Garmin 62s?

[bowhunterforever]

So I have a garmin 62s and after so many miles my tracks go away for some reason Is there a way to make it so my tracks never go away?Thanks

[Whitpirate]

Are you running out of memory?  I'd replace the card and save tracks to the SD card... I put a 16GB in mine.

[Bmcox86]

 

[Rider]

Download to your pc/mac.

[bowhunterforever]

Not sure if i'm running out of memory, How do I check that? I am also using a hunt washington chip in mine if that makes and difference.

[Whitpirate]

Pull out the manual and read about the settings pages.... you'll be able to see what is consuming all the space.  I don't have a huntingGPS map chip in mine so I can't help there.

[bowhunterforever]

Bump

[jdb]

What's a hunt washington chip?

[jackelope]

What's a hunt washington chip?

A huntinggpsmaps chip for WA state.

[Bob33]

The 62s stores a maximum of 10,000 trackpoints. Download the tracks you want to a PC before they start getting overwritten.

[bowhunterforever]

The 62s stores a maximum of 10,000 trackpoints. Download the tracks you want to a PC before they start getting overwritten.

Well that sucks I thought they would always stay on there. Guess i'll just let them go away. Do they disappear from oldest to newest?

[Alchase]

The 62s has an internal memory of 1.6gb.
So unless you have allot of tracks, I doubt that is your problem.
Are you saving the track before you turn the unit off?
Are overwiting the previous track?

On mine I also have a 8gb microsd card and save the track to the card.

Download "Basecamp" from Garmin, after each hunt/hike upload your tracks. You can also reverse that and set way points in "Basecamp" then download them to you 62s.
It is great for new areas.

[Bob33]

The 62s stores a maximum of 10,000 trackpoints. Download the tracks you want to a PC before they start getting overwritten.

Well that sucks I thought they would always stay on there. Guess i'll just let them go away. Do they disappear from oldest to newest?

That would require unlimited memory. Do the math: a trackpoint every 10 seconds is 6 a minute and 360 an hour. The 10,000 trackpoint limit would be reached in 27 hours.

If you are using a Hunt GPS chip you cannot write to it.