Has anyone tried uploading GPS data from their HDS lately? I usually use GPSBabel and convert a whole host of my waypoints into an Excel spreadsheet. However, since I bought a pair of HDS-7s this year, I have had some issues. It seems that Lowrance’s GDM6 can’t read waypoint data from either USR version 3 or 4. GPSBabel can read version three, but a bunch of information is lost, namely time, depth, and icon type. GPSBabel cannot read version 4 at all.
I don’t recall trying this out before doing the HDS 4.0 upgrade, but maybe it’s related? I have older usr files (version 3) from some of my old LCX locators that work on both GPSBabel and GDM6, but no dice so far on the HDS stuff.