flat2suff Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Please help. Just bought new Garmin etrex and I can't make any sense of the instructions. Need a simple step by step guide to entering co-ordinates so that my son and I can get started.Thanks Quote Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Please help. Just bought new Garmin etrex and I can't make any sense of the instructions. Need a simple step by step guide to entering co-ordinates so that my son and I can get started.Thanks See the FAQ. Quote Link to comment
+gps_junky Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 Did you figure it out????? Quote Link to comment
+imajeep Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 The FAQ should get you going. Keep in mind that most Garmins will connect to your PC, so that you can download coordinates, instead of entering them manually. FAQs cover downloading coordinates from GC.com so that you can transfer them to your PC Quote Link to comment
+Chuy! Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Your Etrex H has a serial connection. You may need to get a USB-Serial adapter as most computers today do not support serial connections. To enter coords, go to the menu and select Mark; you need to have a satellite lock to mark a waypoint. After marking the waypoint, go back to the menu and select Waypoints. Find the waypoint you created and edit the coordinates. Be sure your GPS is using the WGS84 datum and using the hddd mm.mmm' format. I think you want Setup to view the dafault settings. Quote Link to comment
+PhxChem Posted January 31, 2008 Share Posted January 31, 2008 Your Etrex H has a serial connection. You may need to get a USB-Serial adapter as most computers today do not support serial connections. If you look on ebay, there are also 3rd-party cords that connect from the Garmin directly to USB (it comes with a serial-to-USB driver that you install on your computer). Once you do this, there are many applications that you can use to transfer cache coordinates. Quote Link to comment
flat2suff Posted February 10, 2008 Author Share Posted February 10, 2008 many thanks. We finally sorted it out. Found our first cache today. Cheers. Your Etrex H has a serial connection. You may need to get a USB-Serial adapter as most computers today do not support serial connections. To enter coords, go to the menu and select Mark; you need to have a satellite lock to mark a waypoint. After marking the waypoint, go back to the menu and select Waypoints. Find the waypoint you created and edit the coordinates. Be sure your GPS is using the WGS84 datum and using the hddd mm.mmm' format. I think you want Setup to view the dafault settings. Quote Link to comment
+PhxChem Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 To enter coords, go to the menu and select Mark; you need to have a satellite lock to mark a waypoint You can actually change the coordinates before you save it when using the mark function. Before you click OK to save it, use the up/down buttons to change to coordinates at the bottom of the screen. Then click OK to save. Quote Link to comment
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