypoints to your card.

If I remember correctly once you have the waypoint file on the card your not quite done, you also need to load that file from the card to the GPS receiver.
In one of the many gpsr menu’s you have to transfer/Load the waypoint file to internal memory. I beleive you can have multiple waypoint USR files on the card and load them as needed(Internal memory is 1000 waypoints). you could have a USR waypoint file for each city, state, county, ect.

[GeoPink]

@Jeremy wrote:

@GeoPink wrote:

Jeremy, I will hopefully be meeting up with these folks, tonight. I may need your help as a phone-a-friend. Keep your cell phone handy!

I take it from the lack of calls and emails tonight that either things went really well (like you followed my instructions/suggestions and everything downloaded fine… just like I said it would :)) or went really bad (like you didn’t meet up with these folks due to the weather, or you got there and couldn’t do anything because they lost power).

Yeah, we tried the cable… After following directions to to a tee, I paged through the iFinder. Started doing the old “I wonder if it will work if I change this setting… Nope.” Tried many different things. I d’loaded Lowrance’s own GDM software but apparently that only creates a text or .usr file.

The card reader is really the way to go. You will get all of your waypoint information instead of just the coordinates through the cord.

Had a nice visit with Caron55. Glad we could be of some assistance.

– Jeff

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