I had a Garmin 12 handheld GPS and have recently bought a Navman 5600
Chartplotter. When I put my Garmin co-ordinates (eg. S32-03-494,
E115-32-050)into the Navman, I am not finding the reef on my sounder,
and therefore no fish! I have tried 4 of my usual spots and each time
I am not finding reef. My Navman manual says latitude and longitude
are degrees, minutes and minutes to 3 decimal places. I do not have
the manual to my Garmin 12, but someone told me that the last 3 digits
on Garmins are not minutes to 3 decimal places, they are seconds or
something different ???

Can someone please help me convert my Garmin co-ordinates so they work
in my Navman GPS ?

Craig wrote:
I had a Garmin 12 handheld GPS and have recently bought a Navman 5600
Chartplotter. When I put my Garmin co-ordinates (eg. S32-03-494,
E115-32-050)into the Navman, I am not finding the reef on my sounder,
and therefore no fish! I have tried 4 of my usual spots and each time
I am not finding reef. My Navman manual says latitude and longitude
are degrees, minutes and minutes to 3 decimal places. I do not have
the manual to my Garmin 12, but someone told me that the last 3 digits
on Garmins are not minutes to 3 decimal places, they are seconds or
something different ???

Can someone please help me convert my Garmin co-ordinates so they work
in my Navman GPS ?


You need to go into your Garmin setup section and change the deg. min. sec.
format to deg. min. decimal mins. All Garmins have a navigation setup page,
but not all have the same method of bringing it on screen, so you will have
to search around the menu.

--
Remove "nospam" from return address.

On Garmins, and probably on the navman, that is a question of user
setup. If you can't still look at the Garmin to see how it was set,
try changing the Navman to DDD-MM-SS and see where the reefs come out.

Or just calculate the values separately and enter them as new
waypoints.

On 20 Jan 2004 01:10:28 -0800, (Craig) wrote:

I had a Garmin 12 handheld GPS and have recently bought a Navman 5600
Chartplotter. When I put my Garmin co-ordinates (eg. S32-03-494,
E115-32-050)into the Navman, I am not finding the reef on my sounder,
and therefore no fish! I have tried 4 of my usual spots and each time
I am not finding reef. My Navman manual says latitude and longitude
are degrees, minutes and minutes to 3 decimal places. I do not have
the manual to my Garmin 12, but someone told me that the last 3 digits
on Garmins are not minutes to 3 decimal places, they are seconds or
something different ???

Can someone please help me convert my Garmin co-ordinates so they work
in my Navman GPS ?


Rodney Myrvaagnes NYC J36 Gjo/a

"WooWooism lives" Anon grafitto on the base of the Cuttyhunk breakwater light

"Dennis Pogson" wrote in message ...
Craig wrote:
I had a Garmin 12 handheld GPS and have recently bought a Navman 5600
Chartplotter. When I put my Garmin co-ordinates (eg. S32-03-494,
E115-32-050)into the Navman, I am not finding the reef on my sounder,
and therefore no fish! I have tried 4 of my usual spots and each time
I am not finding reef. My Navman manual says latitude and longitude
are degrees, minutes and minutes to 3 decimal places. I do not have
the manual to my Garmin 12, but someone told me that the last 3 digits
on Garmins are not minutes to 3 decimal places, they are seconds or
something different ???

Can someone please help me convert my Garmin co-ordinates so they work
in my Navman GPS ?


You need to go into your Garmin setup section and change the deg. min. sec.
format to deg. min. decimal mins. All Garmins have a navigation setup page,
but not all have the same method of bringing it on screen, so you will have
to search around the menu.


Thanks ,but I don`t have my Garmin anymore.Does anyone know the
formular to convert my Garmin co-ordinates?

On 20 Jan 2004 17:11:07 -0800, (Craig) wrote:



Thanks ,but I don`t have my Garmin anymore.Does anyone know the
formular to convert my Garmin co-ordinates?


Only the seconds will be different. If you have a Lat or Lon in form
DDDMMSS divide the seconds (SS) by 60 to get DDDMM.MMM



Rodney Myrvaagnes NYC J36 Gjo/a

"WooWooism lives" Anon grafitto on the base of the Cuttyhunk breakwater light

Rodney Myrvaagnes wrote in message . ..
On 20 Jan 2004 17:11:07 -0800, (Craig) wrote:



Thanks ,but I don`t have my Garmin anymore.Does anyone know the
formular to convert my Garmin co-ordinates?


Only the seconds will be different. If you have a Lat or Lon in form
DDDMMSS divide the seconds (SS) by 60 to get DDDMM.MMM



Rodney Myrvaagnes NYC J36 Gjo/a

"WooWooism lives" Anon grafitto on the base of the Cuttyhunk breakwater light


Thanks for the replies Dennis and Rodney,problem solved.