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Setting the datum for hawaii


Ottoboy1

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Hi. Can anyone help me with the settings I need to put into my gps so that it recognises I'm now in the USA and not australia? I had a bit of a search and a guess so I can now enter coordinates, but it's obviously not right as it has me out in the ocean. I dont even know if "datum" is the correct term, but I couldn't enter N and W coordinates as we use S and E in Australia. I'm on Maui and then Kauai until late next week. Cheers, ottoboy1. (I have a magellan explorist 310 if that's relevant. )

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Keep in mind that when you do turn it on for the first time in Hawaii (assuming you haven't travelled with it on) it can take much longer than normal to start up, as it has to download all the almanac data. On Garmins if they don't get a satellite lock after a few minutes they will ask if you've traveled more than 500 miles since it was last used before doing this.

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At the bottom of every cache page, you'll see "Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum".

 

This is very important if you're entering coords by hand, or reading them out after having placed a cache. All caches worldwide are (supposed to be) recorded using WGS84.

 

Your unit may have come from the factory set for WGS84, I don't know. Set it to that, then leave it there permanently, wherever you are in the world.

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