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Need help with getting started with garmin rino

Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2014 06:23:34 No.354640 View View Reply Original Report

Im going hunting tomorrow night, and right now I have been given a garmin rino 530HCx (on its own, no box) and its charger. Thats it.

The garmin does not have an SD card inside, so i just cleared data from an old microsd (8GB) and popped that in.

How do I even get started with this? Is there a list of basic software I need to download?

How do I even take a look into my garmin files? When I attach the garmin to my computer via USB it does not appear in my devices and drives.

I have no experience with garmin devices and this thing has been given to me without the box/instructions/CD it might have come with so I am very lost.

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2014 08:01:25 No.354661 Report

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>>354640
no idea what the fuck you're on about but that background is awesome

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2014 08:08:56 No.354663 Report

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>>354640
>/ g /

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2014 08:20:58 No.354667 Report

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>im to fucking stupid to put "garmin rino 539HCx manual" into google

kill yourself

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Anonymous Thu 24 Jul 2014 12:51:40 No.354730 Report

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The Millenials in a nutshell.

Mule

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Mule Sat 26 Jul 2014 19:40:54 No.356444 Report

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>Im going hunting tomorrow night, and right now I have been given a garmin rino 530HCx (on its own, no box) and its charger. Thats it.
>How do I even get started with this? Is there a list of basic software I need to download?
One day to become familiar with GPS nav is ... not gonna happen. Play around with it as a toy, but don't depend on it for navigation till you figure out how to use it.
You'll want a mapset of your choice on the µSD card. I like CityNav for everything but snowmobiling, where I switch to topo. Main reason being that i'm more interested in terrain than roads, since over-the-snow vehicles aren't restricted to road travel. CityNav is full of useful POI's, and includes damn near every highway to goat trail in its database.
On the computer... Google Earth, LoadMyTracks or EasyGPS, and a text editor. GPX and KML are just xml files, they're not too hard to figure out.
Manuals are available for download on the internet.

>The garmin does not have an SD card inside, so i just cleared data from an old microsd (8GB) and popped that in.
Which is a great start. Turn on "Log tracks to datacard". The main purpose of the µSD card is to store additional maps.

You can boot it into Mass Storage mode, but that just makes it function as an expensive card reader. Get a tool like EasyGPS or LoadMyTracks to push and pull data from it.

If you search for "setting up a garmin 76 60 gps" you'll find a good guide. The operation of the 530 is similar enough to the 60/76.

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Anonymous Sat 26 Jul 2014 19:45:37 No.356447 Report

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>>356444
>but don't depend on it for navigation till you figure out how to use it.
don't depend on it for navigation till you've soiled your map, broken your compass, lost sight of the sun, and exhausted all other options.

Mule'll tell you: those fuckers break at the worst possible time.

Yeah, they're great. I take one on every trip I do, but it's a suppliment, not to be used as primary navigation. All electronics are vulnerable to failure.

Mule

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Mule Sat 26 Jul 2014 20:38:28 No.356478 Report

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>>356447
They're fine for navigation. A lot more convenient than a map/compass, for a quick "how far am i from ___".

I say not to rely on it for nav till you've used it, because there's tricks to using them, and without being familiar with what a GPS receiver is and does, and what it doesn't do, is pretty important.

>Be me, snowmobiling a few years back
>Riding buddy got a fancy-ass new GPS, showing it off before we headed out
>Stop in a meadow to play around for a bit before we headed back to the trucks
>Another group shows up, screws around in teh same meadow
>We start to head out, buddy and his wife follows the other group
>Wait at the edge of the meadow for a while, expecting him to realize his mistake
>Try to raise him on the radio, nothing
>Wait like 30 minutes
>Start heading back, stay on the trail, and take it slower than we would have
>Back at the trucks, buddy/wife still not there
>Try to raise him on the radio again, send him some texts... nothing
>A few of us get geared up again
>Just as we're getting ready to go back innawoods, buddy and wife show up
>Followed the GPS, and ended up going the wrong way for about 20 miles
>Wife pulled out paper map, said "we're over here, need to be back here, fuck you and your GPS i'm going this way"
>wife started going, buddy wisely followed
>Buddy was furious, his wife tried to calm him, but later that evening he admitted he'd have done the same thing

And yeah, one little crash is all it takes to destroy a GPS. They're tough, but...

Mule

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Mule Sat 26 Jul 2014 20:46:29 No.356480 Report

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Determining a heading is another tricky thing with GPS's. If you're still, they'll tell you to go some direction... but that won't always be right.

>Snowmobiling in feb
>marked a waypoint and shared that point with a couple others in our group (rescuing another rider's sled he had stuck'd the previous day)
>Stop on a hillside to get our bearings, figure out a way across the canyon
>Foggy, kinda socked in, snowing but not snowing hard, shitty visibility
>buddy takes out GPS, "They're that way"
>Me: "You sure?"
>Look at my GPS, look at bearing/range to the saved waypoint we were going for
>take out compass, dial in that heading, red in the shed, "That way, 1/4 mile. Your way takes us along the canyon."
>"You sure?" Yes, i'm sure. Start walking and tell me if we still need to go that way. Your GPS's compass isn't calibrated, and it doesn't have a GPS bearing since we've been stopped for 10 minutes."

GPS's are great tools, but they're not idiot-proof. Practice with it in town, flag a waypoint at the grocery store or other location you know and have it route you there, see where its faults are.

Been thinking about teaching a GPS orienteering class at the snow shows coming up... they have meeting rooms and some people sign up for hour-long courses on topics relating to snowmobiling.

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