Ifinder Go2 - Manual Waypoint Entry?

[+JohnTee]

Received a Lowrance iFinder Go2 for Christmas. I'm already wishing that I had picked something a little higher up that would PC interface. Regardless, can anyone give me an idea of how to manually enter a waypoint in the Go2?

 

When I press "Ent" I'm given the option to "Create Waypoint" in the form of:

"Quick Save"

"Current Pos"

"Cursor Pos"

"Entered Pos"

"Averaged Pos"

"Projected Pos"

 

In my mind, "Entered Pos" would be the place to enter a position.

 

Chose "Entered Pos" and "Create" and I get a window to "Edit Position" entering a Lat/Long. From there, I would think that I should be able to 'Save' the entered position with a name. The ONLY thing I can get, past entering the coord's, is "Exit" which gives me an error message "The position has not been entered completely" "Change Cancel". "Change" takes me back into editing the lat/long and "Cancel" completely exits out of this menu.

 

The 'basic' manual that comes with it addresses very little. The downloaded 'Advanced' manual does not address the "Entered Pos" menu entry!?!?!

 

Beyond this, I'm contemplating returning this to Bass Pro Shops and upgrading.

 

John

[+half-a-dozen]

Don't panic!

When you get to the 'Edit Position' screen, press 'Ent' to start entering the Latitude coords. Then use the 'Arrow' keys to scroll up or down to enter each number of the coordinates. After each number of the coordinate, scroll right with the 'Arrow' key to the next blank.

When Latitude is what you want it to read, press 'Ent' again to start entering the Longitude part of the coordinates. Again, use the 'Arrow' keys to scroll up or down to enter each number of the coordinates.

When you are satisfied with the coordinates keyed in, press 'Exit' - this will take you into another menu where you can further edit your newly created waypoint. At the bottom of the screen, you can use your 'Arrow' key to scroll through choices such as 'GoTo', 'Find on Map', 'Edit Name', 'Edit Symbol'.

Lowrances are great units; you just have to do a bit of entering to put waypoints in manually.

Hope I answered your question.

Linda

[+JohnTee]

<John Quoted Linda>

When you are satisfied with the coordinates keyed in, press 'Exit' - this will take you into another menu where you can further edit your newly created waypoint. At the bottom of the screen, you can use your 'Arrow' key to scroll through choices such as 'GoTo', 'Find on Map', 'Edit Name', 'Edit Symbol'.

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Hi Linda,

 

Thank you very much for the reply. Strange enough, that sounds exactly like what I was doing. Entered a complete Lat/Long, then hit exit, which is where I expected another menu. That's where I got the error message. I wonder if I've got a software glitch?

 

Not sure if you will call what I did, "panic", but I have bought a Garmin eTrex Legend and will be returning the Lowrance to Bass Pro. I was not pleased with the skimpy manual, there was a very S L O W screen recovery when panning and the down key did not work very well. I knew at the time of purchase there was no PC intereface and thought it was something I could live without.

 

The Garmin eTrex Legend came with a more complete manual, manual coord entry works without problem, screen recovery is MUCH faster and it has a PC interface. All for only $32 more at my friendly local Wally World!

 

I've already played with the Garmin quite a bit and am very pleased with it. Have yet to play with the PC interface. Have yet to geocache with it . . . maybe tomorrow!

 

Thanks.

 

John

[+briansnat]

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