- 1. General Usage
- 1. What are the tiny 'D's in the bars on the satellite page?
- 2. How can I use my Garmin GPSMap 76CSx with a program that expects an NMEA datastream such as Microsoft Streets & Trips?
- 3. How can I take a screen dump or capture the image on my Garmin GPSMap 76CSx?
- 4. How can I upload custom icons to my Garmin GPSMap 76CSx?
- 5. What is the blue circle ("halo") that sometime surrounds me on a map?
- 6. Where can I find the owners manuals for these models?
1. General Usage | |||||||||
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1. | What are the tiny 'D's in the bars on the satellite page? | ||||||||
It means your unit is receiving WAAS signal corrections for those satellites. | |||||||||
2. | How can I use my Garmin GPSMap 76CSx with a program that expects an NMEA datastream such as Microsoft Streets & Trips? | ||||||||
On products that use a serial port, you can use an aftermarket serial cable and attach it, but most users will find more joy in using USB with Garmin Spanner or GPSGate to create virtual COM ports that programs like Streets & Trips or Delorme can use. GPSGate is a more flexible program. Spanner does pretty much one thing - converting Garmin PVT to NMEA - but it does it for free. | |||||||||
3. | How can I take a screen dump or capture the image on my Garmin GPSMap 76CSx? | ||||||||
Garmin xImage will capture the screen of your GPS and save it to disk. | |||||||||
4. | How can I upload custom icons to my Garmin GPSMap 76CSx? | ||||||||
Garmin xImage will send custom icons to your GPS. | |||||||||
5. | What is the blue circle ("halo") that sometime surrounds me on a map? | ||||||||
The blue circle graphically illustrates the unit's concept of decreased accuracy on the map. The larger the circle is, the less accurate you should expect your position on the map to be. It is likely to be somewhere inside that circle, but the very fact that the unit has a reduced confidence in its position makes it wise to be skeptical of the data. | |||||||||
6. | Where can I find the owners manuals for these models? | ||||||||
The product manuals for these models can be found on Garmin's web site.
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