Hot Spots Chip Question

[TooReel]

I have a Garmin 376C that I use for Weather and a back up in case my Navman croaks. Well since Hot Spots does not make a NT+ chip for my area I bought one for the garmin with the though that if I find a spot I like I can just mark it on the navman. Problem is I put in the chip and nothing changes. No new waypoints come up, nothing on the chart.......nada. I called garmin and they have no clue what the chip is supposed to do. Anyone else have one of these things and how did you make it work? (yes, I emailed the top spot people but I'm impatient and want to see this thing work now).

Edited August 3, 2009 by TooReel

[triumphrick]

My Lowrance manual had instructions for uploading the chip....

[TooReel]

After some research I have found that my portable garmin does not have the ability for uploading waypoints from chip to GPS. I am working with the Hot Spots people on a solution right now. Bill is going out of his way to help me. Great person to deal with.

My Lowrance manual had instructions for uploading the chip....

[Redfisher77]

TooReel, as we have emailed back and forth, Garmin has stated that there are certain models that take a memory chip, but does not provide the ability to upload waypoints from the card to the unit.

We have since removed the 376c from being listed as a compatible unit.

Seems strange that a manufacturer would create a product to take a memory chip for mapping, but not allow it to save or load waypoints from the memory card. That's a basic function of 99% of the other brands and models out there. Oh well...............

[TooReel]

It all worked out. One good thing about taking the info from chip to Map Source is I was able to remove the spots that I would or could not fish.