Hello,

I have e-mailed the problem to their tech support but as I read here
and there that they never answer....

In the owner's manual p.26 Garmin gives the list of data that can be
displayed in text format through alphabetical order :
- ....
- POINTER
- POSITION
- SONAR
- SPEED
- ....

When you actually run through the scrolling list you find

- ....
- POINTER
- SONAR
- SPEED
- ....


So there is no way to display the current position coordinates on any
page except by entering Mark and then deleting the waypoint thus
created, which is stupid.
Has anyone met the problem ?

A GPS that cannot display the position , that sounds downright
incredible !!

I checked that I have the latest software version : 2.50

Friendly
Jean-Pierre TROLET

(Jean-Pierre Trolet) wrote in news:444b9b63.5696249
@news.wanadoo.fr:

A GPS that cannot display the position , that sounds downright
incredible !!


OOps....(c;

Well, I think that you are trying to display the position (lat/Long) in
one of fields of one or more pages, that is true? But I assume that you
have the position information (Lat/Long) at the statistics page, or at
last in the satellite/GPS page, or not?

On 23 Apr 2006 18:02:58 -0700, "Pascal" wrote:

Well, I think that you are trying to display the position (lat/Long) in
one of fields of one or more pages, that is true? But I assume that you
have the position information (Lat/Long) at the statistics page, or at
last in the satellite/GPS page, or not?


No , in none of those pages. I know it seems incredible but there is
an obvious inconsistency between the equipment and the owner's manual
, so I suspect a rough bug in the software !
Jean-Pierre

No , in none of those pages. I know it seems incredible but there is
an obvious inconsistency between the equipment and the owner's manual
, so I suspect a rough bug in the software !
Jean-Pierre

I have made download of the 172C manual and seems to me that the
software is very different from my 276C; normally, all Garmin units (
and I had about 12 of them) displays compulsory the Position in the
"Satellite Page" but not the 172C, which is very extraneous.

Anyway, page 26 says that one fields can be set to Position and if this
is not happen in your unit, shure is a software problem.

Jean Pierre,

I have noted the following NOTE in Page 26 of the manual:

NOTE: COMPASS, HIGHWAY, POSITION, and WATER TEMP .. are only available
on LARGE or HUGE sized Data Fields ..


The data field you is trying to setup to display of POSITION is Large
or HUGE sized?

Anyway, this appears to be thing of a crazy programmer ....

Pascal

I forget to say: in page 25 you have the option: SETUP PAGE LAYOUT
where you can specify less fields but with the "Large/Huge size"
instead of more fields with "small" size .

Perhaps if you setup the page layout to show less fields but with Large
size, you can select the POSITION in one of them.

Regards

Pascal

On 30 Apr 2006 17:31:56 -0700, "Pascal" wrote:

I forget to say: in page 25 you have the option: SETUP PAGE LAYOUT
where you can specify less fields but with the "Large/Huge size"
instead of more fields with "small" size .

Perhaps if you setup the page layout to show less fields but with Large
size, you can select the POSITION in one of them.

Regards

Pascal


Thank you very much Pascal. You are right . I had not seen that note .
You MUST select at least the large format to display the current
position. It works now.

Where are you from ?

Best regards.
Jean-Pierre

You can see my boat at: S12 48.645 W38 27.637 and my house at: S13
00.348 W38 27.465

Regards

Pascal

Garmin's always answered my emails within a couple of days.
In the meantime, did you use the Comm Tab of the Main Menu to set Com 1 and
Com 2 to NMEA In/NMEA Out?

"Jean-Pierre Trolet" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I have e-mailed the problem to their tech support but as I read here
and there that they never answer....

In the owner's manual p.26 Garmin gives the list of data that can be
displayed in text format through alphabetical order :
- ....
- POINTER
- POSITION
- SONAR
- SPEED
- ....

When you actually run through the scrolling list you find

- ....
- POINTER
- SONAR
- SPEED
- ....


So there is no way to display the current position coordinates on any
page except by entering Mark and then deleting the waypoint thus
created, which is stupid.
Has anyone met the problem ?

A GPS that cannot display the position , that sounds downright
incredible !!

I checked that I have the latest software version : 2.50

Friendly
Jean-Pierre TROLET